SPEC Kit 335: Digital Image Collections and Services · 61
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Ease of use Images online in one
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Integrate images
with other media
Large database of
images
Use images in
websites, course
sites
Technical assistance Integrate images
from several sources
Use images in
publicaEons
Image alt text/
capEons
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Comments N=6
Metadata is crucial to the quality of an image database. Size of database is of no value unless images are easily found
using a variety of terms and natural language.
My unit provides technical and content creation and description services. The choices listed above would be evaluated
by reference librarians/selectors.
Quality metadata accompanying images is highly important.
Technical assistance is an issue with more complicated displays used for interactive medical images.
These answers relate to commercial image databases. Don’t have faculty feedback for locally created collections.
Value for money is increasingly important as LC saw a reduction in congressional funding for collection purchases in
2013.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
28. Please enter any additional information that may assist the authors’ understanding of your
library’s digital image collections and services. N=24
ArchNet Digital Library is part of Archnet.org, a collaboration between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Aga Khan
Documentation Center at MIT. The Program Head of the Documentation Center is also the director of the Digital Library.
Curation of the Digital Library is done in the Documentation Center.
At the University of Washington, digitized Special Collections materials are funded and supported by the Main Library.
Image database subscriptions (ARTstor, APImages, and Camio) are funded by the Main Library, the UW Bothell Library,
and the UW Tacoma Library, according to a 3-campus funding formula. Instructional image collections (traditional
Visual Resources Collections, including images licensed from vendors such as Scholars Resource, Art on File, Archivision,
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27
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22 20 19
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20
32
38
16
30
32 34 36
21
4
15
21
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19 19 18
37
0
10
20
30
40
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60
70
80
Ease of use Images online in one
place
Integrate images
with other media
Large database of
images
Use images in
websites, course
sites
Technical assistance Integrate images
from several sources
Use images in
publicaEons
Image alt text/
capEons
High Medium Low
Comments N=6
Metadata is crucial to the quality of an image database. Size of database is of no value unless images are easily found
using a variety of terms and natural language.
My unit provides technical and content creation and description services. The choices listed above would be evaluated
by reference librarians/selectors.
Quality metadata accompanying images is highly important.
Technical assistance is an issue with more complicated displays used for interactive medical images.
These answers relate to commercial image databases. Don’t have faculty feedback for locally created collections.
Value for money is increasingly important as LC saw a reduction in congressional funding for collection purchases in
2013.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
28. Please enter any additional information that may assist the authors’ understanding of your
library’s digital image collections and services. N=24
ArchNet Digital Library is part of Archnet.org, a collaboration between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Aga Khan
Documentation Center at MIT. The Program Head of the Documentation Center is also the director of the Digital Library.
Curation of the Digital Library is done in the Documentation Center.
At the University of Washington, digitized Special Collections materials are funded and supported by the Main Library.
Image database subscriptions (ARTstor, APImages, and Camio) are funded by the Main Library, the UW Bothell Library,
and the UW Tacoma Library, according to a 3-campus funding formula. Instructional image collections (traditional
Visual Resources Collections, including images licensed from vendors such as Scholars Resource, Art on File, Archivision,
