Scanning Negative Collections at the Libary of Congress
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Phil Michel, LC Prints & Photographs DivisionNARA Preservation Conference 2007
Scanning Negative Collectionsat the Library of Congress
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Prints & PhotographsDivision
Background• 13.9 million items (nearly 12 million photos)• Electronic imaging since 1980s
– Optical Disk Pilot Project– American Memory– National Digital Library Project– P&P Online Catalog– 1.1 million items scanned
• Adding 50,000 new scans/year
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Imaging Goals
• Access surrogate• Reproduction surrogate• Accommodate most use cases• Photographic negatives are priority• Whole collections
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Production overview
• Contractors working in situ– Sinar 54 camera on custom built
workstation– Custom production software
•Designed for high throughput•Capture and processing stagesseparate
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Imaging specifications
• TIFF-format master
• Minimal tonal processing
• Inventory management
• Metadata
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Workflow
• Batches• Descriptive metadata• Delivery on CD-R media• Receipt• Quality review• Load to servers (backup, archiving)
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Workflow
• LC staff create derivatives• Linkage to catalog records• P&P Online Catalog
– Thumbnail– Service JPEGs– Master accessible if rights OK
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Negative collections
• Sizes range from 1/2 frame 35mm to16x20
• Glass, nitrate, acetate carriers• Usually very homogenous• Sometimes very fragile, channeled, or
outright broken
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Information content
• Process images to capture full imagecontent
• Reasonable reproduction
• Permit future adjustments
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RepositoryDigital Asset Management
System
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RepositoryDigital Asset Management
System
• We don’t have one• …but the metadata and images have been
transformed into many packages• Organized storage on servers• TIFF header content• Catalog records & digitizing specs readily
available online• Retaining source contractor-generated
metadata
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What it is not
• Replacement surrogate
• Absolute reproduction
• Full preservation solution
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Some future directions
• Retaining unprocessed master(functional equivalent to RAW, DNG)
• Support for more high-end use cases• Standardization of practice• Process control (targets)• Repository services (ingest, managed
storage, object delivery…)
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Phil [email protected]