Chris Freeland

- Application Development Manager

Doug Holland

- Administrative Librarian

Staff

• Imaging Technicians– Leslie Miller– Fred Keusenkothen– Wendy Westmoreland

• Herbarium Assistant– Tina Ruble

• Database Developer– Joe Ditto

• Interface Design– Chris Freeland

• Project Coordinator– Doug Holland

Equipment

                                                                                           

BetterLight Super 6K-2

Epson Expression 1680

Kaiser Scando

Progress to Date

• 37 books have been scanned• 13,000 + pages scanned • Added information:

– author biographies– bibliographic descriptions– translations into English– links to current botanical

names in TROPICOS and current names found at USDA

Metadata Input

Screen shot of Access table

Web Site

Linked from

MBG Library

web site

Web Display

• Many ways to access:– Turn pages

from cover to cover

– Browse all illustrations

– Search by common or scientific name

Thumbnails

Structure of book

List of illustrations by plant name

Page Turning

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• <META NAME="DC.Title" CONTENT="Image of Illustration of EPILOBE VELU; <i>Epilobium hirsutum</i> L.; codlins and cream"><LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#title">

• <META NAME="DC.Creator" CONTENT="Jaume Saint-Hilaire, Jean Henri"><LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#creator">

• <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="(SCHEME=LCSH) Botany -- France -- Pictorial works.|Horticulture -- France -- Pictorial works.|Flowers -- France -- Pictorial works.|"><LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#subject">

• <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Illustration of EPILOBE VELU; <i>Epilobium hirsutum</i> L.; codlins and cream"><LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#description">

Web Statistics

• 3 million hits since April 1, 2002

• 77,000 unique users

• Average user spends 7 minutes 38 seconds on site

• Receive 2-5 requests per week to use images in publications or other for-profit purposes

Preservation

• 3000 CDs

• Recently moved to DVD-R

• Moving toward SAN (Storage Area Network)

• Copying Access metadata tables onto image storage media