Daguerreobase: New standards for describing daguerreotypes, Europe's earliest photographs

Abstract

The Daguerreobase project has succeeded in developing a proposal for standards and a set of multilingual thesauri to describe the daguerreotype objects and their image content. The Daguerreobase consortium developed an entity and metadata model which is compatible with international standards. From the model, standards for the description of daguerreotype objects and content have been derived. The entity model and the standards are implemented in the new Daguerreobase portal which will be available online from November 2013. The consortium believes that the establishment, adoption and dissemination of these standards through the renewed Daguerreobase portal will increase the level of description of daguerreotypes and enhance access to a little known photographic medium.