Letchworth State Park Digital Image Library Marc Boissoneau Natasha Jashurek Marjorie Prak

Introduction Topic: Letchworth State Park Scope: Image taken within Letchworth State Park, at any time in the park’s history. Users: Anyone interested in viewing images of the park or of an area in New York’s Finger Lake region. Mission: To create a dedicated digital library of quality topic specific images in order to promote Letchworth State Park, in an effort to encourage tourism and patronage. Our group wanted to create a Image Library for our Digital Library project. We also knew that we wanted it to be specific to images of a certain topic. After discussing multiple possibilities, we settled on images of Letchworth State Park.

Metadata – Dublin Core Elements Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Date Type Format Identifier Rights Go through each element and describe why it was included and what information should be found in each. Title: The name given to the image from the source Creator: Person who took the picture, if known. Subject: Topic represented in the image. Can be repeated as often as necessary. Description: A brief summary of what the image is depicts from the images’ source. Publisher: The entity responsible for making the image available. The site we retrieved the image from. Date: Date the image was taken, in mm/dd/yy format. Type: “Image” Format: Image and the file format of the image. A second Format element to indicate the size of the image “2048 x 1152 pixels” Identifier: The unique web address, where the image can be located. Rights: the specific Creative Commons rights for the image 

Image Example 1 <metadata> <dc:title>Letchworth State Park Upper Falls (Wide Shot)</dc:title> <dc:creator>Scott Kinmartin</dc:creator> <dc:subject>Letchworth State Park</dc:subject> <dc:subject>Upper Falls</dc:subject> <dc:subject>Waterfall</dc:subject> <dc:publisher>www.flickr.com</dc:publisher> <dc:date>10/06/2013</dc:date> <dc:type>Image</dc:type> <dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format> <dc:format>4928 x 3264 pixels</dc:format> <dc:identifier>https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottkinmartin/10126533084/</dc:identifier> <dc:rights>Creative Commons BY-ND 2.0</dc:rights> </metadata>

Image Example 2 <metadata> <dc:title>Letchworth State Park</dc:title> <dc:creator>Mark H. Baker</dc:creator> <dc:subject>Gorge</dc:subject> <dc:subject>Letchworth State Park</dc:subject> <dc:subject>Mist</dc:subject> <dc:description>Taken this morning between 7 - 8am</dc:description> <dc:publisher>www.flickr.com</dc:publisher> <dc:date>10/18/2009</dc:date> <dc:type>Image</dc:type> <dc:format>image/gif</dc:format> <dc:format>359 x 539 pixels</dc:format> <dc:identifier>https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhbaker/4022526763/</dc:identifier> <dc:rights>Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0</dc:rights> </metadata>

Record Format Greenstone Digital Library Image format = source format Three ways to access the collection: Search by subject or keyword Browse by object title Browse by subject or keyword Is this where we discuss our record in Greenstone? Greenstone provides a well structured record format and allows the user to view image thumbnails in the search results and while browsing. Our group made a conscious decision to use the image format which the images were already in, acknowledging that some formats will have lossless compression, but some will be lossy.

Record Format Continued Browse by object title Browse by subject or keyword

Copyright Issues and Concerns Topic changes (originally planned a yearbook image library) Government images Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ BY: Attribution ND: NoDerivs NC: NonCommercial SA: ShareAlike Our topic changed due to the projected difficulties in obtaining the appropriate permissions to utilize old yearbooks and/or images of current students to create an online student yearbook. Government images are not subject to copyright laws Many of the images that will be included in our digital image library will be covered by Creative Commons Licenses. So our library users will also need to adhere to any restrictions set forth. Images under Creative Commons may hold a combination of the following licenses: BY: Attribution – give credit for the original creation NC: NonCommercial – self explanatory ND: NoDerivs - must remain unchanged and whole SA: ShareAlike – derivative works must be licensed under identical terms. a.k.a “copyleft”

Conclusion Images are no substitute for the real thing – go visit the park! http://www.parks.ny.gov/parks/79/details.aspx