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Encounters with metadata
Angela Murphy
The Image Business
MILE
23 August 2007
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Personal encounters with classification and metadata
• Pre-digital age - hands-on picture research– Subject headings and simple arrangements
• Setting up a picture library– Importing metadata from databases– Digitised card indexes
• A major funded digitisation project (NMSI)– Thesaurii and subject hierarchies
• Encounters with academia (Courtauld)– - not all projects were the same
• Systems, metadata, and search engines
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Background
• 1980s: Picture editor and researcher
• 1990s Science & Society Picture Library
• ScM, NMPFT, NRM
• Time Out Group, The Labour Party, Getty Images
• Courtauld Institute
• University of Cambridge - museums, archives, libraries
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The pre-digital age
• Still applies to 90% of the world’s cultural image resources
• The hidden resources• NMPFT (National
Media Museum)• Courtauld Institute• Cambridge University
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NMSI - looking for taxonomiesNational Museum of Science and Industry
Science Museum LibraryB/w prints organised in large albums by collection subject
Limited colour transparencies in photo studio shoebox
Pictorial Collectionoriginal works of art and prints
Organised by subject
SSPL - Manchester Daily ExpressRedundant newspaper picture library
Complex subject headingsGeneral, Places, People
Science MuseumLondon
Photograph Collectionorganised by colleciton name
Photo StudioColour transparencies
organised by inconsitent subject headingsPosters - numerical order
National Railway MuseumYork
Photograph Collection3.5 million items,
including Daily Herald ArchiveNewspaper picture library (1920-1964)
3d CollectionsPhotographic Equipment
CinematographyTelevision etc
National Museum of Photography, Film & TelevisionBradford
NMSIBased at Science Museum
Collections Database (PRISM)New Trading Company
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Evolution of image metadata
• Pictures: negatives, prints, transparencies
• Need to find images
--- newspaper picture libraries, press and stock agencies
--- indexes of art history e.g. Witt Library, slide libraries, LoC image collections
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Working towards a subject hierarchy - analogue folder tabs
• Collection names• ScM Library Lists• Daily Herald• Daily ExpressAlso usedSHIC (Social History Index)Library of Congress Subject
Headings (not much use)
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Building on the hierarchy
Images of items in
3D Collections• Collection Names• Sub-headings
adapted from the library lists, in consultation with curators
Pictures from the
Pictorial & Photography Collections
• Adapted existing sub-headings
• Typed up all the Daily Herald and Daily Express sub-headings
• Adapted to fit into a subject hierarchy - years and years
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The NOF-funded project
• Opportunity to rationalise the subject headings
• Keywords, keywords, keywords
• Concepts, actions and emotions
• A new system
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Going digital
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The Home Page
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Global Menus
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Browsing Using Categories
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Main Subject Level
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The Sub-Category Level
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The Sub-Category Level
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Preview A Single Image
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Issues: Migrating to overseas partners
• Commercial partners did not want an xml export of metadata
• Several had never heard of xml
• Picture libraries receive thousands of image records every week from hundreds of different sources.
• Which xml standard ?
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Courtauld Institute
• NOF project team created powerful, sophisticated DAM
• Day-to-day activities not integrated into project
• Most staff prefer to use known, pre-existing, simple Access databases
• Locked-in images/ data
• Authority lists - ULAN and Witt
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Keywords and thesaurii
Keyword Search• “Select a keyword below to
initiate a new search”• Keywords: portraits, books,
finger rings, busts
• Keywording done via thesaurii• Ensures consistency, but not
designed to enable unmediated searches
• Poor results on common general searches
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The Bar at the Folies Bergere
• Keywords• bars (1) | beer (7) | bottles (13) |
dresses (108) | men (790) | mirrors (94) | necklaces (36) | oranges (2) | trapezes (1) | waitresses (2) | women (1356)
• Keyword Search• Select a keyword below to initiate a new
search• costume , textiles , furniture and furnishings ,
women , sport and leisure , people , people and organisations , business, commerce, industry , costume, jewellery and personal appearance , fine and applied arts, sculpture , making things , manufacturing , science and technology , visual works , domestic and social life, rites and customs , objects , coating (process) , processes , periods and styles , materials , nature , textile working , painting , waitresses , dresses , necklaces , bottles , trapezes , bars , beer , oranges , fruit , eating and drinking , botany , sports and games , jewellery , coatings (materials) , nations and peoples , paint , french , bar , canvas , containers , eating and drinking places , female people , food and drink , garments for the whole body , gymnastics , male people , mirror , oil paint , people by gender , people in service occupations , plant , vessels (containers) , plants , mirrors , men , paintings
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A slice of the metadata
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Cambridge DAM Project
• 8 core partners - all university departments• Libraries, museums, academics, technologists• Up to 30 potential partners• Broad range of issues - relating from the
sophisticated to the banal• Organise, assess, delete, rename, add information,
distribute, disseminate, earn…..• All involve improved use of metadata
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Cambridge DAM Project
• University of Cambridge Library– Royal Commonwealth Society– Darwin projects
• Fitzwilliam Museum• Scott Polar Research Institute• Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology• Dspace• CARET (Centre for Advanced Research in
Educational Technology)
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Analogue or digital ?
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IPTC headers
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How well does it work for us ?
• Important as a short term solution• Needs to be extended in several vital areas• Cultural use currently inconsistent
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IPTC - Mapped fields
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Tagging Objects
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Blobgects
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The role of funders
To make more precise demands of the recipients of their funds, in order to:
• Ensure digital preservation
• Ensure the rights information is harvested
• Ensure digital asset creation
• Pay more than lip service to the idea of sustainablity and re-purposing
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