Debey Sklenar

LS 566 Metadata

Spring Semester 2016

• April 18, 1906

• 26 pieces of film from in & around San Francisco

• 17 Before

• 7 Right After

• 2 A Decade Later

• Over 9 million items

• Historical events, people, places & ideas shaping American culture

• Collections based on:

• Original Format

• Subject Matter

• Person Responsible

• Experimental Pilot Program, 1990 - 1994

• 44 Schools & Libraries

• CD-ROMs

• National Digital Library Program

• October 13, 1994• American Memory as the flagship• Goal to digitize foremost historical materials• Make available to:

• Scholars• Educators• Students• General Public• Global Internet Community

• For Describing

• Archival Moving Image Materials: a cataloging manual

• For Value

• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File(LCNAF)

• Library of Congress Genre/Form Thesaurus (LCGFT)

Dublin Core??? … or MARC???

Screen captures from: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694419/

MARC21

mapped to MARCXML

mapped to MODS

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• MARC21 to Dublin Core

• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Screen Capture from:https://www.loc.gov/item/00694419/

• Short Answer = NO

Screen Captures from: http://dp.la/info/help/search/ , http://www.worldcat.org/, http://www.oclc.org/en-US/home.html, and http://bibframe.org/

• Short Answer = NO

Image Courtesy: ArtsyBee at https://pixabay.com/en/cancel-deny-website-icon-red-1174809/

• The Library of Congress

Screen Capture from: http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/location.html

Screen Captures from: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694419/

• Nitrate Film

Screen Capture from: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694429/

• Paper Prints

Image by Hansmuller - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39719987

• 35 mm – Most Popular Modern Method

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• 35 mm – Most Popular Modern Method

Image Courtesy PeterDargatz at https://pixabay.com/en/goats-animal-bock-billy-goat-173940/

• “Still” versus “Moving”

• Sound Accompaniment

• Audio & Visual

• Instance in time versus Passage of time

Image Courtesy Jjuni at https://pixabay.com/en/clock-wall-clocks-alarm-time-1141545/

at https://vimeo.com/163498079

Screen Capture from: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694427/

• American Memory [Website], (n.d.). Retrieved from https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/index.html

• Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897 to 1916 [Website], (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/collections/san-francisco-earthquake-and-fire-1897-to-1916/about-this-collection/

• Motion Picture & Television Reading Room: Early motion pictures free of copyright restrictions in the Library of Congress (2010). Retrieved from http://loc.gov/rr/mopic/earlymps.html

• Walters-Johnston, J. & Leigh, A. (2016, March 29). E-mail message to author.