Introduction

General Guidelines

Metadata

Intellectual Property Issues

Determining Users' Needs

Text Projects

Image Projects

Audio Projects

Video Projects

3D Imaging Projects

GIS Projects

Creating Digital Image Resources

Digital imaging is one of the most fundamental means of providing electronic access to scholarly resources, and as a result, there has been a great deal of work on establishing best practices in this area. The following works provide some of the best information on creating and disseminating digital images.

• Making of America II White Paper: Part IV - Best Practices for Image Capture
  A good quick overview of issues to consider in image capture projects, with some good specific recommendations on both image capture and storage.
• Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice: Selecting image file formats
  A short but useful discussion on file formats for digitizing image collections from the Visual Arts Data Service in the UK. This is part of a larger, more comprehensive work, Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice, which includes discussion of intellectual property issues, project management, resource deliver, and storage and preservation issues for electronic image collections.
• Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database
  Howard Besser's and Jennifer Trant's discussion of image database projects, done in support of work at the Getty Art History Information Program.
• Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives
  While not available electronically, Anne Kenney and Stephen Chapman's very influential workbook on digital imaging projects is definitely worth reading if you're considering a digital imaging project. We do have copies in Bobst's collection, Call No. Z681.3.D53 K36 1996.
• Digitizing Images and Texts
  Berkeley's summary page on image and text digitization projects. Good one stop shopping for most information on this topic.
• Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
  A cooperative work by the Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources and the Research Libraries Group, this is a set of 5 digital imaging guides:
  • Planning an Imaging Project, by Linda Serenson Colet, Museum of Modern Art
  • Selecting a Scanner, by Don Williams, Eastman Kodak Company
  • Imaging Systems: the Range of Factors Affecting Image Quality, by Donald D'Amato, Mitretek Systems
  • Measuring Quality of Digital Masters, by Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute Rochester Institute of Technology
  • File Formats for Digital Masters, by Franziska Frey).

  This is very current and comprehensive.