Classifying the Drawn Evidence: cross-domain issues

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Classifying the Drawn Evidencecross-domain
issues

• Sarah Chubb
• University of Dundee

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Introduction to the project

• RSLP funded project started in 1999 and due to
  finish July 2002
• digitising architectural records from all over
  Scotland to represent Scotlands progress from
  Industrialisation to the Millennium
• includes plans, paintings, photographs, and
  documentary sources

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Content Standards

• Maps to ISAD(G)
• Maps to Dublin Core
• Controlled vocabulary using
• Art Architecture Thesaurus
• Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Art Architecture Thesaurus

• architectural genre
• architectural features
• drawing types

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Typical database record
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Subject tagging
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The subject list
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Index Search
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Categories Search
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Search Results
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Example - Dundee Custom House
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Dundee Custom House - Catalogue Record
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Dundee Custom House - Technical Record
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The problem of context

• what is the story behind the collection?
• how many items from the collection have been
  digitised?
• what other collections contain relevant material?

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Widening the context

• What do our users really want?
• How do we create virtual collections?
• by architect?
• by building?
• by subject?

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Will our access terms generate our collections?