Managing Image Collections

This book explores issues surrounding all aspects of visual collection management, taken from real-world experience in creating management systems and digitizing core content. Readers will gain the knowledge to manage the digitization process from beginning to end, assess and define the needs of their particular project, and evaluate digitization options. Additionally, they will select strategies which best meet current and future needs, acquire the knowledge to select the best images for digitization, and understand the legal issues surrounding digitization of visual collections.

• Offers practical information for the busy information professional
• Concentrates solely on image management

• Focuses on unique needs of born digital and digitized images

  Autorentext

  Margot Note has a Master's in History from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master's in Library and Information Science from Drexel University, where she is currently working towards her Post-Master's Certificate in Archives and Records Management. She is Archivist and Information Manager at World Monuments Fund, an international architectural preservation foundation headquartered in New York.

  Inhalt

  Digital image history; Digital image basics; Digital image issues; Digital image management; Metadata and information management; Digitization; Conclusion.