Providing Support For:
Images and Technology
- Digitization standards for research and teaching
- Creating, organizing, cataloguing, storing and preserving digital images
- Archiving collections
- Locating image resources for publication, research, projects
- Locating special image topics for research and teaching
- Issues of authenticity and accuracy
- Moral, ethical and cultural issues pertaining to image use
- Digitization concerns regarding special collections (cast collections, plans or large drawings, historical documents, manuscripts, slide collections, old photographs and negatives, x-rays, oral accounts)
- Discipline and subject specific areas of concern regarding the quality, accuracy and access to digital images
- Copyright statements, permissions
- Collaborating with experts in specific disciplines with specific image needs
Scanning
- Assistance with 2D image scanning
Image Metadata
Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource.
- Assistance in determining what kind of metadata is necessary
- Assistance in selecting the appropriate resource for obtaining your metadata
- Assistance in structuring metadata in database designs for longevity, growth and migration into later designs
- Assistance in discipline specific concerns regarding metadata
- Image metadata and controlled vocabularies
Contact us at ask.utml@utoronto.ca