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Librarian cornered by images or How to index visual resources

IFLA Satellite Post-Conference Beyond libraries – subject metadata in the digital environment and semantic web 17-18 August 2012, Tallinn. Librarian cornered by images or How to index visual resources. Wanda Klenczon, Paweł Rygiel The National Library of Poland.

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Librarian cornered by images or How to index visual resources

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  1. IFLA Satellite Post-Conference Beyond libraries – subject metadata in the digital environment and semantic web 17-18 August 2012, Tallinn Librarian cornered by images orHow to index visual resources Wanda Klenczon, Paweł Rygiel The National Library of Poland

  2. „Images, that have interfered in the human life and human civilizations, still evade all attempts at being classified or standardized. If they constitute a language, it is deprived of the established vocabulary and syntax; if they build a system, it is an extremely mutable system, where nothing is identically repeated”. Mieczysław Porębski, Ikonosfera, Warszawa 1972, s. 9.

  3. Descriptive metadata • object name, • creator, • dating, culture, epoch or art movement, • formal aspects of the object • medium, technique, material… • category or type of document etc. but only subject description really involves transforming visual code into written code.

  4. What does it mean “subject of an image”?

  5. Panofsky/Shatfordmatrix Source: L. H. Armitage, P. G. B. Enser: Analysis of user need in image archives. “Journal of InformationScience”, 1997, 23(4), pp. 287–299.

  6. Isness, ofness, aboutness • Isness = what the resource IS often is close to genre/form terms (may be physical or intrinsic, e. g. drawing, albumen print, poster, etc.) • Ofness=the elements that a picture consists OF • Aboutness = what is conveyed in a document, what it is ABOUT depends on the interpretation of the set themes, motifs, actions and events in a work

  7. Source: Wikimedia Commons Picture by de:Benutzer:Fb78. License: {{cc-by-sa-2.0-de}}

  8. Seeing Standards: Visualization of the Metadata Universe Source: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/

  9. Source: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/

  10. Metadata standards and cataloging rules(examples) • Cataloging Cultural Objects(CCO) • Categories for the Description of Works of Art(CDWA) • CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model(CIDOC CRM) • International Standard Bibliographic Description(ISBD) • Dublin Core (DC) • MARC Standards • ….

  11. Indexing tools (examples) • Getty Vocabulaires: • Union List of Artist Names(ULAN) • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names(TGN) • Cultural Objects Name Authority(CONA) • Art & Architecture Thesaurus(AAT) • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials(TGM) • Library of Congress Subject Headings(LCSH) • Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié(RAMEAU) • Iconclass • …. NAMES SUBJECT

  12. LCSH Not specified TGM

  13. LCSH Not specified TGM

  14. TGM

  15. uncontrolled TGM

  16. 1001_ |a Roberti, Ercole de',  |d d. 1496,  |e artist,  |e attributed name. 24510 |a [Sketches for Christ taken prisoner; Judas kiss]  |h [graphic]. 655_7 |a Ink drawings  |x Italian  |y 1473-1496.  |2 gmgpc TGM

  17. Images digitization in Poland

  18. Images cataloging in Poland • MARC21 Bibliographic – adaption for stillimages (libraries) • ISBD (libraries) • Dublin Core (most of culturalheritageinstitutions) • CCO • indexing tools and practices vary from institution to another

  19. Basket of Fruit (c.1599) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana Still life figs Oil on canvas grapes peach Italian painting apple Fruits insect-predated fruits Wicker basket Archips argyospita etc., etc…

  20. Eating and drinking spaces

  21. IS,OF, ABOUT to MARC 21 mapping(proposal)

  22. Image description – NL of Poland • 600-651 subject terms (controlled vocabulary) • overall scope of the document • 655 genre/form terms(controlled vocabulary) • type of document, technique, object genre • 653 additional subject access points(both controlled and uncontrolled terms) • secondary, subordinated or less important content elements • 520 note/summary (free-text) • meaning, purpose or function

  23. Odwieziony we śnie na Itakę / Stanisław Hiszpański 520 Odysseus, fast asleep in a hidden harbor on Ithaka. Athena is keeping vigil over him. In background the sea and an ship, probably Phaeacian. 600 Odysseus 653 Homerus. Odusseia; Athena; Ithaka; sea; ship; harbor; man asleep; Greek mythology; Greek goddesse; gorgoneion 655 Illustration 655 Watercolour 655 Coloured drawing

  24. Haquet et traîneau de brasseur / Jean Victor Adam • This print is probably a part of a larger series entitled 'Voitures'. At center of composition, a brewer's dray and sledge loaded with barrels; at right, in front of a café with an awning, a man on horseback and a man holding a barrel; beyond at left, buildings and a small crowd of soldiers; • 653 road; horses; coffeehouse; barrel; delivery; awning; carriage • 655 Genre scene • 655 Lithograph • 655 Print

  25. [Bukiet kwiatów] / Helena Drzewiecka • 650 Flowers • pansy; iris; lily; ancolie; rose; bouquet • 655 Gouache • 655 Painting

  26. … doomed failure? „What we really expect in a work of art is a certain personal element – we expect artist to have, if not a distinguished mind, at least a distinguished sensibility. We expect him to reveal something to us that is original – a unique and private vision of the world.” Herbert Read, Meaning of Art, London 1968, p. 27

  27. Thank you for your attention! Wanda Klenczon w.klenczon@bn.org.pl Paweł Rygiel p.rygiel@bn.org.pl

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