LIS590DIL: Emily Barney, Laura Chu, Dawn Youngblood

Rescuing a forgotten collection:

• 100 photographs, organized by the photographer with descriptions • All 4"x5", sequentially numbered and stored in archival sleeves

 • Part of an independent collection acquired in the 1980s

• Digitization Workflow - best practices, tech setup, etc.

• What makes this a library? -  scope, contextualizing documents • What else do we need to know? - copyright, etc.

"Collection Development"

Links for Slide 3:

• Scanning Workflow: http://590wwiiproject.pbworks.com/Scanning-Progress

• Digitization Best Practices: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/inside/CCDLScanningBestPractices.pdf

• Library Flickr Set:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtclibrary/sets/72157608375440129/

• Contextual Research: http://590wwiiproject.pbworks.com/Japan+Photos+-+Contextual+Research

Flickr Groups

flickr groups are listed at the bottom of our profile (we used WWII groups, Japan photos, etc):

http://www.flickr.com/people/dtclibrary/

Fitting it together: Metadata

• Extract original information (descriptive & informational data) 

• Determine a metadata schema (Dublin Core)•  

• Determine metadata terms (LOC TGM I & II)

Links for Slide 6:

• Introduction to Dublin Corehttp://dublincore.org/resources/training/

 

• Library of Congress Thesaurus of Graphic Materialshttp://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

 

• We used Greenstone (an open source product) for this student project. More information about it here:http://www.greenstone.org/

 • Content DM is another common digital library program.

You can find more information about it here:http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/overview/default.htm

Configuring Greenstone - Editing Files

• TIFF to JPG (size reduction for server & display on digital library)• some photoshopping for contrast & clarity & removing discoloration• Original TIFF files retained along with TIFFs of edited versions for archives

Configuring Greenstone – Links

• Index options - what will people want first? what should we group?

• Linking across documents - subjects, series, & related items

• Nagasaki Occupation Map (on flickr)  • Effect of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Naga

saki  (U.S. government document)

• Photos of Nagasaki Bomb Damage     (link removed)

A Short Tour: Nagasaki After the War

NOTE: I've revised these links to go to the original sources - our student installation has been taken down from the school server and backed up for now.

What was happening in the war? 

• A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps 1935-1946 by Carolyn A. Tyson 

• The Information War in the Pacific, 1945 

• Government Propaganda Posters  

• The end of the war in the Pacific : surrender documents in facsimile 

What was the photographer doing? 

• Securing the Surrender: Marines in the Occupation of Japan 

• The United States Marines in the Occupation of Japan 

• History of the U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Vol. V: Victory and Occupation

 

More Contextual Information:

NOTE: I've revised these links to go to the original sources - our student installation has been taken down from the school server and backed up for later use.

Q&A: Photo Lab Evidence

photo stampedCARHART'S"High Hat"

Panel Art Prints (on back)

photo foundon e-bay from 

that year,same stamp

see US Navy Maps of Sasebo, Omura, and Nagasaki (not based on our photos)

Q&A: Were the photos gov't work?

Q&A: What was he doing?

Photo #014 Photo #015 Photo #019

"On 23 September, as most of the remaining elements of the 5th Division landed and General Bourke set up his command post ashore, sanitary squads prepared billeting areas and patrols started probing the immediate countryside. Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Marines, was sent by amphibian trucks to Omura, about 22 miles southeast of Sasebo, to establish a security guard over the aircraft assembly facilities and repair 2 training base "to prevent further looting by Japs." Omura's 5,000 by 4,000 foot, "cow-pasture variety" airfield had been selected as the base of Marine air operations in southern Japan.“

- Securing the Surrender: Marines in the Occupation of Japan