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Cataloguing Cultural Objects: new guidelines for descriptive cataloging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Elisa Lanzi
Elisa Lanzi*
Affiliation:
Imaging Centre, Art Department, Smith College, Hillyer Hall, Northampton MA 01063, USA
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Email: elanzi@email.smith.edu
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Abstract

Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO) is a standards-based project developed under the auspices of the Visual Resources Association (VRA). CCO addresses the metadata needs of communities that work with a broad range of artistic or cultural works and associated images of those works. CCO provides guidelines for selecting, ordering and formatting descriptive data used to populate catalog records. This article gives the background to the project and the involvement of the user communities in the development of the guide, as well as describing future directions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , 2004 , pp. 26 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2004

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References

1. A complete draft of CCO has been published on the VRA Web site at http://vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html. All chapters are available as downloadable pdf files.Google Scholar
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