Metadata Obscura: Refocusing digital collections through the lens of art history
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LEVAR WEGNER, Alia and HILLES, Stefanie (2019) Metadata Obscura: Refocusing digital collections through the lens of art history. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for change in Session 206 - Art Libraries with Subject Analysis and Access.
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Metadata Obscura: Refocusing digital collections through the lens of art history
Art librarians in academic libraries often rely on generalists in metadata and digital collections departments to accurately describe visual collections. When these partnerships are successful, students and researchers in art disciplines can use their subject training to discover and contextualize visual resources. However, art researchers may experience disruption and disconnection in their research when they encounter visual collections that were digitized without proper attention to disciplinary expectations. This is especially important in academic libraries, whose primary mission is to support students and faculty, and where university users are inherently subject specific in their research. This paper discusses the decisions and workflows implemented to revise a popular digital collection of 19th and 20th-century trade cards held at the Walter Havighurst Special Collections at Miami University. By aligning subject metadata with the methodologies of art history, librarians improved the accessibility and discoverability of these visual materials for art researchers.Metadata Obscura: reorientando las colecciones digitales a través de la perspectiva de la Historia del Arte
Los bibliotecarios de Arte en las bibliotecas académicas a menudo confían en los metadatos y en los departamentos de colecciones digitales para describir correctamente las colecciones visuales. Cuando esta colaboración es satisfactoria, los estudiantes e investigadores de disciplinas artísticas pueden emplear su formación en la materia para descubrir y contextualizar visualmente los recursos. Sin embargo, los investigadores del Arte pueden experimentar malestar y desconexión durante sus investigaciones cuando se encuentran con colecciones visuales que fueron digitalizadas sin una atención adecuada a las expectativas disciplinarias. Esto es especialmente importante en las bibliotecas académicas, cuya misión principal es dar apoyo a los estudiantes y miembros del claustro y en las que los usuarios universitarios son intrínsecamente una materia específica en su investigación. Este trabajo trata las decisiones y los flujos de trabajo que se implementaron al revisar una conocida colección digital de tarjetas comerciales de los siglos XIX y XX conservada en la Walter Havighurst Special Collections en la Miami University. Para alinear los metadatos de materia con las metodologías de la Historia del Arte, los bibliotecarios mejoraron la accesibilidad y la capacidad de descubrimiento de esos materiales visuales para los investigadores del Arte.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | |||||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for changeSession 206 - Libraries, Archives and Museums in Dialogue - Art Libraries with Subject Analysis and Access |
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Divisions: | Division 1 Library Types > Art Libraries Section Division 3 Library Services > Subject Analysis and Access |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Digital collections, metadata | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2019 14:39 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2019 10:02 | |||||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/2491 |
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