Visual Resource Services

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  • Digitization concerns regarding special collections (cast collections, plans or large drawings, historical documents, manuscripts, slide collections, old photographs and negatives, x-rays, oral accounts)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