Implementing an Image Database for Complex Russian Architectural Objects: The William Brumfield Collection

With support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Reference Materials Program grant for 2006-2008, faculty and librarians at the University of Washington (UW) are collaborating with William Brumfield (Tulane University) to preserve and catalog the latter's unmatched collection of Russia...

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Published in:Slavic & East European information resources 2007-12, Vol.8 (2-3), p.109-126
Main Authors: West, James D., Llona, Eileen, Gerontakos, Theodore, Biggins, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
architectural databases
Image databases
metadata
METS
Preservation
Russian architecture
Russian materials
University libraries
University of Washington Libraries
William Craft Brumfield
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Summary:With support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Reference Materials Program grant for 2006-2008, faculty and librarians at the University of Washington (UW) are collaborating with William Brumfield (Tulane University) to preserve and catalog the latter's unmatched collection of Russian architectural photographs, create metadata describing the photographs, and make images and text widely accessible as part of an innovative web-based educational and research resource. Building on experience gained through the creation of an experimental pilot database, project staff are adapting emerging standards (METS and CCO) to a custom design that presents images from the Brumfield Collection within their architectural, geographic, and chronological contexts, both as interrelated views of individual structures, and as buildings that share certain structural and stylistic features with other buildings within and beyond the Russian cultural continuum.
ISSN:1522-8886
1522-9041
DOI:10.1300/J167v08n02_10