Photographs in the Digital Collection. Issues with the Descriptive and Subject Cataloguing on the Basis of the Digital Library of the Warsaw University of Technology

• Authors: Maria Miller , Małgorzata Wornbard
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In terms of digitization and the growing significance of photography from the perspective of cultural heritage, many efforts have been made in recent years to arrive at uniform standards for the description of documents of this type, which are collected by libraries, archives and museums and made available in digital libraries. Based on their experience working with the Digital Library of the Warsaw University of Technology, the authors of this article discuss issues associated with descriptive and subject cataloguing, resulting from the specificity of iconographic documents (where there is no text data for creating a description as well as the lack of Polish norms and rules). They lay emphasis on the new challenges which the creators of digital libraries are having to contend with when it comes to new technologies and ideas, and transformations in current working practices.

Keywords

EN

Iconographic documents; Electronic documents; Archival material; Photographs; Documentary photographs; Special collections; Metadata; Cataloguing; Computer catalogues; Subject cataloguing; Subject analysis of documents; Bibliographical description; Formats; Data structures; Digitization; Digital libraries; Internet; Semantic network; Keywords

• Publisher: Polish Librarians Association, Warsaw, http://www.sbp.pl/en
• Journal: Przegląd Biblioteczny
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 5 - The Special Issue
• Pages: 128-150

Contributors

author

Maria Miller

• Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology

author

Małgorzata Wornbard

• Main Library of Warsaw University of Technology

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