Subject Access to a Multilingual Museum Database: A Step-By-Step Approach to the Digitization Process

by Allison Siffre Guedalia Kupietzky

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591584442
• ISBN13: 9781591584445
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.9"