Cultural Object Website

PLO:

PLO 4- Evaluate systems and technologies relevant to a particular information context

Additional PLOs

PLO 3- Analyze and engage in the changing cultural, educational, and social roles and responsibilities of librarians/information professionals and the environments they work in within the global society

PLO 5- Identify needs and connect individuals and communities with information that engages and empowers them

Professional Standards/Competencies

ALA Core Competences

5A. Understand the principles, systems, trends, and goals involved in the organization and representation of recorded knowledge and information

5B. Implement the developmental, descriptive, analytical, and evaluative skills needed to organize recorded knowledge and information

5C. Maintain the systems of cataloging, collection, metadata, indexing, and classification standards and structures, and implement methods used to apply, create, and discover recorded knowledge and information, and the weaknesses and strengths of these systems

9A. Identify appropriate technologies and uses that support access to and delivery of library services and resources

AAM Core Standards

Museum demonstrates a commitment to providing the public with physical and intellectual access to the museum and its resources

Project Description

As part of the LIS 60635: Cultural Heritage Informatics course, I had to select a cultural object or historic landmark that was not well documented and create a website for it. For my cultural object or historic landmark, I chose the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park, which is a site located in my hometown of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Once I had chosen an object or landmark, I then had to describe it and create an item record for it using the Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) standard, which provides guidelines for how to select and format data that provides the basis for metadata. After that, I had to find images of it and create view records of the images using the CCO. Then I had to identify related events and create an interactive timeline of events online. Finally, I had to add images of the landmark to the HistoryPin mashup website and create a concept map. The records, images, timeline, concept map, and a link to the landmark on HistoryPin were all included in the final project website.

This project provided invaluable experience in learning how to use technology to present, organize, describe, document, and promote cultural objects. Through this project, I was introduced to a variety of digital resources that can be used to increase engagement and provide additional access to cultural objects. The project also allowed me to gain additional experience in learning how to use CCO to describe objects and create item and image records.

Cultural Object Website

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