I catalogued one particular Georgian pamphlet in the days-before-Twitter, so we used old-fashioned networking-via-email to get some help with the transliteration (thanks SOAS and SSEES!). However, we've just got another one (!), and if we do need a hand, then asking on Twitter is a great idea to try.
Debbie
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Has anyone used social media to identify items or obtain additional metadata about an item? I can imagine this being particularly useful in cataloguing archive or rare material (like Debbie's Georgian pamphlets!)
Wendy
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Hello,
(Sorry: I was at a meeting and am late to the party :-))
I think a twitter marathon is a _brilliant_ idea. It would be great to show some of the obscure things we catalogue (Georgian pamphlets anyone?
)and some of the theoretical issues we wrestle with while classifying.
A 24 hour one sounds particularly great, as it would be interesting to see similarities or differences as the marathon moved around the world!
Debbie
(Or, @debbieleecat)
Deborah Lee
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Book Library
Courtauld Institute of Art
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Now on at The Courtauld Gallery:
Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel
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Agreed! A Twitter Cataloguing Marathon is a lovely idea! :)
On 28/03/2012 11:33, Celine Carty wrote:
> I *love* the idea of a Twitter marathon - maybe giving people a
designated hour or half-hour in which to tweet what they have just catalogued or are about to catalogue. Would be really interesting and, if it was done through HVCats, we could even try to cover most of a 24 hour period with all our colleagues in the US and elsewhere abroad....
hm, off to put my thinking cap on!
>
> Celine
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