Book description
This book explores issues surrounding all aspects of visual collection management, taken from real-world experience in creating management systems and digitizing core content. Readers will gain the knowledge to manage the digitization process from beginning to end, assess and define the needs of their particular project, and evaluate digitization options. Additionally, they will select strategies which best meet current and future needs, acquire the knowledge to select the best images for digitization, and understand the legal issues surrounding digitization of visual collections.- Offers practical information for the busy information professional
- Concentrates solely on image management
- Focuses on unique needs of born digital and digitized images
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of figures, tables, and boxes
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Photographic image history
- Chapter 2: Digital image basics
- Chapter 3: Photographic image issues
- Chapter 4: Photographic image collection management
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Chapter 5: Metadata and information management
- Abstract:
- Introduction
- Description for archives, libraries, and museums
- Challenges of image description
- Item-level description
- Collection-level description
- Subject description
- Metadata
- Metadata crosswalks
- Image description practices
- Description for digitization initiatives
- Metadata for information management
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Chapter 6: Digitization
- Abstract:
- Introduction
- Project objectives
- Cost estimates
- In-house or outsourced digitization
- Staffing
- Collaboration
- Documentation
- Benchmarking
- Calibration
- Scanning from originals or duplicates
- Batching
- Postproduction work
- File-naming conventions
- Quality assessment
- Management systems for images
- Benefits of digitization
- Chapter 7: Conclusion
- Appendix A: Digital project considerations
- Appendix B: Glossary of image collection terms
- Appendix C: Further reading
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Managing Image Collections
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2011
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780630564
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