Museum metadata overview
This is an ever-evolving document.
This page will constitute a repository of the information available in different museums, around the artifacts (from both staff and visitor perspective).
The goal consists on gathering data from specific cases to build a more abroad and general vision of the needs for tagging artifacts in different museums.
McCord
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Visitor Generated |
Data Format |
Comments |
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Artifact's name |
X |
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Text |
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Collection |
X |
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Text |
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Category |
X |
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Text |
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Subject |
X |
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Text |
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Object type |
X |
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Text |
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Materials used |
X |
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Text |
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Size (Dimensions) |
X |
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Text |
(or numerical values with units) |
Acquisition Source |
X |
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Text |
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Artist |
X |
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Text |
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Year |
X |
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Text |
Could be numeric, but if there is a way to handle things like B.C. |
Period |
X |
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Text |
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Reference number |
X |
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Alphanumeric |
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Province |
X |
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Text |
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Geo-cultural area |
X |
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Text |
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Image |
X |
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Image |
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Image annotations |
X |
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Text |
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Copywrite owner of image |
X |
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Text |
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Conditions of reproduction of image |
X |
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Text |
Hyperlink to creative commons licenses or other |
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Keywords |
X |
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Text |
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Description |
X |
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Long Text |
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Media (additional information) |
X |
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Video, Audio |
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Tags |
X |
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Text |
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"My Tag" |
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X |
Text |
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Visitors' comments |
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X |
Long Text |
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Image pairs |
X |
X |
Image Reference Numbers, Image |
Image pairs comes from a game at the McCord Museum Website where users can select two images from the archive and interlay them by through transparencies and other ways of interaction. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/36 |
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Related artifacts |
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X |
Text, Reference Numbers |
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Visitors enjoying this also enjoyed... |
X |
X |
Text, Reference Numbers |
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Favouriting |
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X |
Boolean |
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Sent to friends |
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X |
Text |
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Collect (add to card) |
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X |
Boolean |
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MMI
This document Social Groups and Activities in .pdf explores the social groups and activities within the museum space. It is meant to be a starting point for future discussion on the social groups and activities associated with the MMI micro-engagement.
Favorite quote from brainstorming notes "The social goal is the most important, this is informal learning, people don't go to museums by themselves, it is mostly a social activity and this recording (technology) can expand this activity."
Tag |
Museum Generated |
Visitor Generated |
Data Format |
Comments |
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Artifact's name |
X |
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Text |
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Accession Number |
X |
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Collection Category |
X |
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Text |
"Production," "Exhibitions" |
Artifact Class |
X |
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Text |
e.g. "Promotional materials", "Books, literature, and periodicals", "Apparel and related materials", "Motion picture cameras and related eqiupment", "Slide projectos, slides and related material" |
Work Type |
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e.g. "Preview slides," "Behind-the-scenes photographs" |
Overall dimensions |
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Creation date |
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Materials |
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Technique |
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e.g. "Hand coloring," "black and white" |
Format |
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e.g. "Photograph", "Latern Slide", "One-sheet poster" |
Components |
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e.g. "50 p." "120 p." |
Medium |
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Related Entities |
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Long Text |
Link to Entity, and description of |
Related Productions |
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Related Publication |
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Description |
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Long Text |
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Source |
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Long Text |
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Historical Note |
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Long Text |
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Historical Note Source |
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Long Text |
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Alternate Image of Artifact |
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