diglib: ArtOnFile prototype

[Corey Harper <charper@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

DCC and others,

I've set up a prototype for the Art on File collections utilizing a small
set of materials made available by Rob Wilkinson.  It is viewable at
the following URL:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/aaa/index.html

I've established this web-site to serve as a staging area for
collaborative projects involving AAA and MDLS, so more than just the Art
on File stuff will be located there.

The second and third item in the list prototype two different approaches
for organizing Art on File materials.   Both were built using a
subset of images from the Chatworth project of the Great Britatin:
Historical Landscape Gardens Collection.

The first approach houses the project and collection level metadata from
the "annotations files" in html context pages.  This seems
to me the appropriate place to store this information, given its
narrative nature.  Each collection will link to it's constituent
projects as well as having database queries to all constituent
images.  Each project's page will query for its images as
well.

The second approach utilizes a compound object to corral together all the
images for a project.  This allows project metadata to be stored in
CONTENTdm, although I find this a far less elegant approach than the
first.

There are number of questions that will need to be addressed as we
proceed with this material.  There will be questions related to the
images themselves, the metadata and the web pages & access
mechanisms.  I will outline some of these questions and issues from
my perspective in a future email.

Let me know if you have any initial feedback or questions about these
prototypes.

Thanks,
Corey

Corey A Harper
Metadata Librarian - CMET Team Leader
Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon
541/346.1854
charper@darkwing.uoregon. edu