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Subject Access to a Multilingual Museum Database A Step-by-Step Approach to the Digitization Process
Dr. Allison Siffre Guedalia Kupietzky
ISBN: 1-59158-444-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-444-5
180 pages
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 10/30/2007
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Discount Price: $22.50 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "This book contains excellent information to assist librarians in serving patrons seeking help with their genealogical or family history research. . . . This work is recommended for all reference collections, with circulating copies for library patrons. Libraries should provide free personal copes for each reference librarian to mark up for themselves for use during consultations with genealogical or family history patrons."
    —ARBA     3/1/2009
Description: Translating visual works into verbal form is clearly a formidable task. While libraries have a century of cooperative cataloguing behind them, museums and other cultural institutions have tended to go their separate ways, believing the objects in their collections are unique. Dr. Kupietzky has put together a guide for digitizing encyclopedic, multilingual museums that promises to both standardize and streamline the process.
Part I provides a review of the literature and of the problems concerning methods used in the computerization of museums. Part II offers practical guidelines for mono- or multilingual museums seeking to implement a database to aid in cataloguing their holdings. A six-step process of computerizing museum collections (the SAGE-K method) was developed to facilitate the application of these ideas by all museums and enable them to achieve the goal of digitization.
Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
    BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
    THE CHALLENGES
    THE DIGITIZATION PROCESS: THE SAGE-K PROCESS OF COMPUTERIZING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
    STEP 1: DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MUSEUM
    STEP 2: CHOOSING A DATABASE SYSTEM
    STEP 3: PRELUDE TO THE COMPUTERIZATION PROJECT
    STEP 4: ANALYZING NEEDS
    STEP 5: STANDARDIZING DATA IN THE MOST EFFICIENT MANNER - IMAGE, TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA
    STEP 6: RUNNING A PILOT FOR THE FULL PROJECT
    THE DAY AFTER THE SIX-STEP PROCESS
    PUBLICATION AND COPYRIGHTS
    CONCLUSION
    APPENDICES
About the Author: Dr. Allison Siffre Guedalia Kupietzky is Collections Database Manager for the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
LCC Class: 69
PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Textbook Catalog Fall 2007.pdf
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