Searching for nirvana: Cataloging and the digital collection at the experience music project

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-31

  Maguire, Marsha ^a   Motson, David E ^b   Wilson, Gwen ^c   Wolfe, Jen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b 101M Butler Library ^*  (United States)

^c 100 Main Library ^*  (United States)

^d University of Iowa Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataloging; Cataloging of artifacts; EMP; Experience Music Project; Interactive museum exhibits; Internet; Music museums; Rock 'n' roll; Standards; Virtual museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953156739     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v07n01_02     Document Type: Article

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2. Heery, Rachel, and Manjula Patel, "Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas," Ariadne, issue 25 (Sept. 2000). [Accessed 14 January 2004] Available at URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/.
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9. National Park Service. Museum Handbook. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Interior, 1990-. Part II provides guidance on accessioning and cataloging. Looseleaf printed and online versions available. URL: http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/handbook.html.
10. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual. AMIM Revision Committee; Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000. Printed and online versions available. URL: http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/arch0332.htm.
11. The CIDOC Categories, while more properly described as a structural standard, also provided useful guidance on content values.
12. E-mail from Jim Fricke, Dec. 1, 2003.
13. See Principle 3 in the "Statement of Principles for the CUSTARD Project" (Canadian-U.S. Task Force on Archival Description), Society of American Archivists Web site. [Accessed 14 January 2004] Available at URL: http://www.archivists.org/news/custardproject.asp.
14. Textual items such as typed and handwritten song lyrics were digitally photographed, but most of these have not as yet been converted to searchable text files via optical character recognition (OCR) software.