Transportation Futuristics

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/futuristics/index.html

This is an online exhibition created by the University of California. It examines efforts by those in the transportation industry to come up with creative new vehicles to solve existing problems. All of which didn’t work out for one reason or another.

1) Selection decisions
This virtual exhibit was created to accompany the installation in the McLaughlin-O'Brien Breezeway on the UC Berkeley campus. It appears that everything was drawn from the collection of the Transportation Library at Berkley. It appears that the creator included everything that his research turned up.

2) Metadata
The only information with the photographs are a caption and usually a call number, sometimes a book name and page number, occasionally there is only a caption with no source information.
Credits page lists the Futuristics Exhibit Curator and Project Director, Researchers, Captions and Essays writers, Website design and development personnel, and special thanks.

3) Object Characteristics
The images are web size only and are intended only for viewing on the web in this collection. They are very small usually about 500 pixels along the top; height varies depending on aspect ratio. The only naming schema is that each class of vehicles has a prefix on the file name (Automotive: auto_-----.jpg), after the prefix, naming is not consistent. The collection can’t be searched; it must be seen one image at a time in order. (Individual categories can be selected, images cannot).

4) Intended Audience
Audience is people who are interested in automotive history and futuristic speculation.