07.+Description*

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 * 7. Description**


 * **Fonds** (Taylor & Joudrey, 2009, p. 222) || **Fonds **(Salaün & Arsenault, 2009, p. 68) || The whole of the records, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family corporate body in the course of that creator's activities and functions. (ICA, 1999, p. 10) || 20101019 || 38 ||
 * Bibliography**

ICA. (1999). //ISAD(G): Ge////neral International Standard Archival Description//. Retrieved October 17, 2010 from []. Salaün, J. & Arsenault, C. (2009). //Introduction aux sciences de l’information//. Montreal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal. Taylor, A. G. & Joudrey, D. N. (2009). The organization of information. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. (Library and information sciences text series).

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 * **Sub- Fonds** (Taylor & Joudrey, 2009, p.222) || **Sous-fonds** (Direction des Archives de France, 2002, p. 33) || ** A subdivision of a fonds containing a body of related records corresponding to administrative subdivisions in the originating agency or organization or, when that is not possible, to geographical, chronological, functional, or similar groupings of the material itself. When the creating body has a complex hierarchical structure, each sub-fonds has as many subordinate sub-fonds as are necessary to reflect the levels of the hierarchical structure of the primary subordinate administrative unit. (ICA, 1999, p. 11) ** || 20101019 || 38 ||
 * Bibliography**

Directions des Archives de France. (2002). //Dictionnaire de terminologie archivistique//. Retrieved October 19, 2010 from http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/3226. ICA. (1999). //ISAD(G): Ge////neral International Standard Archival Description//. Retrieved October 17, 2010 from []. Taylor, A. G. & Joudrey, D. N. (2009). The organization of information. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. (Library and information sciences text series).


 * Term || Term in French || Definition || Date || Number ||
 * Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) (Taylor, 2009, p. 202). || Spécifications fonctionelles des notices bibliographiques (SFNB) (Salaün & Arsenault, 2009, p. 54). || A conceptual model (entity-relationship model) that identifies various entities found in the bibliographic universe, attributes associated with those entities, relationships among the entities, uses of bibliographic data by information seekers, and the relationships between the attributes and the uses of bibliographic data (Taylor, 2009, 457). || 20101019 || 15 ||

References:

Salaün, J.-M. & Arsenault, C. (2009). //Introduction aux sciences de l'information.// Montréal, Canada: Les Presses de l'Université de Montreal. Taylor, A. G. & Joudrey, D. N. (2009). //The organization of information//. (3rd ed.) Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. (Library and information sciences text series).

(Categories for the Description of Works of Art) (Taylor & Joudrey, 2009, p. 229) || **CDWA** (Catégories pour la description d'euvres d'art) || **CDWA-Lite**
 * **Term** || **Traduction française** || **Description** || **Date** || **no**. ||
 * **CDWA**

“CDWA Lite is an XML schema to describe a format for core records for works of art and material culture. CDWA Lite is based on the Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA), a metadata standard developed by the Art Information Task Force (AITF). CDWA Lite records are intended for contribution to union catalogs and other repositories using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting protocol. Because of its focus on 'core' records, CDWA deals with only a subset of the data elements contained in CIDOC CRM, and is much simpler. CDWA Lite has 22 elements; 9 of these are required” (CHIN, 2009). “The Metropolitan Museum staff decided to express information about their objects using CDWA-Lite, an XML data schema developed as a joint effort between the J. Paul Getty Trust, RLG Programs/OCLC, and ARTstor for describing cultural works and their visual surrogates. CDWA-Lite, based on a small subset of fields from the Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA), represents the minimal set of data fields deemed necessary for describing cultural works and their visual surrogates in preparation for resource discovery in online environments. CDWA- Lite is intentionally “light” to lower the barrier for cultural heritage institutions wishing to share content. The CDWA-Lite schema is designed to be used with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI- PMH) that facilitates the sharing and updating of information between the provider and the distributor. Once MediaBin was fully implemented, the Metropolitan Museum staff and ARTstor began sharing the information formatted according to CDWA-Lite and harvested in a server-to-server exchange” (Allen, 2009). “A new standard is being developed, incorporating CDWA Lite and additional data in an even-oriented schema: LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects)” (Getty, 2010). || 20101029 || Tina Gervais & Channarong Intahchomphoo ||


 * Bibliography**

Allen, N. (2009). Approaches to Distribution of Fee-Free Images: Case Studies of Three Museums. //Connexions//. Retrieved October 29, 2010 from []

CDWA-Lite XML Schema. (n.d.). In CHIN’s Professional Excange. Retrieved October 29, 2010 from []

The J. Paul Getty Trust. (2010). CDWA Lite. //Categories for the Description of Works of Art//. Retreived October 29, 2010 from http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/cdwalite.html


 * **Term** || **Term in French** || **Definition** || **Date** || **Names** ||
 * **Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)** (Taylor & Jourdrey, 2009, p. 230). || **CCO** (RCIP, 2009, ¶ 1) || Cataloging of Cultural Objects is a cultural standard for communities that describe works of art, architecture, cultural artifacts, and images. It prescribes the data values and defines the order, syntax and form in which the values are to be entered into a data structure (Taylor & Joudrey, 2009, p. 447).

What CCO does, just to hammer it home, is prescribe the data values and defines the order, syntax and form in which the values are to be entered into a data structure. CCO concentrates on the principles of good cataloging and documentation (Taylor & Joudrey, 2009, p. 231).

CCO is divided into 3 parts:

1) The first part is **General Guidelines.** CCO deals with issues such as what unit is being cataloged, what is a work and what is an image, relationships between works and images, specificity and exhaustivity of cataloging, and several different kinds of relationships that may be delineated. The General Guidelines includes a discussion of database design issues and what may be needed for such design. It also discusses authority files and controlled vocabulary.

2) The second part is **Elements**. It is divided into chapters on: object naming, creator information, physical characteristics, stylistic, cultural and chronological information, location and geography, subject, class, description and view information. Each chapter has discussion of each concept, the rules for the elements having to do with that concept and ways for presenting the data for display and indexing.

3) The third part is **authorities** for personal and corporate names, geographic places, concepts, and subjects (International Organization for Standardization, 2010, Development Process, ¶1).

Developing guidelines for cultural heritage is especially difficult, since cultural objects have a tendency to be unique, difficult to describe, and may be entirely unrelated to other objects. (ALA, 2006, ¶4) || 20101024 || Emily Hanlon and Sophie Tilgner ||
 * References:**

ALA. (2006). E xecutive Summary. //Cataloging Cultural Objects//. Retrieved from []

Taylor, A. G., & Joudrey, D. N. (2009). //The organization of information//. (3rd ed.) Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. (Library and information sciences text series).

Réseau canadien d'information sur le patrimonie. (2009). //Sommaire: Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO), A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images.// Retrieved from []