[WEB4LIB] seeking good metalanguage for old photographs

[Allison Zhang]

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms 
(TGM II) at: 
http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico?usr=pub&op=sessioncheck&db=TGM_I&JServSessionIdpmeizone=wyqon0h51h

and AAT at:
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html


Allison Zhang
Manager, Digital Collections Production Center
Washington Research Library Consortium
901 Commerce Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Phone: 301-390-2049
Fax: 301-390-2020
Email: zhang at wrlc.org
www.wrlc.org





At 01:22 AM 07-12-2002 -0700, Info Galway Library wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We are about to place a collection of old black and white photographs on the
>web. The photographs will be retrieved by keyword search. The keywords will
>be stored in a database that will link the keyword to the photograph's
>filename. To compile the keywords, we are seeking a good metalanguage or
>'controlled vocabulary' that is particulary suited to cataloguing
>photographs.
>
>Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
>
>Regards
>John Fitzgibbon
>
>Galway Public Library
>Island House
>Cathedral Square
>Galway
>Ireland
>
>http://www.galwaylibrary.ie
>
>Phone: 00 353 91 562471
>Fax: 00 353 91 565039



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