[Dspace-general] Image Collections in DSpace?

[Geneva Henry]

We ended up starting with some rather "rich" collections that are image
intensive when we brought our DSpace up.  That wasn't my original intent
(was planning to first migrate some existing department level publication
databases into the system), but that's where the most urgent need was.  One
of the image collections was in an existing filemaker pro db.  We imported
it (3000 images) and now have restricted access to it because of copyright
issues.  Our public affairs office asked if they could start putting their
digital images of Rice into DSpace so they could start to be managed; they
haven't been organized/managed at all to date and there are thousands of
images.  We have a digital library project, Travelers in the Middle East
Archive (TIMEA) where we're imaging a lot of interesting things and are
using DSpace for archiving those assets, then using them in other
applications for teaching/learning. That group is now organizing and
submitting the images on their own. There are, of course, metadata issues
with these collections that we're continuing to work through.  But they're
there.  You can go to dspace.rice.edu to look at some of these.

                              regards,
                              geneva
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Geneva Henry  
Executive Director, Digital Library Initiative
Rice University
Fondren Library -- MS-44
P.O. Box 1892 
Houston, TX  77251-1892
(overnight delivery address: 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005)
voice:(713)348-2480 | ghenry at rice.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu]
On Behalf Of Sam Kalb
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:09 AM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Image Collections in DSpace?

Does anyone have collections of digital images loaded into a DSpace 
repository?  A faculty member at my institution is interested in 
loading a large collection of digital images in the field 
of  pathology.  I would like to get some ideas about how I might 
handle them in a repository context.
Thanks,
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Sam Kalb  				
Library Assessment & IT Projects Coordinator,
Queen's University Libraries
Kingston, Ontario, Canada  K7L 5C4
Phone: (613) 533-2830; Fax: (613) 533-6362
Email: kalbs at post.queensu.ca


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