The Descriptive Challenges of Fiber Art.

Lunin, Lois F.

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Publication Date: 1990

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The Descriptive Challenges of Fiber Art.

Lunin, Lois F.

Library Trends, v38 n4 p697-716 Spr 1990

A definition of fiber art, its history, materials and techniques, vocabularies, and creators and users of those vocabularies offer background for understanding the problems in preparing surrogates of this relatively recent art form for text and image databases. Four examples of fiber image information systems are described. (32 references) (EAM)

Descriptors: Databases, Hypermedia, Indexing, Machine Readable Cataloging, Thesauri, Vocabulary

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive

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