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Digital Image Services Come of Age
(But Will They Ever Grow Up?)

  • Laine Farley, California Digital Library
  • Henry Pisciotta, Penn State University
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Digital Image Services Come of Age
  • Image Service Demonstrator Project (ISDP)
  • 2003 to present
  • California Digital Library


  • Visual Image User Study (VIUS)
  • 2001-2003
  • Penn State University
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Digital Image Services Come of Age
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections


  • Using / Reusing Images
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Digital Image Services Come of Age
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
  • Importance of personal collections
  • Ways of working with them


  • Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Integration with other systems
  • Integration with users’ tools
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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"Institutional vs"
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
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Digital Image Services Come of Age
  • Institutional vs. Personal Collections
  • Importance of personal collections
  • Ways of working with them


  • Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Integration with other systems
  • Integration with users’ tools
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Henry Sugimoto
Working on Farm
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Personal collections
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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Personal collections
  • Institutional collections
  • (licensed, owned)
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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Personal collections
  • Institutional collections
  • (licensed, owned)
  • Collaborative projects
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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Personal collections
  • Institutional collections
  • (licensed, owned)
  • Collaborative projects
  • Incidental, illustrative
  • (esp. for teaching)
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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple Sources
  • Integration with other systems
  • Learning management systems
  • Course web pages
  • Course reserves


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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Integration with other systems
  • Integration with users’ tools
    • Manage images (e.g., iPhoto)
    • Use elsewhere (e.g., ppt)
    • View or edit details (e.g., Photoshop)
    • Share (e.g., web pages, CDs)
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Using / Reusing Images
  • Multiple sources
  • Integration with other systems
  • Integration with users’ tools


    • Separate usage tools from access tools?



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Using / Reusing Images
  • Separate usage tools from access tools?


  • Barriers –
  • Licensed images in protected environments
    • Agreements with content owners
    • Fear of copyright abuse
    • Loss of revenue (esp. for museums)


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Using / Reusing Images

  • Licensed images in protected environments
  • Compromises
  • APIs
        • metadata, thumbnails - metasearching


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Using / Reusing Images
  • Licensed images in protected environments
  • Compromises
  • APIs
  • Deep linking, durable URLs
  • LMS


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Using / Reusing Images
  • Licensed images in protected environments
  • Compromises
  • APIs
  • Deep linking
  • Export options
  • control image size
  • control viewer
  • control permissions



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Using / Reusing Images
  • Separate usage tools from access tools?


  • Licensed images in protected environments


  • For user
    • Process depends on image source
    • Image quality is variable



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Using / Reusing Images
  • Separate usage tools from access tools?


  • Licensed images in protected environments


  • Institutional collections
    • Similar barriers emerging

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ISDP & VIUS
  • Other Common Areas in Our Projects
  • Incentives for Users
  • Obstacles for Users
  • Technology
  • Copyright
  • Large analog collections
  • Challenges for Us
  • Metadata
  • Content migration
  • User support
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Digital Image Services Come of Age 
(But Will They Ever Grow Up?)
  • Laine Farley, California Digital Library
  • www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/image


  • Henry Pisciotta
  • Penn State University
  • www.libraries.psu.edu/vius
  • lionshare.its.psu.edu