Managing Image Collections: A Practical Guide
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, February 2011, Pages: 232
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.
Key features:
- offers practical information for the busy information professional
- concentrates solely on image management
- focuses on unique needs of born digital and digitized images
- provides a step-by-step guide on starting a digitization project
- centres on image management in a non-museum institutional setting
- presents accessible, action-oriented information
Readership: Information professionals with average technical abilities and little or no art history knowledge who may find themselves in the position of managing image collections by themselves or a small staff and directing a digitization project. Library science students and those who may be thinking of a career in image management in an institutional setting may also be interested.
Introduction
- L’Heliographie
- Viewing the first photograph
- Images defined
- Collections defined
- Objectives
- Images and figures
- Audience
- Why Managing Image Collections: A practical guide?
- Other resources
Photographic image history
- Introduction
- Technology and images
- Early attempts at photography
- Daguerreotypes and calotypes
- Technical developments
- Other early formats
- Commercial expansion
- Development of image collections
- Plate and camera improvements
- Film developments
- Color photography
- Digital technology
Digital image basics
- Introduction
- What is a digital image?
- Digital and analog differences
- Digital images as surrogates
- Digital cameras and scanners
- Dynamic range and bit depth
- Resolution
- Resolution recommendations
- Master and derivative files
- Interpolation
- Compression
- File formats
- Digital decisive moment
Photographic image issues
- Introduction
- Visual literacy
- Authenticity
- Decontexualization
- Paradigm shift
- Contextual meaning
- Photography in context
- Intellectual property rights
- Legal and cultural considerations
- Ethics
- Preservation
Photographic image collection management
- Introduction
- Image collections
- Appraisal defined
- Photographic appraisal
- Photographic appraisal criteria
- Selection for digitization
- Managing hybrid collections
Metadata and information management
- 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
Digitization
- 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
Margot Note has a Master’s in History from Sarah Lawrence College a Master’s in Library and Information Science, and a Post-Master’s Certificate in Archives and Records Management, both from Drexel University. She is a Certified Archivist based in New York and is the Director of Archives and Information Management at World Monuments Fund, an international historic preservation organization.
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