Carleton Image Collection OCLC/CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting October 16, 2006

Search Images Created by Albert Bierstadt, An Artist images from California Images 5 images from McKinsey Collection 1 from Visual Resources Collection

Challenge #1 Image Quality Metadata Standards : VRA Core version 3.0 (Visual Resources Association) Authority Control Library of Congress Authorities (LC) Union List of Artists Names (ULAN)

Examples of Artists’ Names LC Name Entry : Brown, Joan  Brown, Joan,  Brown, Joan, ULAN Artist Name: Brown, Joan ( ) LC Name Entry : Keith, William, ULAN Artist Name: Keith, William ( )

Challenges (continuing) Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) AAT Standard Work type i.e. collage, etching, etchings Media i.e. architecture Culture i.e. American, French Local practice Period i.e. 19th century, 20th century Era/Decade i.e. 1880s or , 1920s or Ethnic features i.e. Chinese, Indian, Mexican

Controlled Vocabulary - Keyword Search Relevancy Precision Accuracy Who cares !

2004 – ARTstor Pilot Project Summer of 2005 – CONTENTdm Summer of 2006 – 4 sub-collections created History of Digital Imaging for Art and Art History

Making the transition A classroom image lecture tool that is easier to use than slides Content (an entire slide collection) A faculty ready to jump on the digital bandwagon

Challenge #2 Delivery Mechanism and Presentation Tool CONTENTdm PowerPoint Plug in Offline Image Viewer (OIV)  Zooming features Carleton develops Save Zip feature for CONTENTdm