Hi Jean,
This is great news. I think that issues like this are the next conversation in image archives. Perhaps the Society of Architectural Historians SAH ARA (http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=AVRN%20Press%20Release&category=AVRN) that debuts this Spring will be able to help. A good model for us has been collaboration between institutions that have the digitized images but no funding to proceed and institutions that have funded the metadata specialists and can move to complete the project. In this economic climate, the collaborative model is looking good.
We will point to the Rensselaer site on our guides now and hope to talk more offlist.
Yours,
Lucie
On 12/19/08 9:18 AM, "Keefe, Jeanne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Lucie:
I was heartened by your concern about the lack of digitization of
several unique image sets and thought I would respond to you via the
list. In 1996, we digitized about 1000 of the original color images from
the Armenian Archives set and posted them on our website
(http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/ArmArch/ and these images can
be accessed without restriction. Within the past 2 years we have
digitized more of these original color slides, where were admittedly in
a deteriorating condition, and have added them to the Rensselaer Digital
Collections (http://library.rpi.edu/setup.do )and these are also
publicly accessible. We did not post the full quality images on the
website but if anyone wants a large scale image, I am happy to supply
it.
I still retain all the original B&W images on film for the entire set of
microforms, which could eventually be scanned and digitized, if we had
both the time and the money to commit to such a project. What I foresee
happening is that this will be accomplished piecemeal, by student
workers, over a very extended period. It is my hope, since this project
was my first when I arrived at Rensselaer in 1980, that I could
accomplish this before I retire in 6 short years!
Jeanne
Jeanne M. Keefe
Visual Resources Librarian
Architecture, Experimental Media & the Arts
Architecture Library
Greene Building, Rm 306
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Tel: 518-276-2727
Fax: 518-276-6753
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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Stylianopoulos, Louann (lws4n)
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:46 PM
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Image Archives in microform
Dear Arlisians,
Hope this note finds you all well and I Wish you All a fine Holiday
period.
Now my request for information. I am concerned about the number of image
sets that we all have in microform and I can find no evidence of any
efforts
to turn into digital archives. I am looking at examples like the IDC
Armenian Architecture set from Rensselaer Polytechnic, the Conway
Library
Archive from the Courtauld, or the Italian Roman Architecture Archive
and
many more particularly architectural sets.
Does anyone know of plans to digitize and market any of these archives
or
offer them freely? Is ARTstor looking at any of these collections? I
don't
think of these as falling under orphan works. Have we had any
discussion
about whether or not the images can be converted to digital and offered
by
institutional collections hosted on ARTstor?
There is some very good stuff here.
Thanks,
lucie
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Head, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
Chair, ACRL Arts Section
University of Virginia
Bayly Drive Box 400131
Charlottesville, VA. 22904-4131
434-924-6604
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