Re: largest web photo database?

From: Debra Shapiro (dshapiro@SLIS.WISC.EDU)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 14:16:49 CST

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Date:         Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:16:49 -0600
From: Debra Shapiro <mailto:dshapiro@SLIS.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: largest web photo database?
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    >Hi,
    >We are considering a project to digitize approximately 10,000 postcards and
    >put them on our web site. I'm if anyone knows if there are any other image
    >sites that large or larger? If anyone has an URL for one, please share it
    >with me. Thanks.
    >
    >Errol Stevens
    >Archives and Special Collections
    >Loyola Marymount University

    here are just a few biggies:

    Duke University put up the William Gedney photograph collection, which some press releases said is 9,000 images; currently at the site it says 4,900 photographs + ca. 1500 images of writing and photgraphic book projects http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/

    Denver Public Library had been digitizing photographs since 1995 and they have somewhere between 70,000 and 90,000 online now at: http://gowest.coalliance.org/index.html

    Picture Australia is a neat cross-collection search of image collections at six cultural institutions and universities in Australia, where the image databases are kept at the home insitutions, and the search engine searches an index of Dublin Core metadata. The image databases vary from about 7,000 images to about 160,000 http://www.pictureaustralia.org/about.html

    Of course there is Corbis, the comercial stockhouse created by Bill Gates buying up the Bettmann Archive, Hulton-Deutsch and other historical image collections: http://www.corbisimages.com/ They say they 1.6 million images online

    All these sites use widely variant combinations of hardware & software & metadata -- Gedney uses EAD & TEI and DynaWeb, Denver Public Library is part of the Colorado Digital Library, which uses OCLC SiteSearch and Dublin Core; they also have MARC records at the item level for all the photographs....Picture Australia uses Dublin Core and html pages, Corbis (of course) some proprietary scheme.

    there are a great many images of postcards from the Curt Teich Postcard Archive (Illinois) in Corbis. Best wishes, Debra. 

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