Student Diaries

About the Project

Working name: Student Diaries
Sponsors: Ron Patkus, Laura Streett
Duration: 6 mos
Nature:

[Text; image; text+image; GIS; audio/video; other]

Images, text
Project track: Track 2
Date prepared: October 18, 2011
Project status: In process

Background / Purpose

The purpose of the Student Diaries project is to make available Vassar’s collection of student diaries.

Scope

Phases of project

Based on item temporal coverage

One phase: all diaries will be digitized.
Number of items to be digitized
Total number of images

Assumption: one JPG derivative per each archival image created

est. 8800 TIFFs, 8800 JPGs
Total number of records 59
Special considerations Fragile items; some blank pages.

Location of Physical Items

Units Location
59 diaries Special Collections & Archives Library

Will be digitized via Hudson Microimaging.

Hardware/Storage

System type System Space required
Archival image storage Hard drive

Derivative item storage ContentDM

TOTAL SPACE NEEDED

Software

  • Hudson Microimaging will provide data capture.
  • Items will be uploaded as compound objects into ContentDM.

File Naming Convention

Formula

  • Prefix: VCL_Diaries_Last-First-ClassYear_page
  • ID:VCL_Diaries
  • ID part:Last-First-ClassYear, page left padded = 3
  • Delimiter: underscore