Internal:Library Lab/Washingtonian photos

This project seeks to digitize photographs from the Washingtonian special collections and make them available online.

A module for this could also be made generic, allowing people to bring their own photos in for scanning.

Needs

• portable usb hard drive and/or large flash drives
• scanner [1]
• laptop or computer
• software: GIMP
• cart

Steps

• scan to hard drive or flash drive
• upload them to staging area (http://omeka.org/)
• populate metadata, check copyright status
• then to Wikimedia Commons

Notes

• The Washington Post holds copyright of all Washington Star photographs
• Washington, D.C. Historical Image Collection contains 15,000 images, 1880-1940 and some earlier dated

==Further reading==c

• http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=librarian_presentations
• http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ir_information/67/