Hi Trina and David:
This is my project for Digital Application for Collection Management. Thanks.
Best Jim
http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/jxu/viewall.php
http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/jxu/insert.php
http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/jxu/phpmyadmin
Metadata is information that describes other information. Metadata allows information to be codified and described in standardised ways. Metadata is useful in that it allows information to be searched for and retrieved via reference to standard descriptors and metadata is managed within systems of storage, or for purposes of processing or manipulation
There are different kinds of objects ( books, video, photographs…) and information form ( history, cultural, academic…), and different institution may also have different missions and collecting policy and also different needs from variety of group of people.
Data is established and it should be interoperable so that institutions can share the information.
A metadata scheme is the set of descriptor types available to be applied to information. Numerous standard schemes have been developed to address specific information use and management needs. These standards have emerged from the needs of specific interest groups to standardise how they classify information.
One of the most prominent general standards is the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, which looks to define some basic general attributes of information – attributes essentially which can apply to all information, such as Title, Creator, Subject, Description – and to set some rules for using them. Elements of the Dublin Core are frequently incorporated in other standards, which have a particular instead of general focus, for example the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata Standard, which is designed to accommodate descriptors relating to the areas of activity associated with government in Australia.
This are other web sources I used in my project.
www.niso.org/framework/framework2.pdf
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf
For cataloguing:
All the pictures I have are mainly for file for health care studies, and they are from different sources of news agencies and institutions. As for most of documentary pictures, these are the essential parts like the title, and photographer, time, medium and object.
Most of the pictures do not mention the photographer’s name or nationality. A lot of them are from news agency like Reuters or unprofessional photographer of the institution.
All objects are photographer with technology of gelatin silver print.
As for other category:
1. Subject topic is very important, for it may show the inventors, leading figures in certain fields.
2. Subject content deals with the certain filed the pictures cover, like the black disease, in-vitro fertilization, etc.
3. Subject location and corporation concern the names and places of the institutions, clinics, and hospitals, etc.
4. Caption on the recto is important background information.
5. Inscription, most of them on verso of the pictures, is also important sources of the fields and provinces.
6. Image size and condition, I used cm for measurement and a general description of the condition for preservation, for it is not arts pictures, I did no give too much details of the condition, except those of great importance and need special treatment.
7. Copy right is important to protect the right of the copy right owner and also your self.
