{"id":607,"date":"2017-08-28T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pafaarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:17:07","slug":"imls-project-update-lessons-learned-cataloging-and-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/collection\/imls-project-update-lessons-learned-cataloging-and-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"IMLS Project Update: Lessons Learned (Cataloging and Metadata)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by: Tess Amram, IMLS Project Archivist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cataloging and metadata assignation portion of this project was the facet most relevant to my immediate career goals \u2013 I\u2019m aiming for a career in cataloging, and I applied for this job in large part because it would expose me to cataloging standards I hadn\u2019t yet had a chance to work with (i.e. standards for materials other than books). I hadn\u2019t had much cause to use the Getty Art &amp; Architecture Thesaurus before now, and I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity to expose myself to controlled vocabulary outside of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (although I wish I had dived into Getty a bit earlier in the process \u2013 it would have saved me a lot of nitpicking at the end!).<\/p>\n<p>One of the downsides of cataloging when you love it, I\u2019ve found, is that it\u2019s often difficult to know when to stop. There are a handful of photographs that I was unable to identify, both of gallery installations and of individual works, and it was very, very easy to slip into a Detective Mode Spiral and devote altogether more time than was wise trying to figure it out. Given the fact that most of the artwork depicted in the photographs is of \u2018lost art\u2019, it\u2019s entirely possible that I wouldn\u2019t have been able to identify a particular piece no matter what, but for a completionist like me, admitting defeat is quite frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by: Tess Amram, IMLS Project Archivist The cataloging and metadata assignation portion of this project was the facet most relevant to my immediate career goals \u2013 I\u2019m aiming for a career in cataloging, and I applied for this job in large part because it would expose me to cataloging standards I hadn\u2019t yet had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection","category-grant","tag-imls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}