Description of Early Californian and Western Pictorial Material
1. Collection of Early Californian and Western Pictorial Material BY MutaharaMobashar Digital Repository:
2. Honeyman Digital Archival Project The main goal of this project was to make the Bancroft Library’s Honeyman Collection available on the internet. This collection is one of the premier sources of pictorial documentation of the history of the West and California. The collection is a valuable resource for teaching and learning.
3. History The Honeyman collection was originally housed in Robert Honeyman’s private museum at Rancho Los Cerritos, CA. It was acquired by The Bancroft Library in 1963. It was never exhibited in all its entirety.
4. Overview The Honeyman Digital Archival Project was completed on November 1, 2008. The collection contains over 2300 items. Views depict the changing landscape of the West under the impact of westward migration. The emphasis is on early California history and the Gold Rush Period. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf9p3012wq&chunk.id=scopecontent-1.3.4&brand=oac
5. MOAC Project The Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an SGML standard. The purpose was to find resources and technology to make special collections available online. The Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) project is an attempt to make special collections available virtually. The Honeyman Project is a first major contributor to the MOAC project. http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/elings.html
15. MOAC/Honeyman Project The Honeyman Collection is amongst the first EAD finding aids to provide this level of access to a pictorial content. It is going to provide a model for the development of the MOAC project. http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/elings.html
16. Descriptive Standards and Methodology The collection comprised primarily of original works of arts so it looked at museum and visual resource standards for description.
17. Descriptive Standards and Methodology The following resources were consulted during the development of descriptive standards: USMARC (Machine Readable Code) VRA (Visual Resource Association) Core Categorieshttp://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/dsc.html ICOM-CIDOC (Comiti international pour la documentation)http://www.cidoc.icom.org/guide0.htm CDWA (Getty Information Institute Categories for the Description of Works of Art)http://www.ahip.getty.edu/cdwa/ REACH element sethttp://www.rlg.org/reach.elements.html EAD (Encoded Archival Description)http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ead/ Elisabeth W. Betz. Graphic Materials: rules for describing original items and historical collections. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982.
23. Metadata Standards The database is hierarchical. The descriptions follow the rules set forth in Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2) and Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS). http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/loyaltyoath/technical.html
