Making Photographs in Language Archives Maximally Useful: Metadata Guidelines for Community and Academic Depositors
Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Collections in language archives typically include photographs. The purpose of these photographs is to supplement linguistic information about materials, places, and people related to cultural activities that are being forgotten. Instruction on metadata creation for these photograph deposits must take into consideration the variety of depositors to and users of language archives. In addition to the use of existing controlled vocabularies, classification lists, or thesauri in metadata creation, we observe in metadata for photographs the need for open-ended descriptions of personal experience related to the objects, places, and things photographed.
Author: Shobhana Chelliah
Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4383894150