Subject Access to a Multilingual Museum Database

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Subject Access to a Multilingual Museum Database A Step-by-Step Approach to the Digitization Process

Allison Siffre Guedalia Kupietzky

Book Code: LU4442

ISBN: 1-59158-444-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-444-5

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180 pages

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Publication: 10/30/2007

List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

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Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 7 x 10

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Series Title: Third Millennium Cataloging

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

LC Card Number: 2007013543

LCC Class: AM139

Dewey Class: 069

PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf	LU Textbook Catalog Fall 2007.pdf


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