CalPhotos: Alfred Brousseau Project

CalPhotos: Alfred Brousseau Project

Collection Principles

· This collection is comprised of over 12,500 35mm photographs of about 2000 species of California wildflowers, fungi, trees, and other plants taken between 1925 and 1988 by Brother Alfred Brousseau F.S.C. (1908-1988) and has been incorporated into the CalPhotos project, also known as the U.C. Berkeley Digital Library Project.

· "Brother Alfred Brousseau, F.S.C. (1908-1988) produced a collection of 35mm color slides of Native Wildflowers of California which consists of over 12,500 slides of over 2,000 species.

· Original collection goal was to provide a ”comprehensive, organized and widely disseminated database of native California flora."

· Production costs for digitizing the Brousseau images were funded in part by the Digital Library Project and by the State of California Department of Water Resources. Funding for the continuing online presentation through CalPhoto comes from the University of California at Berkeley, so the online collection is sustainable.

· CalPhoto makes the images available using a system that respects the intellectual rights of the contributing organizations, is accessible, and provides the images in a good format (jpeg).

Object characteristics & Metadata

· The images are displayed as jpeg thumbnails with links to higher resolution photos.

· Metadata acommpanying the photos includes date, location, contributor id, photo id, usage restrictions, contact information, etc.

Intended Audience

Pretty much everyone!

Ann Dobbs