Message-Id: <200004171844.LAA20894@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:42:40 -0500 From: "Kristine R. Brancolini" <mailto:brancoli@INDIANA.EDU> Subject: Image Database Contributions To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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The Digital Library Program at Indiana University is currently working
with our Center on Political Theory and Policy Analysis to create a
web-based pre-print archive to support international scholarship on the
management of common pool resources (CPR). The librarian at the center
would also like to create a database of contributed images, similar to the
database of contributed papers. Some of these images would be linked to
papers, but most would be independent. In fact, they might be additional
images related to research reported in the papers, but this would not be a
requirement. Our goal is to create a system that would allow scholars
from around the world to send us image files in specified formats with
descriptive information. We will then offer a seachable database of these
images on the web.
Have any of you created such a database? We are in the early discussion
stages and while there are numerous models for creating a working paper
archive, this does not seem to be the case for image databases. We can
extrapolte the guidelines and procedures from the image collections we
have created, but the whole idea of having other people contribute the
images is new to us. Your experience with this sort of database would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Kristine R. Brancolini, Digital Library Program
Main Library E048, 1320 E. Tenth Street
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812.855.3710 | Fax: 812.856.2062 | Email: mailto:brancoli@indiana.edu
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