Abstract
A recent project for JISC Collections – Digital Images for Education – involved acquiring 75,000 still and moving images for use by the UK education community. Creating an aggregated image collection from a wide range of vendors raised considerable logistic, quality and metadata challenges.Those challenges included the need to follow European public procurement regulations; the need to evaluate all the images provided by vendors; the consequences of adopting a common technical standard for describing the content and issues around how the various vendors adapted their disparate metadata and taxonomic standards for the purposes of the project.
Highlights
Background to the projectLate in 2008, JISC Collections received funding to develop and enhance JISC’s existing digital repositories, via a project called Digital Images for Education.Under European Union public procurement regulations, vendors were invited to bid to provide still or moving images
Successful bids would be added to JISC Collection’s growing portfolio of licensed image content, which is currently available in three separate collections (Newsfilm Online, Film and Sound Online and Education Image Gallery)
The decision on which vendors to accept was not taken by JISC Collections, but by a panel of 12 volunteers selected from UK higher and further education establishments, who together had a representative range of educational level and subject area
Summary
The pleasures and pitfalls of creating an image collection: quality and metadata issues. A recent project for JISC Collections – Digital Images for Education – involved acquiring 75,000 still and moving images for use by the UK education community. Creating an aggregated image collection from a wide range of vendors raised considerable logistic, quality and metadata challenges. Those challenges included the need to follow European public procurement regulations; the need to evaluate all the images provided by vendors; the consequences of adopting a common technical standard for describing the content and issues around how the various vendors adapted their disparate metadata and taxonomic standards for the purposes of the project
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