[Metadatalibrarians] MODS and public art

[Renee McBride]

e -- 2 things about this:

1) i GET it.

2) looks like UH has a new dept name for and head of cataloging?

r

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Renee McBride
Technical Services & Arts Liaison Librarian
Wyndham Robertson Library
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9000
Roanoke VA 24020-1000
email: crmcbride at hollins.edu
phone: (540) 362-6234
fax: (540) 362-6756
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From: metadatalibrarians-bounces at lists.monarchos.com [metadatalibrarians-bounces at lists.monarchos.com] On Behalf Of Anne Mitchell [amitchell at uh.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:05 PM
To: metadatalibrarians at lists.monarchos.com
Subject: [Metadatalibrarians] MODS and public art

Hello all,

I'm currently working with a collection of images of artwork around
campus.  We have been using MODS for still images and it has worked well
for us up to this point, but I'm not sure what would be the best way to
encode the physical location of an artwork (i.e., "Science & Research
Plaza") in MODS.  physicalLocation doesn't seem to be quite appropriate
for this usage, nor does a geographic heading.  Needless to say, the
art-oriented standards handle this much better, but I'd rather not
incorporate an additional (and unfamiliar) standard into our database at
this point.  Are there any best practices you have developed or
discovered to address this issue?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide,

Anne

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Anne M. Mitchell
Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services

University of Houston
114 University Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000

Phone:  713-743-9685
Fax:  713-743-9748
Email:  amitchell at uh.edu
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