[Yulcat-l] FW: Describing Photographs for the Online Catalogue (online class)

Tue Sep 10 10:02:14 EDT 2013

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Subject: Describing Photographs for the Online Catalogue (online class)

Describing Photographs for the Online Catalogue

Instructor: Beth Knazook
Dates: October 1-28, 2013
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175
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Students in this course will explore the many ways in which photographic = images are described and interpreted by both people and computers. The = goal of the course is to broaden the non-specialist cataloguer=92s = ability to describe the subject content and material qualities of = photographs, and to provide a greater understanding of current standards = and approaches to image resource access. The course will begin with = exercises aimed at helping students to identify and describe different = photographic media and common deterioration problems. Students will = develop an image record using either the VRA Core Categories or Dublin = Core, and will apply authority data to these records using specialized = controlled vocabularies such as the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials and = the Getty Vocabularies. Class discussions will focus on questions of = data completeness and complexity, theories regarding image iconography = and interpretation, and the feasibility of using crowd-sourced = descriptive information, including social tagging and folksonomies. The = outcome of this course will be a greater understanding of the varied = approaches to describing visual content through written language, giving = students the skills to incorporate flexibility into the cataloguing = structure.

This course is a follow-up to =93What do I do with all these Images?=94 = Getting Started with Digital Image Collections, but it is not necessary = to have taken that class in order to participate. While the previous = course focused on building a digitization program, this course will = focus on the description and retrieval of digital resources. Course =
goals:

 =95 Improve cataloguer lexicon for describing image quality and = content, understand theories of image description
 =95 Learn to identify and describe the common ways in which images = deteriorate
 =95 Appreciate the =93semantic gap=94 between visual and textual = information
 =95 Improve understanding of controlled vocabularies, folksonomies and = social tagging for image retrieval

Beth Knazook holds an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections = Management from Ryerson University/ George Eastman House International = Museum of Photography and Film. She has previously worked as the = Curatorial Specialist for Ryerson University Archives & Special = Collections and as the Photo Archivist for the Stratford Festival of = Canada. She has presented at library and archives conferences on topics = of digital access and cataloguing methods for image-based resources, and = she will begin her doctoral studies in Art History and Art Conservation = at Queen's University in September 2013 with a focus on the history, use = and care of nineteenth century photographically-illustrated books.=20

Interview with Beth Knazook: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=3D345

Course structure
This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that = participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The = class does not meet together at any particular times, although the = instructor may set up optional sychronous chat sessions. Instruction = includes readings and assignments in one-week segments. Class = participation is in an online forum environment.

Payment info
You can register in this course through the first week of instruction. = The "Register" button on the website goes to our credit card payment = gateway, which may be used with personal or institutional credit cards. = If your institution wants to pay using a purchase order, please contact = us to make arrangements.

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