Tacoma Then and Again

Last Update: August 1, 2008

Field Name

DC Mapping

Authority File

Comments

Title

 

Title:

searchable,

public/staff field

Tacoma Public Library’s Pierce County Building Index

Brief descriptive phrase of the building or public space in the photograph.  Use the name of the building or public space at the time of photograph was taken.  If the name is unknown, use a generic name, such as “house” or “storefronts.”  For views of city use term “cityscape” along with general location of where the photographs was taken.  Put year the photograph was taken in parenthesis after the title, using ca. if date is approximate.  Do not abbreviate names.

Note: Title will display next to thumbnails, with rephotograph pair displayed next to each other.

Examples (of rephotography pairs):

Union Station (1979)

Union Station Courthouse (2008)

Snoqualmie Falls Power Company Transformer House (1979)

University of Washington Tacoma Library (2008)

700 Block of Pacific Avenue (1979)

700 Block of Pacific Avenue (2008)

Cityscape from Market Street (1979)

Cityscape from Market Street (2008)

View or Description

 

Title:

searchable,

public/staff field

 

View and/or aspect of the object shown.  May include:

  • Type of view (i.e. overall, interior, detail, etc.)
  • If detail view, name of object being photographed
  • Orientation of the view (i.e. direction of camera’s vantage point)

Examples

Looking toward the south

Overall view of façade, from across the street

Detail view of ceiling

Photographer

Creator:

searchable,

public/staff field

 

Name of photographer.  Use: last name, first name.

Date (display)

 

Date:

not searchable, public/staff field

 

Date that the photograph was taken.  Use: [numeric day] Month [year].  Note year if only that is known.  If precise date is unknown, use ca.

Examples

ca.1979

1923

10 July, 2008

Date (search)

 

Date:

searchable,

staff-only field

 

Reflects the searchable version of Date (display) field.  If the date is a single year, it is the same in both fields.  If the Date (display) field uses a “circa” (e.g. ca. 1979), the Date (search) field contains the expanded version so that searching will find dates covered by the “circa” date.  Five years on either side of the “ca.”

Example

For “ca. 1915” in Date (display) field: 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920

Earliest date

None:

not searchable,

staff-only field

 

Reflects the earliest date recorded in the Date (display) field.  Input it using the ISO 8601 format (YYYY, or YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD as needed).

Note: If Date (display) is a single date, then Earliest date and Latest date will be the same.  If Date (display) contains a “ca.” date, then this field will have the earliest date recorded in Date (search).

Latest date

None:

not searchable,

staff-only field

 

Reflects the latest date recorded in the Date (display) field.  Input it using the ISO 8601 format (YYYY, or YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD as needed).

Note: If Date (display) is a single date, then Earliest date and Latest date will be the same.  If Date (display) contains a “ca.” date, then this field will have the latest date recorded in Date (search).

Building or public space (LC)

 

Subject:

searchable,

public/staff field

LCAF

The recognized name of the building or public space, according to the LCAF. (If not in LCAF, then use the Tacoma Public Library Pierce County Building Index.)  List prominent buildings even if they are not the primary subject of the photograph but are visible.

Note: Separate multiple entries with a semicolon (;).

Example

Union Station (Tacoma, Wash.)

Building or public space (TPL)

 

Subject:

searchable,

public/staff field

Tacoma Public Library Pierce County Building Index

The recognized name of the building or public space according the Tacoma Public Library Pierce County Building Index.  (Use only if the building is not listed in the LCAF.)  List prominent buildings even if they are not the primary subject of the photograph but are visible.

Note: When taking the name from the Pierce County Building Index and the name does not have the geographic subdivision in parenthesis (city, Wash.), add it to title as appropriate.  Separate multiple entries with a semicolon (;).

Examples

Stadium High School (Tacoma, Wash.)

Wright Park (Tacoma, Wash.)

Architect or designer (LC)

 

Creator:

searchable,

public/staff field

LCAF

Name of the architect or designer, if known.  Use firm names as appropriate.  Check LCAF first.

Note: If multiple there are multiple entries, put <br> between each one.

Examples

Burnham and Root

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

Architect or designer (ULAN)

 

Creator:

searchable,

public/staff field

ULAN

Name of the architect or designer, if known.  Use firm names as appropriate. Check ULAN if the name is not in LCAF

Note: When name is not listed in either authority files but the architect is known, construct personal name: Last name, first name.   If multiple there are multiple entries, put <br> between each one.

Examples

Mock, Ernest

Sexton, F.A.

Address

 

Coverage:

searchable,

public/staff field

Tacoma Public Library Pierce County Building Index

The specific address in buildings in photograph.  Abbreviate street names as they appear in the Tacoma Public Library’s Pierce County Building Index.

Examples

1717 Pacific Ave.

1152-56 Fawcett Ave.

900 block, Commerce St.

Subject

 

Subject:

searchable,

public/staff field

AAT

Identify what is in photograph at the time that the picture was taken.  Focus generally on the types of buildings, structures, objects, and spaces that take up most of the photograph.  Construct the subject term using the location facets.

Note: Separate each term with a semicolon (;).

Examples

Derelict buildings – Washington (State) – Tacoma

Intersections – Washington (State) – Tacoma

Drawbridges – Washington (State) – Tacoma

Location

 

Coverage:

searchable,

public/staff field

LCAF

The country, city, and state where the photograph was taken.  Use hierarchal format.

Example

United States –  Washington (State) –  Tacoma

Latitude

Coverage:
searchable,

public/staff field

 

 

 

GPS coordinates in decimal degree format – carried to four places to the right of the decimal. A positive value indicates north of the Equator (i.e. North America).

Example

47.1234

Longitude

Coverage:

searchable,

public/staff field

 

 

GPS coordinates in decimal degree format – carried to four places to the right of the decimal. Areas west of the Prime Meridian (i.e. North America) should be indicated with a negative sign.

Example

-146.1234

Notes

Description:

searchable,

public/staff field

 

Descriptive narrative information about the photograph and its subjects that is otherwise not recorded elsewhere.

Note: Use <br> between separate notes.

Associated image(s)

Relation:

searchable, public/staff field

 

File name for paired photograph(s).

 

More images

Relation:

not searchable, public/staff field

 

When the photograph is of a subject that has a corresponding subject heading in the Tacoma Public Library Photo Archive Provide, create a link to a search for those images.

File name

Identifier:

not searchable,

public/staff field

 

 

 

The file names will be used to sort the images in a search.  Images that constitute a rephotographic pair must have identical file names except for the year that they were photographed.  The following naming convention applies to the files:

location-decadeview##-year.jpg

 

- Location:


When the address is available, use it for the building, along with first three letters of the street.  Use abbreviated version of block (identifying it with “b”) or intersection when available, connecting them with an ampersand.  If address is not available, use first name of place in photograph.

1717 Pacific Avenue = 1717pac

900 block, Commerce Street = 900bcom

South 19th Avenue and Commerce Street = s19com

Wright Park = wri

Cityscape of Tacoma = tac

 

 

- View number:

When the photograph is of a building, note whether the shot is of an exterior (with an “e”) or interior (with an “i”) then the shot number in the series of photographs.  Begin every sequence of photographs with the decade the photograph in which the first photograph was taken, followed by 01.  Number each image in the series sequentially.

First exterior shot from 1922 =e192001

Sixth interior shot from 1979 = i197006

If the photo is of a cityscape or a public space, such as an intersection, identify the direction the camera is facing in:

East facing shot taken in 1945 = e1904001

Southwest facing shot taken in 1979 = sw197001

 

 

- Year:

Put the exact year that the photograph was taken.  If unknown put down date listed after the “ca.”

ca. 1979 = 1979

2008 = 2008

 

Examples (of rephotographic pairs):

 

1717pac-i197015-1979.jpg

1717pac-i197015-2008.jpg

wri-s193002-1933.jpg

wri-s193002-2010.jpg

Digital collection

Relation-Is Part Of: not-searchable, public/staff field

 

 

Tacoma Then and Again

Order number

Identifier:

searchable, public/staff field

 

 

Number that users can reference to order a copy of the digital image.  Begin with UWT-TTA-00001 and number sequentially.

Ordering information

Description:

not searchable, public/staff field

 

 

Instructions for ordering.

Repository photo or negative ID number

Identifier:

searchable, public/staff field

 

Unique identifier assigned by the repository to the photograph or negative.

Example:

CYS-T122

Repository

Source:

not searchable, public/staff field

 

 

The institution holding the original photograph.

Example:

Tacoma Public Library, Northwest Room

Repository collection

Relation-Is Part of: searchable, public/staff field

 

 

Contains the collection name represented as a phrase.

Example:

Cysewski Collection

Object Type

 

Type:

searchable, public/staff field; required field

TGM II

Describes the genre or type of material.

Example:

Photograph

Physical description

 

Format:

not searchable, public/staff field

 

Includes additional descriptive information about type of material or medium, color, and dimensions. Terms for visual materials should be taken from Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections.

Digital reproduction information

Format:

not searchable, public/staff field

 

Describes the digital conversion process, date scanned, etc

Example:

Scanned from photographic print using…

Type

 

Type:

searchable,

staff-only field

DCMI Type Vocabulary

 

Describes the nature or genre of the content of the resource. Select a value from the Dublin Core Type Vocabulary at http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

Examples:
StillImage

Text

Copyright holder

Rights:

not searchable,

public/staff field

 

 

Individual or institution that retains copyright to the visual image.

Administrative notes

 

None:

searchable in dev, non-searchable in live; staff-only field

 

Notes for staff only, notes of an administrative nature.