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Project Sponsors
• Industry Canada: Canada's Digital Collections
• Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions
• The Jaymac Foundation
• The Gates Foundation
• Special thanks to the City
of Vancouver Archives
Library Team
• Mary-Anne MacDougall Supervising Librarian, Special Collections
• Wendy Godley Librarian, Special Collections
• Laura Safarian Librarian, Special Collections
• Susan Camelleri Konar Library Assistant 3, Special Collections
• Corinne Sam Library Assistant 3, Special Collections
• Melina Bowden Library Assistant 3, Special Collections
• Barbara Adams Library, Archival and Information Sciences Student, Special Collections
• Jon Whipple Graphics Technician, Marketing Development and Communications
• Christine Hagemoen Scanning Technician, Special Collections
• Jan Rennie Library Technician, Special Collections
• David Poolman Scanning Technician, Special Collections
• Mary Jane Culbert Library Technician, Special Collections
• Special thanks to VPL System Support Group
Technical Information
Scanning
Hardware
> Seanix P3 600, 512MB RAM, 13GB HD, CD-RW, Windows 98
> ViewSonic G810 22 inch CRT
> Microtek ScanMaker III,
> Wacom Intuos 6x8 Graphics Tablet
Software
> Scanwizard Image Acquistion Software,
> Adobe Photoshop 5.5
> Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4
Text Database and Web
> Inmagic® DB/TextWorks®4.0, Web Publisher 4.03
> Apache Web Server 1.3.12 Win 32
> Netscape Navigator 4.7
> Microsoft Internet Explorer 5
The Archiving and
Scanning Process
Before the image scanning and creation of the electronic database
could begin, a system was created to inventory all manifestations of each
image in the Frank Collection. A logbook was created (listing negatives:
glass plate, film base, copy and source and display prints: copy and source)
from which the data was gathered and entered into the InMagic® database.
This information was merged with all additional information from the Special
Collections Department photograph accession records and historical photograph
index shelflist thus enhancing the descriptive information for every image.
This entire process was highly labour intensive because of the need to
gather and organize information in hand written and index card format
in preparation for transfer into the new electronic database.
After the text was
entered, the source image was removed from the historical photographs
vault and was checked against the accompanying text. Once this step was
completed scanning of the photos then commenced, with each photograph
scanned in greyscale at a minimum of 300dpi. The scans were saved as TIFFs
and burned to CD-ROM for archival storage. The database was updated to
reflect this information. The TIFFs were used as the source for the
creation of JPEGs suitable for display on the web in two sizes at 72dpi.
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