Just to muddy the waters on this thread even further, when I catalogue
photographs for our Historic Photograph and Print Collection, I don't give
an image only 1 classification but assign as many classifications as are
applicable to the image. A street scene that shows an identifiable type of
car passing in front of a pub and butcher's shop for instance, would be
given:
environment and buildings
trade & innkeeper
trade & butcher
transport & road & vehicles
This works for us as the programme we use for cataloguing can duplicate the
classification field. I know that other museums I have advised had many long
and tortuous discussions over which classification a particular image should
be given and imagine the joy when learning they could have more than one.
The classification list we have, The Wiltshire Standard, is one that has
been built over many years from the collections of museums in Wiltshire. If
you would like a copy I can email one off list.
Good luck
Paul Connell
Museums Officer (Documentation)
Corporate and Library Services
Wiltshire County Council
tel: 01225 713738
fax: 01225 713515
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