Culture Geeks - December's talk: multilingual subject access to collections

The next Culture Geeks’ talk is a special Christmas edition, with
speaker Etienne Posthomus, who will be joining us from Amsterdam to talk
about:
" The polyglot collection – making multilingual subject access to collections possible using ICONCLASS and Arkyves "

At http://www.arkyves.org/
Arkyves you will find a collection of images and descriptive metadata
interpreting those images, and scholarly literature about the theory
and practice of inter-preting images.
Using this service a collection can provide sophisticated multilingual thematic access to their data.

In this talk we will:

* show an example of collections that use AHIM to provide multilingual
searching and browsing on their websites eg. French Emblems at Glasgow
University
* look at how data is aggregated in Arkyves
* peek ‘under-the-bonnet’ to see how the back-end works (using OAI-PMH
or a static file on a URL) get a brief overview of the standard
classification system http://www.iconclass.nl/

…and if time allows we can also talk about:

* How to describe your own collection using ICONCLASS
* The SKOS version of ICONCLASS for use by Museum Management vendors examples: AdLib (Netherlands) & Imdas Pro (Austria)
* Converting (or mapping) existing classification systems to ICONCLASS for instant multilingual access.

To book a place:  sign-up on Upcoming or call: 01273 206306

There is no bar, but you are welcome to bring your own drinks.