Greetings,

Apologies if this is wrong place to place to post these questions. Although
our institution is not a museum, we have been using EmbARK to catalog art
objects. We are looking at adopting metadata standards to improve our
processes with description and access of art. Specifically, I am looking at
Categories for the Description of  Works of Art (CDWA) and Cataloging
Cultural Objects (CCO). One of the problems we are finding with EmbARK is
the application has way more fields than we need for our purpose, and so we
are working on determining a set of core and recommended fields to focus on
metadata cleanup. Would anyone be willing to share any of the following?

   - What cataloging standards are you using?
   - What categories are using for fields such as classification and
   work/object type (AAT, local vocab, etc.)?
   - What are your core metadata fields.
   - If you use EmbARK, how are you mapping their metadata fields to
   cataloging standards?
   - If you use EmbARK, what fields are you using drop down choicelists?
   - Do you recommend any other digital asset management systems as an
   alternative to EmbARK? For example TMS Collections?

Thanks,

Kevin Cretsos
Library Systems Support Specialist
Roesch Library
University of Dayton
(937) 229-3674
https://udayton.edu/libraries

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