I'm going to turn our questions into my own questions. This topic has
long been in the back of my mind, and talking to a slew of art-museum
librarians at CIL got me thinking.
1. Do any records cross-walk between items and the books that might
refer to them? For example, auction catalog X records sale of museum's
vase Y.
2. Are there any solid unique identifiers that can be used to do that?
For example, if LibraryThing added social cataloging to link books to
art objects, how would it do it—by museum accession number? Is there
any overarching system for at least some objects, like an ISBN?
(Speaking of which, does anyone in the museum world follow Etsy and
its attempt to create fixed unique identifiers for hand-made objects?)
3. Are there crosswalks—no doubt very partial—between something like
LCSH and ICONCLASS or the Art and Architecture Thesaurus?
Tim
>
> Specifically,
>
> 1. Do you have or know of next-gen catalogs that include records of art
> objects or their digital surrogates?
> a. are these local images or incorporated from another site or system
> (Flickr, Luna, ARTstor)
> b. have you performed usability studies of the catalog that incorporated
> these objects?
>
> 2. If not, what are the major obstacles or technological limitations for
> including these records or the digital surrogates themselves in next
> generation catalogs at this time?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for sharing your time and thoughts.
>
> Megan Macken
>
>
>
> . . . . . .
> Megan Macken
> Assistant Director, Visual Resources Collection
> University of Chicago Department of Art History
> 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637
> 773.702.0261 | mmacken_at_uchicago.edu
>
> Visit our blog at http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc
>
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Received on Fri Apr 18 2008 - 10:27:04 EDT