Metadata for Conservators: Overcoming obstacles to digitising conservation documentation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Conservation documentation plays an essential role in the long-term preservation of cultural property, and conservators are ethically responsible for keeping permanent and accessible records. While the conservation profession has been slow to digitise legacy documentation, Stanford Libraries Conservation Services began a process of regularly accessioning its conservation records to the university’s digital repository in 2018. To determine strategies for the effective cataloguing of accessioned conservation records, internal search needs were assessed to develop a metadata profile based on the MODS standard. This paper describes mappings from Stanford Libraries conservation data to MODS and Dublin Core elements, enumerates useful controlled vocabularies for describing conservation documentation in repository metadata and examines the potential benefits of descriptive metadata profiles to the conservation profession.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | February 17, 2022 |
| Date modified | September 23, 2023; July 2, 2024; July 2, 2024 |
| Publication date | May 10, 2023; May 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lieu, Ryan |
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9069-862X
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Subjects
| Subject | Conservation and restoration |
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| Subject | Documentation |
| Subject | Controlled vocabularies |
| Subject | Metadata |
| Subject | Cataloging |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bv832cf2755 |
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- User agrees that, where applicable, content will not be used to identify or to otherwise infringe the privacy or confidentiality rights of individuals. Content distributed via the Stanford Digital Repository may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND).
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Lieu, Ryan. “Metadata for Conservators: Overcoming Obstacles to Digitising Conservation Documentation.” Journal of Digital Media Management, vol. 10, no. 4, Jan. 2022, pp. 314–22.
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- ryanlieu@stanford.edu
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