Tim -- not quite what you are getting at, but touching tangentially on a
few of your questions, you might want to contact the folks at CLIMB
(Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building):
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~climb/
They are mining exhibition catalogs & such for textual data that could
be mapped to AAT subject terms. I don't know if they're working with
identifiers or not.
Erin Stalberg
Head, Metadata and Cataloging
North Carolina State University Libraries
erin_stalberg_at_ncsu.edu
919.515.5696
> 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
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