Transcript Metadata: the view from my trench

Metadata: the view
from my trench
Ardys Kozbial
UCAI Project, UC San Diego
For VRA, March 15, 2005
Who is working on UCAI?
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Brian Schottlaender, Principal Investigator
Linda Barnhart, Project Manager
Ardys Kozbial, Metadata Librarian
Trish Rose, Metadata Librarian
Esme Cowles, Programmer
Joe Jesena, Programmer
UCAI Partners, Phase 2
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Image Library, Ingalls Library, Cleveland
Museum of Art
VIA metadata and images, Harvard
University
Visual Image Collection, UCSD Art &
Architecture Library
Visual Resources Center, Dept. of Art
History, University of Minnesota
Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection,
University of Pennsylvania
o Visual Resources, Dept. of Art and
Archaeology, Princeton University
UCAI Phase 2
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Phase 1, Apr. 2002 – Dec. 2003
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Phase 2, Jan. 2004 - June 2005
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Demonstrate feasibility
Build infrastructure
Record count
988,554 image records
 672,746 work records
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Definitions
Clustering. An automated technique for
grouping or classifying data together
according to similar features. The goal
of the technique is to compress data
sets by highlighting the categories
inherent in a data set.
Similarity measures. The
criteria by which the cluster is
formed.
Similarity measures
I-Box
Morris, Robert
1962
Sculpture
I Box
Morris, Robert
role: artist
1962
Mixed media
Similarity Measures
Title: Arch of Constantine:
Hadrianic Roundel: Boar
Hunt
Artist: Anonymous
Building: Arch of
Constantine
Date: 2nd Century
Period: Ancient Roman,
2nd century
Site: Rome
Country: Italy
Additional Information:
This medallion, created
under the emperor Hadrian,
was removed from its
original location and placed
on the Arch of Constantine.
Constantine was the first
Emperor to allow the
practice of Christianity in the
Roman Empire.
Keywords: Roman Empire,
Arches, Appropriation,
Emperors, Hunting.
Call Number: J472AW
R763PA C7581B
Main Entry: Rome
Title: Constantine, Arch of.
Hadrianic Medallions, North
facade, left frieze
Title Part: Boar Hunt;
Sacrifice to Apollo; Oratio
Date: 312
Site: Rome Subregion:
Lazio
Style & Period: Historic
dating to 3rd Ct., AD,
Roman, Late Antique
Broad Media: Architecture
Country: Roman Empire
Subject Terms:
Monuments, Arches, History
in art, Stone
Record type: Work
Type: Relief Sculpture
Title: Rome. Arch of
Constantine.Tondo.Boar
Hunt
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: 130-138 CE
Culture: Roman
StylePeriod: Ancient,
Hadrianic
Relation: Larger
Entity.Arch of Constantine
Title: Rome: Arch of
Constantine: Ext.: north
face: left side: tondo relief:
"Boar Hunt" from lost
Hadrianic monument [slide]
Published:. 117-138 A.D
Call No.: 132R.R763
14TCon (a)1b1
Loc: AAL
Note: Slide. black & white
Slides
Subject: Architecture:Site—
Roman Italy—4th C. A.D.;
Rome—Arch of
Constantine; Triumphal
Arches; Commemorative
monuments; Hunting
Working together