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Aaron White's Lis 640 White Paper
Aaron White's Lis 640 White Paper
Aaron White
LIS 640: Organizing Library Collections
November 8, 2012
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The format of Vitamin P, Volume One, is as follows:
each artist receives 2-4 pages, of which most page space is
devoted to reproductions of the artists work bordered by
white margins.
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and each paintings citation consists of title, year of
release, medium, and measurements in centimeters only.
All
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is widely used as the basis for metadata for art image
collections4 (http://standardscatalogue.ukoln.ac.uk/index/VRA) while CDWA Lites
stability and take-up is currently uncertain5
(http://standards-catalogue.ukoln.ac.uk/index/CDWA).
such, VRA will be the metadata standard.
As
The
VRA Core
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By cross-referencing the VRA Core 4 fields and XML
elements with the CCO categories, the following worksheet
fields were produced:
1. Title (corresponds to CCOs Title and VRAs work)
2. Artist (corresponds to CCOs Creator and VRAs name)(per
VRAs examples, first name first)
3. Measurements (corresponds to CCOs Measurements and VRAs
Measurements)(centimeters H. x W.)
4. Materials (corresponds to CCOs Materials and Techniques
and VRAs Material)
5. Nation (corresponds to CCOs Culture and VRAs Culture
Context)
6. Date (corresponds to CCOs date and VRAs Date (year
only))
7. Current Location (corresponds to CCOs current location
and VRAs location (for our purposes, CCPM on display,
CCPM in storage, or on loan from (name of institution)
would be key terms)
8. Subject (corresponds to CCOs subject and VRAs subject)
9. Work Type (Corresponds to CCOs class and VRAs worktype
(Currently, this is always painting))
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10. Description (corresponds to CCOs Description and VRAs
description (a free text essay carefully describing the
imagery of the work))
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Nation: USA
Date: 2009
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Title: Caspian
Nation: Switzerland
Date: 2001-2002
Subject:
Abstract
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Nation: UK
Date: 2001
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Measurements: 91 x 121 cm
Nation: UK
Date: 2004-2005
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Nation: Japan
Date: n.a.
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Date: 2002
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Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum
Work Record
Nation: India
Date: 2009-2010
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Work Record
Title: Nose
Nation: USA
Date: 2010
Subject: Abstract
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Work Record
Title: Undress
Date: 2009
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Work Record
Title: Untitled
Nation: Germany
Date: 2008
Subject: Architecture
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The Cheerwine Contemporary Painting Museum will
only be able to exhibit a portion of its five hundred item
collection in its galleries at any one time.
Regular