Reflections on digitising the tear sheets in the Walt Reed Illustration Archive

Andrea Degener and Skye Lacerte
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Andrea Degener: MSC 1061-141-B, USA
Skye Lacerte: MSC 1061-141-B, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 310-323

Abstract: The D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library is a repository of primary source materials that supports faculty scholarship and teaching in the field of visual culture. One of its cornerstone collections is the Walt Reed Illustration Archive, which consists of materials amassed at Illustration House, a business founded around collecting and selling key pieces of narrative art, in addition to related materials, of some of the most notable illustrators of the 20th century. The materials in this collection were used to create a publicly accessible digital collection of over 150,000 assets. Administrative metadata have been added to the collection, but work has been ongoing to enhance the descriptive metadata, which is crucial for research and discovery. Presently, only 30,000 records contain fully descriptive data. This paper discusses the challenges and successes of the project, as well as the innovative systems created to enhance image records and increase accessibility.

Keywords: archival collections; discovery; illustration; metadata; special collections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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