Message-Id: <199905101959.MAA47684@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:34:15 -0600 From: ST GRANT <mailto:st.grant@CCMAIL.ADP.WISC.EDU> Subject: Poster "thumbnails" To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
We're beginning to survey, flatten, organize and house a large poster
collection and would like to take digital "snapshots" or "thumbnails"
of each, for facilitating future access to the collections.
We would like to do this "imaging" quickly as we work on the
collections and then link the images to a database of additional
information we gather about each. I have a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 10x
digital camera that would take good "snapshots" of the posters.
Of the many questions I could (or perhaps, "should") ask, here are a
few basics:
1) Has anyone tried anything similar--successful or not?
2) Any thoughts, advice, information, about the approach, in general?
3) If the general approach is okay--what's the best way to store and
provide access to thumbnails for quick access?
I'm feeling somewhat sheepish asking this--trying to take this quick
approach to capturing poster images and knowing full well of extensive
planning and preservation requirements for imaging.
Well--better to have asked...