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The implementation of the campus wide Internet WWW-based network, Columbianet,
in 1995 sparked the idea of providing image access to Columbia students
in the foundation courses. A web menu- interface was planned to provide
access to cataloging information about digital images which would be
provided over the network. Before this interface could be created, a
large number of images were needed to study the organization and access
method to be employed to assist students in obtaining the works they
wanted to view online and to provide accurate information about the
images themselves.
This presentation will take you through the process which brought
these digital images to the desktops of all Columbia students and
affiliates with network access from their residence halls, dorms,
apartments and Columbianet terminals within the libraries. Mostly
we will concern ourselves with metadata--the contextual information
about the image which must be present to access, identify, and supplement
the visual content. How the metadata was constructed and organized
to function as an index to the collections, including many of the
problems encountered in cataloging image surrogates of works of art,
will be examined.
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