How best to represent multiple views of same work/piece/sculpture?

[Darryl Dieckman]

I am new and evaluating the features of ResourceSpace for a small archive that will feature the sculptural works of multiple artists.  So, many artists have many pieces that have many images (front, back, detail, constructions, etc.).  

I would like to represent this logical structure in ResourceSpace.  Is this a good idea and how would I go about setting this up?  I am exploring "alternate files", "related resources",  "collections", and metadata. 

Perhaps the recommended solution is to keep the repository rather flat and use metadata queries to build up a logical structure that is presented to end users in a web front end like WordPress.  

So many (too many) wonderful features and possibilities.

Can someone point me in the right direction with recommendations and pitfalls?

Thanks

Darryl

[rwr...@sbbg.org]

I use related resources. You could also combine the images into a PDF as a single resource, and the user could page through the views in the preview. It kind of depends on how your users will want to find and use the resources.

Randy Wright

[Oliver NUA]

Hi Darryl,

We handle this by combining the images into a single PDF, as Randy mentioned above.

The only downside is, when viewing the resource, it's not clear there are multiple images associated with it until you click on the preview. Only then can you scroll through the images.

Cheers,

Oliver

[David Dwiggins]

Many museums (including ours) use an external collections management database to track the "objects" themselves, and then use a number assigned by that system to track link together representations of that object in the ResourceSpace database. This requires a level of integration between two systems, and may be overkill for what you're doing. Our integration is custom to our oddball system, but I know the RS team has done shrinkwrapped integrations with a couple of museum systems (TMS and EMU, if I recall.)

Depending on the number of sculptures involved, you could also just use a sculpture name/title field as a category tree or dynamic keyword list, and then tag each image of the same sculpture using that flag. This would let you pull together all media for the individual piece by just searching by that field.

-David Dwiggins

Historic New England

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