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Exploring METS : a case study using architectural images
  • Eileen Llona, Marsha Maguire, Diana Brooking


  • University of Washington Libraries
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Metadata for architecture images
  • architecture image collections are complex
  • using flat system for metadata doesn’t work well for these types of collections
  • need complex metadata in a structure that can accommodate complexity (METS)
  • choice of appropriate schema(s) to use with METS
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Background
  • Russian architecture images
  • Some buildings extensively documented
  • Delmas Foundation funding to digitize, catalog and design interface for 1,200 representative images
  • This collection representative of other architecture collections
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Single building, one image, one view, one photo date
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One building, many images, multiple views, different photo dates
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Architectural ensemble, multiple buildings, multiple views
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Diagram of one church
(works within a work)
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Polyhierarchy
  • Image includes frescoes and iconostasis
  • Each considered a “work”: distinct artists, distinct date, distinct styles
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Sample record using local tags
  • <record>
  • <title>Church of Elijah the Prophet, interior, central crossing, west piers, frescoes</title>
  • <full>TSerkov Ili Proroka (IAroslavl, IAroslavskaia oblast,Russia)</full>
  • <english>Church of Elijah the Prophet (IAroslavl, IAroslavskaiaoblast, Russia)</english>
  • <common>TSerkov Ili Proroka (IAroslavl, IAroslavskaia oblast,Russia)</common>
  • <complex/>
  • <viewtype>interior view</viewtype>
  • <vieworientation>east</vieworientation>
  • <archdetail>frescoes&lt;br&gt;drums (walls)&lt;br&gt;piers (supporting elements)</archdetail>
  • <location>Russia (Federation)--IAroslavskaia oblast--IAroslavl</location>
  • <address>Sovetskaia ploshchad</address>
  • <date>1647-1650</date>
  • <begin>1647</begin>
  • <end>1650</end>
  • <architect>Savin, Sila&lt;br&gt;Nikitin, Gurii, d. 1691</architect>
  • <patron/>
  • <notes>Interior, west piers. Background: iconostasis, early 18th century. The    frescoes were painted in 1680 under the supervision of Gurii Nikitin and Sila Savin.
  • Dates of restoration: In 1898-1902, cleaned by M. I. Dikarev; In 1955-60, cleaned by V. G. Briusova and A. I. Grekov</notes>
  • <style/>
  • <buildingtype>churches</buildingtype>
  • <materials>brick</materials>
  • <restoration>1898&lt;br&gt;1955</restoration>
  • <preservationstatus/>
  • <contact/>
  • <imageno>1270</imageno>
  • <contactinfo/>
  • <copyright>Brumfield, William Craft, 1944-</copyright>
  • <photographer>Brumfield, William Craft, 1944-</photographer>
  • <photodate>1995</photodate>
  • <phototype>35mm color slide</phototype>
  • <imagemod/>
  • <lastupdated>1/28/2003 0:00:00</lastupdated>
  • <category>detail-interior</category>
  • <keyentity/>
  • <latitude>57.64</latitude>
  • <longitude>39.87</longitude>
  • <keyimage>0</keyimage>
  • <url>http://content-dev.lib.washington.edu/brumfield/image/1045.JPG</url>
  • </record>


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Showing relationships through the interface
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Polyhierarchy
  • Using METS and structMap to accommodate this situation
  • Each work described in the dmdSec; individual images can be linked in more than 1 place in structMap
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Catalog the building (=work), not the images?
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Automated mapping from local tags to METS/VRA
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Automated mapping from local tags to METS/VRA
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Manual creation of METS record
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Mapping across schemas
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Using embedded schemas to show relationships vs. using METS structMap to show relationships
  • <METS:dmdSec ID="dm1.1">
  • <METS:mdWrap MDTYPE="VRA">
  • <METS:xmlData>
  • <vra:vra>
  • <vra:record type="work">
  • <vra:type authority="aat">fences</vra:type>
  • <vra:title>Fence</vra:title>
  • <vra:title type="largerEntity">TSerkov Ili Proroka (IAroslavl, IAroslavskaia oblast, Russia)</vra:title>
  • <vra:material type="medium" authority="aat">brick</vra:material>
  • <vra:material type="medium" authority="aat">wrought iron</vra:material>
  • <vra:material type="medium" authority="aat">ceramic</vra:material>
  • <vra:description>The iron fence and brick fenceposts, ornamented with inlaid ceramic medallions, were designed by A.M. Pavlinov and constructed over two centuries after the initial construction of the main church building. </vra:description>
  • </vra:record>
  • </vra:vra>
  • </METS:xmlData>
  • </METS:mdWrap>
  • </METS:dmdSec>