About the Project

Project Leaders

General Editor : Paul D. Barclay (website) , Associate Professor of History, Lafayette College
Responsible for all intellectual content, including coordination with contributors

Project Developer : Eric Luhrs, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Lafayette College
Responsible for digitization, technical design, and project management

Lafayette Collaborators

Naoko Ikegami, Japanese Language Instructor (Japanese-Language Consultant)

Alan Johnson, Library Technology Assistant (Programming)

Pam Murray, Project Archivist (Research Assistance)

Emanuel Santa-Donato, Class of 2010 (Digitization Assistance)

Diane Shaw, Special Collections Librarian & College Archivists (Acquisition, Preservation)

Lijuan Xu, Instruction Coordinator (Chinese-Language Consultant)

Peng Yi, Class of 2009 (Research Assistance)

Acknowledgements

Dallas Finn, Donor of Gerald Warner's postcards and photographs

Technical Details

Photographs and postcards were scanned as high resolution TIFs (4000 pixels across the long edge) using SilverFast AI 6 software and an Epson 4990 scanner. No descreening process was used. Master images were converted to JPEG2000 for online display, and to JPEG for download.

The digital images are hosted on Lafayette College's local CONTENTdm server. The CONTENTdm software is what allows images to be searched, browsed, zoomed, panned, cropped, compared, and added to temporary collections.

Metadata was created in Dublin Core format using MetaDB, a web-based application developed at Lafayette College. MetaDB allows digitization projects to be decentralized so that many people can work concurrently on individual parts of a project. Once a project is complete, images and metadata are assembled automatically and exported directly to CONTENTdm.