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Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
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Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------

Hi Nicole,

I have worked on this for a number of institutions using Piction. There are a number of ways to approach this depending on the structure on your implementation. The best way I have figured out to utilize Piction is to create different collections for different asset types (collection/events/exhibitions/publications) because you have the ability to create different metadata fields specific to each collection, with a handfull of fields that can span all collections for universal search.

Let me know if that helps or makes sense.

 
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Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist
New York NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2015 02:52 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------

Hi Heidi,

Thanks for your input! I remember listening to a webinar you did a while back about organizing and storing files that was very helpful :)

We've already established separate collections and metadata schemas for our non-collections and collections assets within Piction. However, what I'm looking for is more in regards to standard terminologies and controlled vocabularies for describing and keywording those non-collections assets. I've started creating a "keyword dictionary" for our non-collections in Excel, but was hoping there might be a resource available so I don't have to go reinventing the wheel.

Thanks!
------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 11:11 AM
From: Heidi Quicksilver
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi Nicole,

I have worked on this for a number of institutions using Piction. There are a number of ways to approach this depending on the structure on your implementation. The best way I have figured out to utilize Piction is to create different collections for different asset types (collection/events/exhibitions/publications) because you have the ability to create different metadata fields specific to each collection, with a handfull of fields that can span all collections for universal search.

Let me know if that helps or makes sense.

 
------------------------------
Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist
New York NY
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2015 02:52 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------

Hi Heidi,

Thanks for your input! I remember listening to a webinar you did a while back about organizing and storing files that was very helpful :)

We've already established separate collections and metadata schemas for our non-collections and collections assets within Piction. However, what I'm looking for is more in regards to standard terminologies and controlled vocabularies for describing and keywording those non-collections assets. I've started creating a "keyword dictionary" for our non-collections in Excel, but was hoping there might be a resource available so I don't have to go reinventing the wheel.

Thanks!
------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 11:11 AM
From: Heidi Quicksilver
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi Nicole,

I have worked on this for a number of institutions using Piction. There are a number of ways to approach this depending on the structure on your implementation. The best way I have figured out to utilize Piction is to create different collections for different asset types (collection/events/exhibitions/publications) because you have the ability to create different metadata fields specific to each collection, with a handfull of fields that can span all collections for universal search.

Let me know if that helps or makes sense.

 
------------------------------
Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist
New York NY
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2015 02:52 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------

Might also be a great question to post to the DamMuse user group...

dammuse-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
Cleveland OH
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 04:15 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi Heidi,

Thanks for your input! I remember listening to a webinar you did a while back about organizing and storing files that was very helpful :)

We've already established separate collections and metadata schemas for our non-collections and collections assets within Piction. However, what I'm looking for is more in regards to standard terminologies and controlled vocabularies for describing and keywording those non-collections assets. I've started creating a "keyword dictionary" for our non-collections in Excel, but was hoping there might be a resource available so I don't have to go reinventing the wheel.

Thanks!
------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 11:11 AM
From: Heidi Quicksilver
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi Nicole,

I have worked on this for a number of institutions using Piction. There are a number of ways to approach this depending on the structure on your implementation. The best way I have figured out to utilize Piction is to create different collections for different asset types (collection/events/exhibitions/publications) because you have the ability to create different metadata fields specific to each collection, with a handfull of fields that can span all collections for universal search.

Let me know if that helps or makes sense.

 
------------------------------
Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist
New York NY
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2015 02:52 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------

Great, thanks! I'll check it out!

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Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 05:27 PM
From: Heidi Quicksilver
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Might also be a great question to post to the DamMuse user group...

dammuse-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

------------------------------
Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
Cleveland OH
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 04:15 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi Heidi,

Thanks for your input! I remember listening to a webinar you did a while back about organizing and storing files that was very helpful :)

We've already established separate collections and metadata schemas for our non-collections and collections assets within Piction. However, what I'm looking for is more in regards to standard terminologies and controlled vocabularies for describing and keywording those non-collections assets. I've started creating a "keyword dictionary" for our non-collections in Excel, but was hoping there might be a resource available so I don't have to go reinventing the wheel.

Thanks!
------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-14-2015 11:11 AM
From: Heidi Quicksilver
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi Nicole,

I have worked on this for a number of institutions using Piction. There are a number of ways to approach this depending on the structure on your implementation. The best way I have figured out to utilize Piction is to create different collections for different asset types (collection/events/exhibitions/publications) because you have the ability to create different metadata fields specific to each collection, with a handfull of fields that can span all collections for universal search.

Let me know if that helps or makes sense.

 
------------------------------
Heidi Quicksilver
Digital Asset Management Specialist
New York NY
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2015 02:52 PM
From: Nicole Kroger
Subject: Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies

Hi all,

I am working to establish our metadata standards for our digital asset management. We are using Piction for our DAM and are cataloging both collections images as well as non-collections photography (event images, archival images, etc.). While the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Library of Congress, etc. have been helpful for our permanent collections, I am wondering if anyone has experience with or advice to give on tagging non-collections imagery with controlled vocabularies. Have you created your own vocabularies to use for this type of media or used a stock photography site like Corbis as a starting point?

Thanks in advance for your help!

------------------------------
Nicole Kroger
Web & Digital Media Manager
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati OH
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