Unit 10 cataloging my collection

With my collection, I have mostly used keywords and have also used tags. With tags, I guess there is a certain kind of democracy that could exist in that tags that are kind of outliers will be shown to be exactly that while tags that are more useful or popular or "correct" will get used or clicked or otherwise utilized. I guess with these exercises, since the person who put the collection together is also doing the cataloging, it's much easier and clearer to express what I want to show. If it were a cataloger who didn't know the creator of the content, there there is a huge semantic game the cataloger must do, attempting to interpret what the object's creator had in mind, which is generaly pretty straight forward regarding that object's primary subject but can get bogged down with additional topics. When it comes to classification, I have come to understand that many books I have enjoyed were not classified by what I perceived the primary topic to be. A case in point was a book about an attempted coup d'etat in America called The Plot Against the White House is classified under Dewey as a biography of Smedly Butler, the man who quashed the plot, there are many other examples I've found, even as exercises for SIRLS classes in the past two semesters. 

Also my objects are pretty straightforward, an image of a person who died long before photography was around or an architectural reconstruction of a place as it stood thousands of years ago.  The complexity gets in classifying the medium the image is in: coin portraits, marble sculptures, encaustic paintings.

I appreciate Drupal's comments area where I can attempt to elaborate with further text: "This is a bust of the boy emperor, Elagabalus. This is the so-called second portrait style, in a cuirass to emphasize his military prowess and identiy him with his military supporters." That is not exactly information you can store in the Dublin Core. With Eprints, I wasn't able to add any of this, it seemed there were only a few areas where I could add text. Eprints seems to have a cataloging feature structured on Library of Congress classification several of the subjects of my portraits have their own listings in LoC, but Eprints seems uncooperative.