Links of Interest
Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases
A Draft Handlist
Links in necklace form, courtesy of “Milly Budny Designs”
[First published on 15 February 2022; Note that URLs may be subject to change.]
This Draft Handlist serves as a gathering place, or point of departure, for explorations of projects and subjects for discussion in the RGME sessions on “Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases” for 2022.
The first of these is a roundtable in February 2022 on
See also Episode 4 of “The Research Group Speaks” (December 2021)
Resources & Projects
- The BASIRA Project (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)
https://basiraproject.org - CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant — Inventories of Chant Sources
https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca - Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT)
https://dact-chant.ca - Digital Scriptorium and DS 2.0
https://digital-scriptorium.org/ds-2-0
— DS 2.0 Project Info (public)
“Digital Scriptorium 2.0:
A National Union Catalog of Premodern Manuscripts in North American Collections for the Digital Age”
docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ASK7Ytl9nnvk_j5rAj8gSbNZ8eAIghvJXabzC9ewutw/edit?usp=sharing - Fragmentarium: Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments
https://fragmentarium.ms/ - The Index of Medieval Art Database
https://theindex.princeton.edu - Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM)
“Navigating the network of connections between people, institutions, and places within European medieval and Renaissance manuscripts”
https://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/en - Pinakes | Πίνακες: Textes et manuscrits grecs
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr - Gesamtkatalog der Wiegenwercke / Union Catalogue of Incunabula Database
“Database in conjunction with the print edition of the ‘Union Catalogue of Incunabula’ (GW) which lists all 15th century prints in alphabetical order.”
https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/GWEN.xhtml - Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC):
The International Database of 15th-century European Printing
International database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide.
https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search - Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI)
Database, linked to the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), specifically designed to record and search the material evidence (or copy specific, post-production evidence and provenance information) of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc.
https://data.cerl.org/mei/_search - Arkyves: A CERL Provenance Digital Archive
As a subscription service, Arkyves must be consulted from an institutional account. It is included in this resource list as a ‘collection of collections’ from museums, libraries, and research institutes, all of which use ICONCLASS (see below) for standardized classification of cultural content.
https://www.arkyves.org/
and
https://www.arkyves.org/help/ArkyvesIntro2.0.pdf
Some Catalogs
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Card Division in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Photograph circa 1900-1920. Image Public Domain.
WorldCat
https://www.worldcat.org/ - Library of Congress Catalog
https://catalog.loc.gov/ - Princeton University Library
https://libraryprinceton.edu/ - Yale University Library
https:/library.yale.edu/ - Harvard Library
https://library.harvard.edu/ - University of Miami Libraries
https://www.library.miami.edu/ - Illinois University Library
https://www.library.illinois.edu/
Approaches to Cataloging / Cataloging Standards
- Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
https://vraweb.org/resourcesx/cataloging-cultural-objects/ - Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) PDF files
“This page provides print-ready PDF files for the 2021 Edition of the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), as well as the Genre/Form Terms Manual, which provides guidelines and instructions for making proposals and for applying genre/form terms.”
https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCGFT/ freelcgft.html - Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Bibliographic Standards Committee Page
[Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL),
a division of the American Library Association (ALA)]
https://rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/# cataloging_aids
Controlled Vocabulary
- Getty Vocabularies (general)
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ - Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/>aat/index.html - Iconclass
http://www.iconclass.org/help/outline
and (in transition)
https://test/iconclass.org (ICONCLASS Illustrated Edition)
- International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC)
https://www.cidoc-crm.org/node/202
and
https://www.cidoc-crm.org/functional-units - Library of Congress Authorities
https://authorities.loc.gov - Library of Congress Name Authority File
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html - Virtual International Authority File
http://viaf.org/ - Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) Thesaurus
https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/_search - RBMS Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging (CVEG)
https://rbms.infovocabularies
Other Resources
- Toute la Memoire du Monde (1956, Alain Resnais)
Documentary short film by Alain Resnais on the massive stores of history and human memory contained in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (In French with English subtitles, 20 minutes) - Change the Subject Documentary (2019)
54-minute documentary film following the experiences of a group of Dartmouth College students who challenged the use of anti-immigrant language and Library of Congress subject headings in their library catalog.
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Richard Twiss, Farrago, held in the Unversity of Miami Special Collections, Artists’ Books Collection, ‘Butterfly’. Photograph Linde M. Brocato.
Cataloging in Action: Case Studies or Exhibits
(selected by Linde M. Brocato)
- Bartlett & Willis, American Scenery
- — in WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.
org/oclc/1280056711 - — in UMiami’s catalog: https://miami-primo.
hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ permalink/f/5pt3cj/01UOML_ ALMA21341835820002976
- Dmitry Babenko, Dreams Old the Wall
- — in Worldcat: http://www.worldcat.
org/oclc/1078926119 - — in UMiami’s catalog: https://miami-primo.
hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ permalink/f/5pt3cj/01UOML_ ALMA21336129890002976
- Richard Twiss, Farrago
- — in WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.
org/oclc/1052567500 - — in UMiami’s Catalog: https://miami-primo.
hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ permalink/f/5pt3cj/01UOML_ ALMA21333124330002976 - — images (photography by Linde M. Brocato): https://photos.app.goo.gl/apvZbsxwmRzRM9fV7
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