An Integrated Tool for

A Research product based on a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection Project Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Kent State University Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.

• The Metadata Template [Based on VRA Core version 3.0, for creating descriptive records for historical costumes]
• Supporting Documents
  • Vocabulary [Suggested terms for use in cataloging fashion objects] ,[linked with the template]
    • Types of Objects
    • Materials
    • Structure
  • Metadata Definition Documents
    • VRA Version 3 [Original definitions]
    • Extended VRA 3 Definitions [linked with the template]
• Technology component
  • MS Access Database
  • Visual Basic program

   

  LINKS

• Kent State University Museum http://www.kent.edu/museum/costume/
• Kent State University WAW prototype http://newmedia.kent.edu/waw
• Report submitted to OCLC Annual Review of OCLC Research
• A Sample Record in VRA format
• A Sample Record in USMARC format
• A Sample Record in Dublin Core format

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  # Note: This research is funded by OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant Project. A full paper based on this report was published in the Journal of American Society for Information Science (JASIS) Volume 50, Number 13, 1999. The template and metadata definition document are based on newly published VRA Core version 3.0. Please send email to mzeng@kent.edu if you have any question.
  

  Images of the silhouettes used in this paper are links from "Bissonnette on Costume, A Visual Dictionary of Costume" by Anne Bissonnette of the Kent State University Museum. http://www.kent.edu/museum/costume/

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