1. Seneca
Fashion
Resource
Centre
• 15,000+ costumes and accessories
• All donations
• 1840s until present day

2. Wishlist
• Photograph as many costumes as possible in 360 degrees
• Create searchable, browsable, online image repository
• Allow access to images by Seneca staff, students, and
outside fashion community
• Add other multimedia objects such as interviews (text)
and video to repository
• Eventually add photographs of student designs
• Link to other resources in repository records (e.g. links
from Fashion Subject Guide) to create one-stop-shop for
fashion research
• Front page of repository to double as website for physical
Fashion Resource Centre (information, news, updates)

3. Team
Library:
• Tanis Fink
• Carolyn Lam
• Jane Foo
• Rosina Leung
• Lydia Tsai
IT Services:
• Hassan Assiri
• Gino Franceschetti
• Luis Marmelo
School of Fashion:
• Gitte Hansen
• Dale Peers
Seneca College Students:
• Jackie Laine (Independent
Photography)
• Amaryn Boyd (Fashion)
• Elizabeth Burke (Fashion)
• Irina Bikeeva (Fashion)

4. Ortery 360
• Computer-controlled turntable
• Rotates 360°
• Captures between 4 to 200
photos per rotation
• Current settings:
• 45 photos per rotation
• Maximum image quality
(5MP)
• Output JPEGs, HTML + JS
• Play button + magnifying
glass
• Crop profile + save profile

5. Process
Prep costumes and
dress mannequins
Mount on turn-table,
adjust camera, start
program, save
Find info sheets Scan sheets and save in
PDF format
Organize in one folder
• ~ 12 minutes per
costume
• Minimum 3 team
members per shift

6. Current Status
• 1100 items photographed
• Files stored on hard drives in B2082, on
external hard drive, and Sparc4 server
• B2082 available until January
• Dale Peers and students have low availability
due to classes

7. Metadata Wishlist
Browse:
• Date/Style Period
• Classification
• Category
• Label
• Designer
• Colour
Search:
• Accession Number
• Date/Style Period
• Classification
• Category
• Label
• Designer
• Colour
Display:
• Accession Number
• Date/Style Period
• Designer
• Label
• Date/Time Period
• Donor Name
• Item Title
• Description
• History/Provenance
• Materials
• Colour
• Classification
• Category
• Value
• Condition
• Size
• Links to related works
• Links to images

8. VRA Core 4.0
• Designed by visual resources specialists
• Distinguishes between collection, work, and image
• Supports relationships between works and images
and works and works
• Schemas for restricted and unrestricted versions
• Provides values for both display and indexing
• Focus on creation, style, and culture

9. Desired Element VRA Core 4.0
Accession Number Location
Date Date
Style Period stylePeriod
Designer Agent
Label Inscription
Donor Name Source
Item Title Title
Description Description
History/Provenance Description
Materials Material
Colour Material
Classification workType
Category workType
Value Description
Condition Description
Size Measurements
Links to other works Relation
Links to images Relation
Desired Element VRA Core 4.0
Image Number Location
Date Photographed Date
Copyright Rights
Link to works depicted Relation
Link to images in same
series
Relation
View Description Description
Photography Technique Technique
Image Size Measurements
Image RecordWork Record

10. Controlled Vocabulary
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
• Thesaurus for Geographic Names (TGN)
• Union List of Artists’ Names (ULAN)
• Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)
• Seneca Fashion Resource Centre Classification/Categories

11. System Requirements
• Relational database (one item – many files)
• VRA Core compatibility preferred
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant
• Faceted browsing preferred
• Capable of handling minimum 15,000 x 45 = 675,000
images
• Look and feel customizability preferred
• Also consider server type availability