4th July 2006
At the last journal club we discussed using the session as a "springboard" to deeper learning. It seemed from the discussion that day, that there was a general need to find information to assist us to organise in-depth information about items within our collection. I have been requested to find further reading. Unfortunately I have not found the "definitive" further article to discuss at tomorrow's journal club, Tuesday July 4, rather I have got myself into the world of metadata. There is no clearly defined way to proceed on this, but the following articles help.
First I went looking for a library which has organised "unusual" resources and had a requirement for information far more in-depth than the normal bibliographic record within most cataloguing systems.Topper, Joby Library History Nov 2004: 20(3); 183-206 Saved from oblivion: the organisation and management of the Douce Collection at the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology at Oxford. The article is available as full text from EbscoHost and describes a very unusual research collection, where far more detail is required on the items than the detail offered by the usual bibliographic type record. (I have a copy if you would like to read)
The other useful article that I found is one titled Provenance-Aware Storage Systems which is on the web at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/usenix06-pass/paper.htmlThe article discusses the advantages of retaining provenance data within the storage system rather than as separate manual annotations or in a separately administered database.I have not managed to track down the definitive person in our museum to discuss their collections management system, but the following link http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Standards/metadata_intro.html will give you an idea of what a typical museum collection management system has to do.
Outcome: Options paper to be prepared
Next meeting: Tuesday 18th July 2006 Speaker's Corner 9-10 am
Article: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341888.htmlMaking "E" Visible [Library Journal]
First I went looking for a library which has organised "unusual" resources and had a requirement for information far more in-depth than the normal bibliographic record within most cataloguing systems.Topper, Joby Library History Nov 2004: 20(3); 183-206 Saved from oblivion: the organisation and management of the Douce Collection at the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology at Oxford. The article is available as full text from EbscoHost and describes a very unusual research collection, where far more detail is required on the items than the detail offered by the usual bibliographic type record. (I have a copy if you would like to read)
The other useful article that I found is one titled Provenance-Aware Storage Systems which is on the web at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/usenix06-pass/paper.htmlThe article discusses the advantages of retaining provenance data within the storage system rather than as separate manual annotations or in a separately administered database.I have not managed to track down the definitive person in our museum to discuss their collections management system, but the following link http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Standards/metadata_intro.html will give you an idea of what a typical museum collection management system has to do.
Outcome: Options paper to be prepared
Next meeting: Tuesday 18th July 2006 Speaker's Corner 9-10 am
Article: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341888.htmlMaking "E" Visible [Library Journal]
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