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Metadata Classification Seminar 2, Friday 18th January 2008
The Assembly Hall, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London, SW1P 3NZ, UK

140 delegates from UK cultural institutions, government departments, educational establishments and image libraries gathered for a major international conference on the latest online access trends for image collections.
Overall, the conference provided an educational platform for a subject which is fast becoming recognised as a commercial necessity. Organisations represented included BBC; The British Museum; Courtauld Institute; Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Hulton Getty; Kings College London; Royal Academy of Arts; Science Museum; The National Gallery; UK Intellectual Property Office; V&A.

Click here for the report on Semantics & Semiotics, including the results of the survey;

Murtha Baca, Getty Institute, The Evolving Metadata Landscape and Recent Trends (ppt. 1,104 KB)

Murtha Baca, Getty Institute, Selected Bibliography (PDF 108 KB)

Murtha Baca, Getty Institute, Annotated List of Tools for Metadata & Vocabularies for Art & Cultural Heritage (Doc, 135 KB)

Monika Hagedorn Saupe and Axel Ermert, Current Activities for Networking Museum Information in Germany and the Development of "museumdat" (PDF 720KB)

Murtha Baca, Getty Institute, Using Controlled Vocabularies and Authority Files to Enhance Access to Information Images (ppt, 1,182 KB)

Stella Dextre Clarke, Crossing the Boundaries: Interoperability Between Vocabularies (ppt, 852 KB)

Murtha Baca, Getty Institute, Practical Principles for Metadata Creation and Maintenance (doc, 85 KB)

Murtha Baca, Gety Institute, Creating Integrated Access to Collections On Line; Metadata Harvesting (ppt, 1,686 KB)