Karen Coyle wrote:
> I feel like we're talking at cross purposes, so let me reduce this to
> basics. Photo of mountain by Ansel Adams has been digitized by Karen Coyle
> for California Digital Library.
>
> 1) Can I create metadata under 1:1 that gives the creator as Ansel Adams?
> If I do and I also desire to include information about how it came to be
> digitized, what field does Karen Coyle go into?
IMHO, the photo (or even the negative it was generated from) are stored
somewhere, like Ansel Adams' personal collection/estate. The owner of this
collection would contribute the metadata for the original photo. Something
like (pardon my ignorance):
DC.Name = "Photo of Mt. Whatsitsname"
DC.Creator = "Adams, Ansel"
DC.Subject = "Mountain, Mt. Whatsitsname, Landscape, Sunset"
DC.Format = "image"
DC.Type = "Kodak Photopaper XYZ, 28cm by 18cm"
> 2) Can I create metadata under 1:1 that gives the creator as Karen Coyle?
> If I do and I also desire to include the creator of the photograph for
> purposes of discovery, what field does Ansel Adams go into?
IMHO, the scanned image would be part of Karen's collection (or the Library's
collection), with metadata allocated something like the following:
DC.Name = "Image of Mt. Whatsitsname"
DC.Creator = "Coyle, Karen"
DC.Contributor = "California Digital Library"
DC.Contributor = "Adams, Ansel"
DC.Subject = "Mountain, Mt. Whatsitsname, Landscape, Sunset"
DC.Format = "image"
DC.Type = "image/jpeg"
DC.Relation = "(IsFormatOf) Photo of Mt. Whatsitsname - Adams, Ansel"
IMHO, the subjects of both resources are the same. If someone's actually
looking for pictures by Ansel Adams by selecting DC.Creator = "Ansel, Adams",
they'll get the first one. If they decide to look for copies of that photo
that they can look at right now, they might click a button on the search
interface labelled "Find Related", which automates the search for
"DC.Relation <contains> Photo of Mt. Whatsitsname - Adams, Ansel". If they're
just looking for images in some format of Mt. Whatsitsname, or just generic
sunset landscapes, they'll get both records.
Which brings up the interesting issue of ... how do we apply unique names to
resources? But that's a different topic.
I list Ansel as a contributor to the scanned image, because the scanned image
wouldn't have been possible without his (significant) contribution.
The rest of the DC Metadata set (Location, Rights, et al) refer specifically
to the scanned image of the photo. At this point in time, in my role as
cataloguer, I'll not write up the extra two Metadata records for the negative
and the physical object, since they're not resources under my control. IMHO,
the physical object is under the "control" of the Government surveyor. If the
Government surveyor had a metadata set describing this significant peak, then
the "owner" of the negative would prepare a metadata set for the negative,
including the physical object as a relation. I (in my role as "owner" of the
photo) would include a link to the negative. Then the chain of links would be
complete.
Regards,
Alex
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Alex Satrapa
tSA Consulting Group Pty Ltd.
Canberra, Australia
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