Message-Id: <200004172130.OAA16548@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:16:14 -0700 From: Geri Bunker Ingram <mailto:bunker@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> Subject: Re: Image Database Contributions To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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Kristine,
At the University of Washington, we're using CONTENT, developed here on
campus, to manage digital assets. Many of our collections are
collaboratively built. So far we've digitized library-held photos, maps,
text and faculty-owned 35mm slides. One of the faculty collections is over
6,600 images now, and contains contributed images from around the world.
Another is the product of a three-institution collaboration. We're also in
the process of a statewide grant to document "best practices" in
*collaborative* digital imaging.
You may see our collections at http://content.lib.washington.edu and you can
read more about CONTENT http://content.engr.washington.edu. It's an
extremely fast client-server
management system which can handle any digital object you can describe with
textual metadata. We currently have the Dublin Core element set "built-in"
as a default entry template. You may add other fields, use as few as you
want (except the unique identifier, of course) and can map customized field
labels for display to your users. Collections can be searched in
combination,
transparently to the user.
CONTENT has a distributed, acquisition model, and can be maintained remotely
through a simple Web interface. There are several levels of password
protection, so collections can be protected and yet shared. We're very happy
with it and are actively engaged in helping with its enhancement.
Geri Bunker Ingram
Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Program
University of Washington Libraries
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From: Kristine R. Brancolini <mailto:brancoli@INDIANA.EDU>
To: <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: Image Database Contributions
> 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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