My first blog concerns the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery, more specifically, those photos dealing with the construction of the NYC Water and Transit Infrastructure.
Selection procedure: resulted in the collation of 642 mainly original photos dealing with traffic, transit, and water-including mass transit proposals and projects back to 1867, photos of the Catskill Aqueduct System, and of the construction of the Holland Tunnel-good selection procedure because it keeps the collection narrowed to three themes, keeping the collation from becoming unwieldly.
Object Characteristics: Black and white images, can be enlarged to fill the screen and also be printed and/or bought as gifts, navigation between the thumbnails, the images and the enlarged images is quick and easy
Metadata : Extensive. Each photo has entries for creator, image caption, the NYPL digital phot collection that holds the image, the depicted date, the Library Division in charge of the original photo, a description of the photo album in which the original photo resides, an item/page/plate number for each image, subject(s) heading(s), a feature called notes - probably references, a collection guide, a digital image id number, and a digital record id number
Intended Audience : History buffs who particularly like construction because these images are not really beautiful images, they are more images that celebrate the hard work that made the modern New York City transit and water infrastructure possible
Overall I think this digitization project has done a good job because it allows the user to easily navigate its collection of images and even to print and or buy them. Perhaps the most impressive thing is that each caption includes not only the date and place of each photo, some even include the time down to the minute.
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