{"id":16432,"date":"2022-02-09T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2022-10-24T01:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:41:26","slug":"catalogs-metadata-and-databases-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/catalogs-metadata-and-databases-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Card Division in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Photograph circa 1900-1920. Image Public Domain.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Research Group Speaks
\nEpisode 6
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Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases (Part I)
\nA Roundtable<\/h1>\n

19 February 2022<\/em><\/h3>\n

[Posted on 9 February 2022, with updates, now with the accomplishment of the event.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

By special request, a roundtable discussion aims to consider challenges and opportunities encountered in making, and using, catalogs and databases \u2014 with a focus especially on bibliographical and manuscript materials. This aim flows from the plan to hold a lunch at the Index of Medieval Art<\/a> at Princeton University during our 2020 Spring Symposium<\/a> (which had to be cancelled), to bring together participants engaged with such issues, from the Index of Medieval Art, the BASIRA Project<\/a>, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<\/a>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Anonymous, Still Life of an Illuminated Book, German School, 15th century. Image Public Domain.<\/p><\/div>\n

As the next episode in the online series of webinars, workshops, and other meetings wherein The Research Group Speaks<\/a>, the February 2022 Roundtable\u00a0<\/strong> explores challenges and opportunities for the catalogs, metadata, and databases, the characteristics of the materials which these structures seek to address, and some case studies.\u00a0 Examples include the BASIRA Project<\/a> on “Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art”, the Index of Medieval Art Database<\/a>, Digital Scriptorium 2.0<\/a>, the Pinakes\/\u03a0\u1f77\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u03b5\u03c2 Database<\/a> of Greek Texts and Manuscripts, and approaches to cataloging collections or selected source materials (such as artists’ books<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Speakers and Respondents include Barbara Williams Ellertson, Jessica L. Savage, Linde M. Brocato, Lynn Ransom, Katharine Chandler, Georgi Parpulov, Howard German, and David Porreca.\u00a0 Subjects for consideration include “Standards and Vocabularies in Art-History Cataloging”, “Labelling, Way-finding, and Meaning”, “About ‘Aboutness’ “, “Teaching Cataloguing Today”, “The Pinakes<\/em> Database”, “Digital Scriptorium 2.0<\/em>:\u00a0 Manuscript Description in a Linked Open Data Context”, and more.\u00a0 See the Program<\/strong> below.<\/p>\n

We gather perspectives from those who make, and those who use, such resources.<\/p>\n

Preparations for the roundtable offer ‘Handouts’ in online format.<\/p>\n

1) Below here:<\/p>\n