Friday, August 15, 2008

Welcome to INF 385R - Survey of Digitization!

Blogging Requirement: Find an online exhibition and review it addressing the four characteristics referred to below. There are no "correct" exhibitions to look at, they don't have to be "good," and if the exhibit you've chosen for the week does not comply with these guidelines, that's fine, just discuss that in your blog entry. Blog entries should be short, bullet points are okay, and I expect this assignment to take between 20-40 minutes per week.

Address the four points:
1) Selection decisions = how did they decide what to digitize [addressed in "Collection Principles" below];
2) What kind of metadata are they providing for each image, and for the collection as a whole [addressed in "Metadata" below]; and
3) tell as much as you can about the characteristics of the digital object ["Object Characteristics" below]. Finally, address an issue that will, for the most part, be guesswork, based on the three points above -
4) who is the intended audience for this digitization project.

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