Subject Access to a Multilingual Museum Database: A Step-by-Step Approach to the Digitization Process [Paperback]

Translating visual works into verbal form is clearly a formidable task. While libraries have a century of cooperative cataloguing behind them, museums and other cultural institutions have tended to go their separate ways, believing the objects in their collections are unique. Dr. Kupietzky has put together a guide for digitizing encyclopedic, multilingual museums that promises to both standardize and streamline the process.
Part I provides a review of the literature and of the problems concerning methods used in the computerization of museums. Part II offers practical guidelines for mono- or multilingual museums seeking to implement a database to aid in cataloguing their holdings. A six-step process of computerizing museum collections (the SAGE-K method) was developed to facilitate the application of these ideas by all museums and enable them to achieve the goal of digitization.

This book contains excellent information to assist librarians in serving patrons seeking help with their genealogical or family history research. . . . This work is recommended for all reference collections, with circulating copies for library patrons. Libraries should provide free personal copes for each reference librarian to mark up for themselves for use during consultations with genealogical or family history patrons. ARBA

It would be useful in comprehensive collections of information management titles. The Electronic Library

TABLE OF CONTENTS
BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
THE CHALLENGES
THE DIGITIZATION PROCESS: THE SAGE-K PROCESS OF COMPUTERIZING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
STEP 1: DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MUSEUM
STEP 2: CHOOSING A DATABASE SYSTEM
STEP 3: PRELUDE TO THE COMPUTERIZATION PROJECT
STEP 4: ANALYZING NEEDS
STEP 5: STANDARDIZING DATA IN THE MOST EFFICIENT MANNER - IMAGE, TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA
STEP 6: RUlsM