CCO in Action: Related Work Context
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CCO in Action: Related Work Context
- 1. Cataloging Cultural Objects CCO in Action Related Work Context
- 2. Focus of the Work Record Daisy Chain Dress, 1925, Vassar College Costume Collection Born-digital images of the dress Photo of the donor’s mother wearing the dress Letter from the donor each is an imageOf the dress photograph is a work that depicts the dress letter is a work that references the dress
- 5. “Relationships should be displayed in a way that is clear to the end user.” (p. 18) “Relationships should be reciprocal so that a search on one entity can lead to the other.” (p. 22) “CCO recommends that the type of relationship between the work being cataloged and the related work be indicated.” (p. 22) Relationships should be: for example, as used in these examples: relationship type reciprocal relationship type related to related to image of image is depicts depicted in references is referenced by
- 6. All images are of the same object; images may show different views, from different dates Necessary access is in Image Title (View) which must include • Title of Work and description of view • Date (if known) Image records linked to the Dress
- 9. “CCO recommends that catalogers distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic relationships.” (p. 13). “An intrinsic relationship is essential and must be recorded to enable effective searches.” (p. 13) whole/part relationships group / collection relationships series relationships “An extrinsic relationship is defined as one in which two or more works have a relationship that is informative, but not essential.” (p. 17) Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Relationships
- 10. Related Finding Aid - Photograph depicted in Photograph of Kathryn Keeler Sherrill carrying the Daisy Chain; photograph; unknown photographer; Vassar College Photograph Files, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries. https://specialcollections.vassar.edu/collections/archives/findingaids/miscellane ous/vc_student_materials.html
- 11. Related Digital Archive Item - Photograph depicted in Photograph of Kathryn Keeler Sherrill carrying the Daisy Chain; photograph; unknown photographer; Vassar College Digital Library; https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/islandora/object/vassar%3A 51930
- 12. Related Finding Aid - Letter is referenced by Letter from Les Sherrill, Jr.; letter (correspondence); Les Sherrill Jr.; Vassar College Student Materials Collection, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries; https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/islandora/object/vassar%3A45831#page /1/mode/1up
- 13. Related Digital Archive Item - Letter is referenced by Letter from Les Sherrill, Jr.; letter (correspondence); Les Sherrill Jr.; Vassar College Digital Library; https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/islandora/object/vassar%3A 45831#page/1/mode/1up
- 14. grid of attached files shown at top of webpage metadata begins just under file images grid of other related works shown at bottom of webpage Display Thumbnails of Related Images and Related Works
- 16. Watch more of this series on VRA’s Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/vravideo Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO): vraweb.org/resources/cataloging-cultural-objects/ VRA Core: core.vraweb.org/ Interested in learning more?
- 17. Cataloging Cultural Objects This video series was developed by the CCO Sub-committee of the VRA Cataloging and Metadata Standards Committee Arden Kirkland, sub-committee chair Jonathan Cartledge Sheryl Frisch Susan Jane Williams Credits
Editor's Notes
- In this video we’ll look at the guidance CCO provides for representing relationships not only between works and images, but also to other related works.
- As the focus of this example, here’s a dress from the Vassar College Costume Collection that was worn by a student carrying the Daisy Chain, a commencement tradition at Vassar. For this collection, the artifacts of clothing are considered the central focus of the collection. Images of that individual garment are considered to be images of that work. However there are also other artifacts related to the garment, like this letter from a donor and a photograph of their mother wearing the dress. Related works like this might be in the VCCC, or in the college’s Archives and Special Collections.
- Here are some highlights from the work record for this dress. This collection uses Omeka for web publishing, with a combination of Dublin Core and VRA Core elements as a structural standard and CCO as the content standard guiding how the entries are formatted.
- Principle #8 from CCO is important here: “Be consistent in establishing relationships between works and images, between a group or collection and works, among works, and among images.” Examples shown here use the display format used in CCO, with the related work in a label form that concatenates the title, work type, creator display, and repository information for items in external collections. Other specific structural or encoding standards may approach this differently, for example entering the relationship type and identifier of the related work separately, or supporting different ways of linking both internally and externally, especially to include URIs for linked data.
- The main thing is that “Relationships should be displayed in a way that is clear to the end user.” (p. 18) CCO also recommends the use of reciprocal relationships, meaning that each side of the relationship points to the other. Ideally this is functionality built into your system so that when one relationship is entered, the other is created automatically. CCO and other standards offer guidance on specific terminology to represent different types of relationships, including the different phrasing that is appropriate for each side of the relationship, as you see in the table here and in the examples in the following slides.
- Any images of this object can be linked through Image Records, which all refer back to the same object but may have different views, dates, or rights, etc.
- In this work record for the related photograph, note the different agents, dates, extents, etc., along with how the reciprocal relationships are identified.
- Here also is the work record for the related letter.
- These relationships would mostly be considered as extrinsic relationships. CCO defines an intrinsic relationship as one that is essential and must be recorded to enable effective searches. Common intrinsic relationships are whole/part relationships, group / collection relationships, and series relationships. The artifacts shown in this example are mainly able to stand alone, and their relationship is not essential, except perhaps for the letter, which is only in the collection because of its reference to the dress and is probably not of interest to researchers outside of that.
- The photograph and letter we have looked at is in the Vassar College Costume Collection itself, but there are many other related materials in Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections Library. What would it look like to express that kind of external relationship? Here’s an example of the finding aid for the collection that holds many photographs like the one shown previously, with some examples of folders in the container list that might relate to this dress. At the top is how the relation display could appear with citation information and an external link.
- Some individual items have even been digitized in Vassar’s digital library and could be linked even more directly.
- Here’s another finding aid, this time to Vassar’s extensive Student Materials Collection, which includes letters, some of which discuss the Daisy Chain tradition. Even better, some of these have been digitized and the finding aid links directly to the digitized item in the Digital Library, as show here in blue.
- Again, this could be linked directly from the record for the dress. Reciprocal relationships pointing from the archive to the costume collection are not likely to be prioritized unless the relationship were to be intrinsic, for example if they did hold a letter which did specifically mention a dress in our collection. In that case a link to the work record for the dress could also be provided in the related material section of the finding aid or in a relation field in the record for a specific letter.
- Different systems can structure and display these relationships in different ways. As mentioned before, the VCCC is currently using Omeka as a content management system. In Omeka, works are considered as “Items” and Images are “Files” attached to those items. Items can also be related to each other as related works. When relationships are expressed with standardized identifiers, it can add even more functionality for display. For Vassar, the template for the page display for each work shows a grid of related thumbnail images at the top of the page, the metadata for the work under that, and then a grid of thumbnail images for related works at the bottom. Some more visually oriented users who are less attentive to the relationships when expressed as text in the metadata are more likely to click on those thumbnail images to explore further.
- Also, as seen in the work records shown earlier, the individual records can link to online exhibits, like the one shown here, where the artifacts have been highlighted and discussed in a more interpretive setting.