Follow-up question:
Has anyone attempted to object-rich books for museum identifiers? I'd
think that you could take museum catalogs and, if you knew the
museum's id patterns, pick out object-to-page references in an OCR
pretty easily. Although this wouldn't get you "articles discussing the
Waraka Vase" it could give you at least one solid reference point
between bookland and objectland.
T
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Tim Spalding <tim_at_librarything.com> wrote:
> 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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