laura williams, stanford university libraries [email protected] saa metadata and digital...
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Laura Williams, Stanford University [email protected] Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable MeetingSan Diego, California 2012
Streamlining Digital Image Description Through Batch Metadata Application
In a Flash
Challenges
▪ Large digitized and born-digital image collections
▪ Limited staff time and resources
Is there a tool that will allow us to add descriptive
metadata quickly and efficiently?
Functional Requirements
▪ add metadata to digitized and born-digital images
Functional Requirements
▪ add metadata to digitized and born-digital images
▪ bulk add metadata for up to thousands of images
Functional Requirements
▪ add metadata to digitized and born-digital images
▪ bulk add metadata for up to thousands of images
▪ view images together with metadata
Functional Requirements
▪ add metadata to digitized and born-digital images
▪ bulk add metadata for up to thousands of images
▪ view images together with metadata
▪ add flat or hierarchical metadata
Functional Requirements
▪ add metadata to digitized and born-digital images
▪ bulk add metadata for up to thousands of images
▪ view images together with metadata
▪ add flat or hierarchical metadata
▪ customize metadata fields
Functional Requirements
▪ add metadata to digitized and born-digital images
▪ bulk add metadata for up to thousands of images
▪ view images together with metadata
▪ add flat or hierarchical metadata
▪ customize metadata fields
▪ export metadata in widely-used format
What is IPTC Core?
▪ Metadata standard developed by the International Press
Telecommunications Committee
▪ Standard among professional photographers
▪ Supported by a wide variety of image software (http
://www.iptc.org/site/Photo_Metadata/Software_list/)
Photo Mechanic
▪ Professional photographers routinely add bulk metadata
▪ Photo Mechanic recommended by former news
photographer on staff
▪ Affordable
Description
▪ Title
▪ Photographer
▪ Unique ID
▪ Keywords
▪ Repository
▪ Location
▪ Format
▪ Date
▪ Type
▪ Collection
Conclusions
▪ IPTC Core
· Awareness
· Workflow integration
▪ Borrowing tools from
beyond archival borders
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version='1.0'><key>IPTC Fields</key> <dict> <key>keywords</key> <string>LOCATION | Series 15 | Box 10 | Folder 4, COLLECTION | Buckminster Fuller papers, 1920-
1983, FORMAT | photographs, color transparencies, REPOSITORY | Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, TYPE | still image</string>
<key>title</key> <string>Slides, IV A Geoscope Projects (Cornell Dome, World Game model, model of UN geoscope)
</string> <key>transmission_reference</key> <string>M1090_S15_B10_F04_0001</string> <key>copyright</key> <string>Property rights reside with the repository. Intellectual rights to the images reside
with the creators of the images or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Department of Special Collections.
</string> </dict>
XML Export from Photo Mechanic
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><iptc_report> <relatedItem type="host"> <titleInfo><title> Buckminster Fuller papers, 1920-1983</title></titleInfo> <typeOfResource collection="yes"/> </relatedItem> <physicalDescription><form> photographs, color transparencies</form></physicalDescription> <relatedItem type="host"> <location>
<physicalLocation type="location"> Series 15 | Box 1 | Folder 1</physicalLocation></location>
</relatedItem> <location> <physicalLocation type="repository"> Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and Stanford University Archives. </physicalLocation> </location> <typeOfResource> still image</typeOfResource> <title><titleInfo type="main">Slides, IA, Geodesic Domes [1 of 2]</titleInfo></title> <identifier type="local" displayLabel="Image ID">M1090_S15_B01_F01_0001</identifier> <accessCondition>Property rights reside with the repository. Intellectual rights to the images reside
with the creators of the images or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.</accessCondition>
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