Title:
Delivery, Deployment, and Use of Digital Images:
Lessons from a major University/Museum Consortial Project
Dr. Howard Besser
UC Berkeley

Abstract:

An identical set of 10,000 digital images and accompanying descriptive metadata were distributed to 7 university campuses. Each university deployed these on their campus by building a digital repository, and supporting both classroom and individual use of these images by their community. The speaker will present some of the lessons learned from this (Museum Educational Site Licensing) Project including: comparing different user interfaces and presentation, different search engines, and different indexing strategies for the same set of data; comparing the costs of the different technical approaches at the various campuses; comparing costs and usefulness of conventional university slide libraries to digital image repositories; and examining faculty needs in teaching with digital images. In addition, he will articulate some of the issues exposed in trying to create a cohesive searchable database out of images and metadata from 7 different museums (each having its own unique procedures and practices).