Sample Photo Keyword Terms
Prepared by Stephanie
Willen Brown
Library Director
Springfield (Mass.) Union-News and Sunday Republican
Visual Edge '98 Archive Program
September 1, 1998
These keywords accompany examples of photographs
from the Springfield (Mass.) Union-News which were used to
demonstrate certain aspects of indexing newspaper photographs in an
electronic archive. This display includes the photograph, cutline,
photographer, keyword, and sample free text entries. They were used
as part of a presentation at the Archive Program at Visual Edge '98,
September 1, 1998, St. Petersburg, Florida. The text
of the presentation is also available.
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KEYWORDS
AIDS - the disease, not implements that assist.
AMUSEMENT use with PARKS for amusement park, Mount Tom,
Riverside, etc.
ANIMAL
ANNIVERSARY
ANNUAL use for annual event such as Sheriffs clambake,
Pynchon awards, etc.
ARREST
BUSINESS
CHILD - use for age 3 to teen age; then use TEENAGER, as appropriate;
use BABY for age 2 and younger.
COMPUTER use with MILENNIUM for Y2K
CONSTRUCTION - use as a verb or a reference to the activity; use
BUILDING as a noun, referring to objects.
CONTEST - use as noun. Use with BEAUTY for Beauty Contest.
CRAFT - handicraft.
CRIME
CURRENCY - see also COIN.
DANCE
DEMONSTRATION - a group of people advocating a non-violent action or
position; see also CROWD, RIOT, VIOLENCE.
EMERGENCY
ELDERLY
ETHNIC
FAD - see also FASHION and HAIR.
FARM - see also AGRICULTURE, GARDEN.
FESTIVAL
not homicide; use MURDER.
HOMOSEXUAL
JEWELRY
JUVENILE - people of teen age linked to illegal activities; use
TEENAGER in other cases.
LIBRARY - includes archive in some cases; see also MUSEUM.
not looting, use ROBBERY.
LOVE
MEDICAL
MILENNIUM. Use with COMPUTER for Y2K problem.
MURDER
PARADE
PARK - use as a noun, with AMUSEMENT for Riverside, Mount Tom, etc.
Be sure name of park is in cutline (Stanley Park, Forest Park, etc.)
PLAYGROUND
PLAYING
POLICE
POLITICIAN
RAIN
RELIGION
ROBBERY
SCHOOL
SUMMER
TEACHER
TEENAGER - in normal settings; use JUVENILE in connection with lawbreaking.
TRIAL
VANDALISM
WORKING
not Y2K; use MILENNIUM and COMPUTER
PHOTO & GRAPHIC TYPES
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These terms are used to describe the photo itself or the way it was
made, not its content.
Photos
ACTION
AERIAL
DAY
EXTERIOR
GROUP
INTERIOR
MUG - photo that can be cropped to a good head shot.
NIGHT
PORTRAIT - formal photo
SKYLINE
Graphics
CHART
DIAGRAM
DRAWING - a scene.
MAP
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This list is modified from: the TRIBUNE
COMPANY PHOTO ARCHIVING TASK FORCE, posted to http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/conferences/sla1998/tribusage.html,
JULY, 1995.
A good reference book for this type of work is the Thesaurus
for Graphic Materials, written and published by the Library
of Congress. 1994. ISBN: 0-8444-0889-1. Online at http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/
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Last Updated: 04/9/2001
Carolyn Edds
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