The Wright Brothers in Photographs Collection

http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wright_brothers/
The Wright Brothers in Photographs Collection is a collection of digital images from Wright State University Libraries’ Wright Brothers Collection. It is hosted by the History & Archives Collections database of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center (DMC) and documents the invention of powered flight and the lives of the Wright family.

1) Selection decisions
A large majority of the photographs in the collection are online, but there is a portion that is not. The site notes which parts of the collection are not online but do not say why. I suspect that they will all be online eventually, but I don’t know why they chose the order of digitization that they did.

2) Metadata
Metadata described are: Title, Description, Place, Date, Creator, Subject, Work Type, Copyright, Terms of Use, Contributor, Collection, Repository Name, Repository Place, Repository number.
There is also a complete inventory of the archival holdings
Controlled Vocabulary taken from: Library of Congress Subject Headings, Report Nos. 91 and 240: Nomenclature for Aeronautics, and Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II).

3) Object Characteristics
The actual images are quite small. There are zooming and pan capabilities but the images are small enough to fit on the screen at full resolution so there is nothing to zoom or pan to. (You can buy prints or negatives if you want quality images)

4) Intended Audience
Audience is anyone interested in the history of aviation or the Wright brothers in general. The actual digitization seems to be for the convenience of researchers wanting to know what the photographs look like.