Cataloging Cultural Objects

A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images

By: Murtha Baca, Patricia Harpring, Elisa Lanzi

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Paperback | 1 September 2006

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In a visual and artifact-filled world, cataloging one-of-a-kind cultural objects without published guidelines and standards has been a challenge.

Now for the first time, under the leadership of the Visual Resources Association, a cross-section of five visual and cultural heritage experts, along with scores of reviewers from varied institutions, have created a new data content standard focused on cultural materials.

This cutting-edge reference offers practical resources for cataloging and flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of institutions-from libraries to museums to archives. Consistently following these guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate metadata elements in cultural materials' catalog records:

Promotes good descriptive cataloging and reduces redundancy
Builds a foundation of shared documentation
Creates data sharing opportunities
Enhances end-user access across institutional boundaries
Complements existing standards (AACR)

This is a must-have reference for museum professionals, visual resources curators, archivists, librarians and anyone who documents cultural objects (including architecture, paintings, sculpture, prints, manuscripts, photographs, visual media, performance art, archaeological sites, and artifacts) and their images.

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Non-Fiction Education Teaching of a Specific Subject Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Library & Info Sciences Bibliographic & Subject Control

General guidelines	p. 1
Elements	p. 43
Object naming	p. 48
Creator information	p. 77
Physical characteristics	p. 104
Stylistic, cultural, and chronological information	p. 156
Location and geography	p. 183
Subject	p. 207
Class	p. 235
Description	p. 245
View information	p. 259
Authorities	p. 279
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