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[log in to unmask] "MARY S. MCCUTCHEON" writes:
> I wouldn't use a prefab key word list for a unique photo collection.
> First you have to anticipate most frequent likely use of the collection.
> It all depends what this collection is about. The time I catalogued a
> photo collection, my key words contained references to plane crashes,
> landing strips, bombs exploding, vegetation, military installations,
> rock formations, and human settlements. The collection is aerial photos
> taking during WWII bombing missions. It is used by a few historians,
> an occasional archeologists, but mostly island biogeographers interested
> in vegetation and coastline changes. I would hate to think my scheme of
> keywords would be lifted and applied to anyone else's collection!
>
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Patricia Reynolds
Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum / Freelance Curator
16 Gibsons Green
Heelands
Milton Keynes
MK13 7NH
ENGLAND
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