University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Preserving the Past: The Development of a Digital Historical Aerial Photography Archive

Luman, Donald E.

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Title
Preserving the Past: The Development of a Digital Historical Aerial Photography Archive
Author(s)
Luman, Donald E.
Issue Date
1997
Keyword(s)
  • Digital Libraries
  • electronic information resources
  • digital images
  • image access
  • image retrieval
  • aerial photos
  • historical archive
  • rectification
Abstract
The University of Illinois Map and Geography Library maintains a collection of approximately 60,000 individual prints of historical aerial photography that were acquired during the years 1936-1941, for which there are no remaining negatives. Because of high use by library patrons, the collection is deteriorating and a method of preservation is needed. A pilot study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility and appropriateness of digital conversion using high-quality, high-precision scanning. Results indicate that scans produced from the original paper prints exhibit no loss of feature detail, is cost effective on a frame-by-frame basis, and therefore a program of digital conversion should be considered.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Digital Image Access & Retrieval [papers presented at the 1996 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, March 24-26, 1996 Urbana-Champaign]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Owning Collections

1996: Digital Image Access & Retrieval PRIMARY
33th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1996). Edited by P. Bryan Heidorn and Beth Sandore.