Conceptual Analysis
1. Determine what the resource IS or IS ABOUT
- Consider function, purpose
- Consider the physical nature of the resource; identify physical form or genre
- Consider its place within a composition or series
- Consider the content of the resource; identify the concept or combination of concepts
representing the topical coverage
EXAMPLE:
Picasso and Portraiture
http://www.club-internet.fr:80/picasso/homepage.html
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Description |
Concepts |
AAT terms |
| Purpose |
an exhibition of Picasso’s work in portraits |
Pablo Picasso, portraits, exhibitions |
portraits, exhibitions |
| Physical nature |
a virtual gallery of digital images |
galleries, digital images |
galleries, digital images |
| Place within a composition or series |
not applicable |
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| Content |
a collection of Picasso’s portraits; women, men,
children, families, nudes |
portraits, women, men, children, families, nudes |
portraits, women, men, children, families, nudes |
2. Determine what a resource is USED FOR or what PURPOSE IT SERVES
- Consider why the resource was produced or created
- Consider its usefulness to as many potential user groups as possible
- Consider who created or produced the resource
- Consider the resource’s relationship to other resources (objects, images and text)
EXAMPLE:
ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
http://adam.ac.uk/
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Description |
Concepts |
| Why created |
to provide a gateway to quality assured information in art
and design on the Internet |
quality assurance, search engines, information gateways |
| Usefulness |
in the first instance, a resource for students and staff in
higher education; in the second instance, potentially for anybody with an interest or
working in the art and design field |
higher education |
| Who created |
part of the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) |
electronic libraries programme, elib |
| Relationship to other resources |
an Internet search engine, a resource to facilitate the
location of other resources, a sister to other eLib projects in the Access to Network
Resources area of the programme |
search engines, resource lists, Access to Network
Resources, ANR |
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