ANSP metadata for ingest

ANSP scanned books & page-level metadata

28 August 2009

From Eileen Mathias
Information Services Librarian, Archivist, & Coordinator, Albert M Greenfield Digital Imaging Center for Collections
Ewell Sale Stewart Library
The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

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Images are tiffs, at 600dpi
File names arrange pages in consecutive order and indicate pagination:
000100cv (cover)
000200ep (endpaper)
000500tp (title page)
00080001 (page 1)
File paths are call numbers: ql42g59 \ v1 \ 000100cv.tif

Bibliographic metadata for an ANS Journal article, as it appears in our OPAC:
LOCATIONS Vault
AUTHOR Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.
TITLE An account of some of the fossil shells of Maryland / by Thomas
Say.
DESCRIPT p. 124-155, [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
SERIES Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; vol.
4, pt. 1.
NOTE "Read July 20, 1824."
NOTE Illustrations drawn by C.A. Lesueur.
NOTE In Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v.
4, pt. 1 (1824).
ALT AUTHOR Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846.
LOCATION ANSV.
1 > Vault QH1 .A16 v.4 pt.1
FULL RECORD __http://nolan.acnatsci.org:80/record=b1062950__


We have a FileMaker Pro 4.0 database (ancient version) which records metadata for individual images of illustrations, but not for individual images of pages that are text only. This database is currently being imported into an MS Access database. A volunteer is working on it, and it is a few weeks away from completion.
The data recorded for the images in this database includes: technical metadata (pixels high, pixels wide, date captured, resolution, equipment used, etc.); administrative metadata (permissions, rights); and descriptive metadata (plate caption, subjects, source metadata).