2. The Organization Special Collections and Archives Visual Resource Collection Unit Head periodic adds terms other jobs review of as needed as Unit Head database Catalogers
3. The Collection 350,000 35mm slides 8,000 glass lantern slides Purpose: “Slides and digital images in support of teaching and research” Interdisciplinary: Art History, Studio Art, General History, Science, Anthropology, etc. Open to all students and faculty
4. The Story It was the late 60s A perfect match: Wendell W. Simons Luraine C. Tansey A Slide Classification System for the Interdisciplinary Collections of Slides and Pictures
5. Encoding system with a call number N 750 A S031 S L M678 B B --- ----- -- -- ------ --- --- ------- --- --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Punch cards CC Flickrbootload
6. Second stage of the classification system migration to online Trigger: Mainframe PCs Golden opportunity 3 catalogers, each with about 10 years experience collaborated to adapt existing system to relational database. Worked with programmer. Took < 1 year It was hard, but it was great to work as a team!
7. Freedom from the 81 char. punch cards Took opportunity to standardize terms Difficult because AAT not published yet Started with resources like: LCSH, Gazeteers, and TGM Eventually used LCSH, AAT for subjects but retained many Local Terms
8. Things to Love Relational database makes global changes easy In slide record, all are separately defined fields resulting in highly controllable searching
10. Faceted Classification System(front end view) Artists People Ethnic group Subjects Sites Countries Museums Styles and Periods Materials and Techniques Faculty/course list
11. with HierarchiesExample: Subject Types Subject Types – 4 deep - Subjects - Animals – Birds - Cranes - Plants - Corn - Objects - Arms and armor - Swords - Household utensils - Cups - Building types - Agricultural buildings - Barns - Public buildings - Fire stations
13. Notes Includes field for notes for catalogers Ex. Use Adolescence for Teen-age; search also under Puberty No RTs or Entry Vocabulary for users, but offers Keyword Search, Category Browse, and Search Form Local needs taken into account. Example: AAT – Gates local – Gates and Gateways
15. Evolving system As the categories grow and become unwieldy, decisions are made about the hierarchies. Example: Animals Trend toward consolidation of resources as evidenced through UC Shared Collections in ARTstor
19. What’s Next? Odd time. Last year Art History made only 150 slides. Movement toward born digital and shared online collections Selecting and preparing records to upload to ARTstor
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One was the imaginative one, the other was the methodical, meticulous one. They made a great pair.She showed me a very well worn copy of the book.This was her “Bible” when she first started cataloging slides.
Numbers/letters have meaning according to their ordinal position.Architecture, building type, time period, materials, etc.
Second stage of the classification system.Univ getting rid of the mainframe/punch cards.Migration to online.Saw it as golden opportunity to upgrade and refine the system.
Subject Type > Building types > Public buildings > Fire stationsSimilar hierarchies in Geography and Tribes/People
