Cataloging Images for Digital Collections

Jeffrey Sowder, Columbia University

What is metadata?

• Object/Surrogate
• Image needs text
• Identification
• Location
• Access
• Description

DIAP metadata model

Uniform Title:
Cappella Pazzi (Santa Croce (Church : Florence, Italy))

Title:
Florence, Pazzi Chapel [graphic] / by Brunelleschi.

Publication Data:
[between 1990 and 1992]

Physical Description Of Original:
3 slides : col. ; 35 mm.

Public Note:
Provenance:Gift of Joseph Connors.

DIAP image access & description

Generic Subject:Chapels. aat 

Genre/Form:  Exterior views. aat

Added Creator:Brunelleschi, Filippo, 1377-1446. 

Slides 1. 

Exterior view of facade NYDA.9293.007.00031. AI-F662.EP299.B.  DIAPimage.

DIAP Project

• RLIN Archival records
• Original and Surrogate
• Provisional 989 field
• Describes multiple versions of images
• Original image (slides, photographic prints)
• Intermediates reproduction (35mm film)
• Digital version (multiple resolutions)

Digital Image Workflow

• Art Humanities Core
• Faculty slides
• Kodak Photo CD
• 20th Century Architecture
• Saskia, LTD

20th Century Architecture model

 100:0 : |a Sullivan, Louis H., |d 1856-1924.  

 245:10: |aSchlesinger-Mayer Department Store [Carson Pirie Scott Building]

 (Chicago, Ill.) |h [slide].

 260:   : |c 1898-1903.   

 300:  : |a 4 slides : |b col.  

 508:  : |a Photographer, Joseph Connors. 

 773:1 :|w (NNC)AKJ7520 

HTML Conversion

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[body][h3]Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959[/h3]Kaufmann House, or Fallingwater (Bear Run, Pa.)[ul][li]

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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

• Downstream view.

Collection Level Record

Author:  Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.                                       

Title:  [Buildings, architectural models, architectural drawings, 

sketches and book illustrations] {slide}.                     

Other Title:   Art humanities 20th century architecture                       

Description:   46 slides : b&w and col.                                       

Published:                                      

Notes:         Slides include views and architectural details of Villa Savoye,

Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ozenfant atelier and models of Villa Stein-De Monzie, 

sketches of the Acropolis at Athens, Greece and illustrations from 

"Towards a New Architecture."  

Kodak Photo CD. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University  Libraries, 1995. Scanned 

from 35 mm. b&w and color slides.   



LC Subjects:    Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.       

                Jeanneret, Pierre, 1896-1965.



Subjects:

 Villa Savoye (Poissy, France) 

 Villa Stein-De Monzie (Garches, France)

 Notre-Dame-du-Haut (Chapel : Ronchamp, France)                 

 Ozenfant Atelier (Paris, France) 

 Chapels--France--Ronchamp.                              

 Acropolis (Athens, Greece)

Web Menu: Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

• 4 Sketches of the Acropolis, Athens.
• Sketch of the Acropolis, Athens.

Part to Whole Relationship

West end of the Acropolis, Propylaea & Temple of Athena Nike

• View of West end of Acropolis
• West end of the Acropolis, Propylaea & Parthenon
• View NE from Philapappus Hill

• 4 Sketches of the Acropolis, Athens
• Sketch of the Acropolis

856 |d and |f

• 856 |d Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
• Hierarchical, grouping element eg.: artist's name, architectural site, geographic heading

• File storage and location
• surrogate path leads to host where complete and current access information is stored.

Grouping device

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

245:[Sketches of the Acropolis, Athens, from Le Corbusier's "Le Voyage d'Orient"]

856:7 :|d Acropolis (Athens, Greece) |f CDR... |z Sketches of the Acropolis, Athens.

856..|z Sketch of the Acropolis, Athens.

245:West end of the Acropolis, Propylaea &  Temple of Athena Nike   

856:7 :|d Acropolis (Athens, Greece) |f i/CDR2200/uga0011 |z View of West end of Acropolis 

from Areopagus rock (at sunset)  

Raw Vendor Metadata

White""oil/canvas""102x86 cm"GDAM, Inv. #170. ""ca. 1555""The Dresden Collection"

	"LIF2286.TIF" 

"Lif-2288""Painting""TITIAN (1477-1576), Italy""The Tribute Money""oil/wood""75x56 

cm""GDAM,  Inv. #169. ""ca. 1516""The Dresden Collection""LIF2288.TIF" 

Vendor Metadata - Elements

• Catalog Number
• Subject Type
• Period
• Artist
• Site
• Title
• Material

Vendor Metadata-formatted

Plan of attack, or what do we do first?

 Jgc-0314        Sculpture       Classical Period        LYSIPPUS, attributed (ca. 350-300 BC)  

 "Matron of Herculaneum" marble  200 cm high    GAN, Inv. #3622.   

  Full length from front  1st c. BC Copy  Ancient Art Volume 1: Greek Art (Sculpture)

  JGC0314.JPG

Name Authorities for Museums

AVK   Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

BB    Musees royaux des beux-arts de Belgique (Brussels)

FPL   Musee national du Louvre (Paris, France)

GAA   Museion Akropole-os

GAN   Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)

NAF Search on Lysippus

ARN: 1554253

100 00  Lysippus.

400 00  Lysippos

400 00  Lisippo

670     LC data base, (2/20/86 |b (Lysippus,fl. 4th cent. B.C., Cicyon; Greek sculptor)

670     Oxford class. dict. b (lysippus, sculptor,of Sicyon)

Name heading changes

 Dosso, Dossi (ca. 1489-1542 (VENDOR)

 Dossi, Dosso, d.1542  (NAF)

 ======================================

 Pinturicchio (1454-1513)  (VENDOR)	

 Pintoricchio, ca. 1454-1513 (NAF)

Name Authority Issues

• LC NAF , ULAN, other scheme?
• Name variants in metadata source files from image vendors
• Personal, Geographic, Corporate headings?
• Language diacritics for web display
• Authorized headings w/out authority files
• Managing colletion growth

Anonymous works

100:10: |a Unknown artist, Netherlands.

245:00: |a Capriccio.

260:00: |c 1600/10.

300:  : |a  oil on wood ; |c 29 x 48 cm.

500:  : |a  AVK Inv. #3582.

856:7 : |d Unknown artist, Netherlands |f i/CDR2101/mff1356 |z Capriccio.

Multiple Creators

100:00: |a Giorgione, |d 1477-1511. 

245:00: |a Sleeping Venus. 

260:00: |c 1508-1510. 

300:  : |a  oil on canvas ; |c 108.5 x 175 cm. 

500:  : |a  GDAM Inv. #185. 

500:  : |a Completed by Titian following Giorgione's death. 

700:0 :|a Titian, |d ca. 1488-1576.  

856:7 :|d Giorgione, 1477-1511 |f  i/CDR2100/lif2265 |z Sleeping Venus.  

856:7 :|d Titian, ca. 1488-1576 |f i/CDR2100/lif2265  |z Sleeping Venus. 

Composite works

100:10:|a Cossa, Francesco del, |d a1435-ca.1477.

245:04:The Annunciation and Nativity.

3004:36 PM:2 scenes painted on wood panel ; |c 137.5 x 113 cm.

56:7 :|d Cossa, Francesco del, etc. |f i/CDR,etc./ |z The Annuciation and Nativity.

856 |z The Annunciation, detail: Angel Gabriel.

856 |z The Nativity, detail: Stable with figures of nativity scene.

Altarpiece

100:10: |a Eyck, Jan van, |d 1390-1440.

245:04: |a The Dresden altar. 

260:00: |c signed, dated ; 1437.

300:  : |a  oil on wood, triptych ; |c 33.1 x 27.5  cm.

856:7 :|d Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440 
|f  i/CDR2100/lff1310 |z Dresden altar.

Altarpiece metadata from Vendor

 Dresden Altar (Virgin and child), oil/wood, center

 Virgin and Child on Throne

 St. George, donor, frame

 St. Catherine, landscape

 Angel Gabriel from Annunciation

 Virgin of the Annunciation

Altarpiece w/multiple scenes

856:7 :|d Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440 |f i/CDR2100/lff1312
|z Left shutter: St. George, donor, frame.

856:7 :|d Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440 |f i/CDR2100/lff1313
|z Right shutter: St. Catherine, landscape.

856:7 :|d Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440 |f i/CDR2100/lff1314
|z Exterior detail: Angel Gabriel from Annunciation.

856:7 :|d Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440 |f i/CDR2100/lff1315
|z Exterior detail: Virgin of the Annunciation.

Cataloger-supplied title

Influence on Creator

 245:00:|a Colonial influences on Frank Lloyd Wright  |h [slide]        

 300:  :  |a 3 slides : |b col.        

 508:  :  |a Photographer,  Joseph Connors.

 773:1 : |w (NNC)AKJ7441      

 856:7 : |d Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 |f i/PCD404220220711/img0005 |z 17th century 

  windmill on Nantucket Island.

Image Source Note

100:0 : |a Le Corbusier, |d 1887-1965.         

 245:10: |a Ozenfant studio house (Paris, France) |h [slide]         

 260:   : |c 1920-22.         

 300:  : |a 2 slides : |b col.         

 508:  : |a Slides supplied from the Art History slide collection in the Dept. of

 Art History and Archaeology  at Columbia University.

Image source: Printed monograph

500::|a Slides photographed from print source: Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret: 

Oeuvre completes,  1910-1929, published by W. Boesiger, Zurich, Editions 

d'Architecture, 1967, v.1, p.57.  

Multiple print sources

100:0 : |a Le Corbusier, |d 1887-1965.       

245:10: |a [Sketches of the Acropolis, Athens, from Le Corbusier's "Le Voyage d'Orient"] |h [slide].       

260:   : |c 1911.       

300:  : |a 2 slides : |b  b&w.  

Multiple source note

500:  : |a Slides photographed from print sources: Four sketches of the Acropolis,

 Athens, taken from "Le Corbusier, viaggio in Oriente : gli inediti di Charles Edouard Jeanneret, 

fotografo e scrittore": by Guiliano Gresleri, Venice, Fondation Le Corbusier, 1985,  p.31. 

  Sketch of the Acropolis, Athens taken from "Le  Corbusier lui-meme" by Jean Petit, 

Geneva, Editions Rousseau, 1970, p.42.