Re: diglib: air photos on disk.

[Faye Chadwell <chadwelf@uoregon.edu>]

Jon,

I have some separate questions about acknowledging this gift that we do
not need to take up here.

I have some questions that also can be addressed:

Can you give us a general description so we can add the collection
officially to the collection?  CDA does this regularly with
manuscript collections that Special Collections adds.  The brief
bibs we create are suppressed but help us keep a record of
acquisitions.  In this case, we ought to create a resource record.

Since these were our photos to begin, can I assume they were in public
domain so scanning and burning them to a disk was okay?  
We ought to document this in the resource record and/or its attached
license record. 

The DCC does have the draft of a workflow for handling digital
images.  These questions I asked should help take care of some of
the initial steps that involve CDA.

My two cents in answer to your questions: 

If these are photos that we would charge non-users to photocopy, then it
strikes me that we could add them to the collection in a manner similar
to the way we have added digital images we have licensed and purchased
but that are somewhat restricted to our faculty, students, and
staff.  

We also receive DVDs/CDs for many of the images we purchase and these go
into Systems' "cold room" right now.  That space won't
work forever so we will probably need to alter this practice before too
long.


Faye

At 02:23 PM 8/3/2006, Jon R Jablonski wrote:
> This is an issue that I've been
> planning on bringing to DCC pre-emptively, but now it's coming to the
> fore-front.
>
> A researcher at an OSU extension in Eastern Oregon scanned a large number
> of our aerial photographs and purchased a number of others for a research
> project.  At the time she casually offered to give them all to us as
> geo-referenced files.  She has recently contacted Colin and said she
> is ready to start burning DVDs for us.  She will also be including
> some parcel boundaries from the area.
>
> The collection will consist of some 1400 files, all of the Zumwalt
> Prairie.  They will most likely be 5400x5400 pixel grayscale
> images.
>
> Several immediate questions come to mind:
>
> --How will we store them?
> --How will we incorporate digital-only images into our Aerial Photo
>   Research Service.
> --How will we provide access to the files to our academic users?
>
> I am about to open a channel of communication directly to the researcher.
> I would love some input as to what sorts of questions to ask
> her.
>
> ps:  there is a second gift of this nature in the pipeline as
> well.
>
> -jon
>
> Jon Jablonski
> jonjab@uoregon.edu
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Faye A. Chadwell
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