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About Canto Cumulus

  • A quick description of the Cumulus Environment
  • Some Guidelines before Starting Cumulus
  • Read the Manual
  • Central File Server
  • Image Naming
  • Copyright Issues
  • Opening a Catalog
  • Setting Catalog Options
  • Assigning Status
  • Cataloging Images
  • Assigning Categories
  • Deleting Categories
  • Searching for Images
  • When to Contact the Administrator

    • Indexing Your Images

  • Category Headers
  • Why it is important to have a controlled vocabulary
  • The Art and Architecture Thesaurus
  • The Thesaurus for Graphical Materials
  • The Concept of Sameness
  • The Attributes of Images
  • Searching for & Assigning Terms to your category list from the Online Thesauri

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