Journal Article

Designing for specialized visual domains

Haldy, Amanda, Albertson, Dan

2013

Overview

Investigates the organisation and design of a real-life digital collection for the field of Book Arts. Examines the challenges in building digital libraries for visual domains with specialised user pools. Focuses on the collection of the works of US wood engraver and lithographer John DePol held by the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama, comprising a quantity of mixed materials including wood engraved blocks, prints in black ink, prints in colour and multi-colour, published materials illustrated by the engraver, publicity materials about the engraver or his exhibits, photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.

• Publisher: Emerald,Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subject: Academic libraries / Access / Artists / Arts / Attitudes / Book binding / Book production / Cataloging of printed ephemera / Collection / Data mining / Design / Design engineering / Developmental Tasks / Digital / Digital libraries / Digital systems / Electronic Libraries / Exact sciences and technology / Fine arts / Image retrieval / Information and communication sciences / Information science. Documentation / Information storage / Intellectual Disciplines / Libraries / Library and information science. General aspects / Organizing / Polls & surveys / Portraiture / Printed ephemera / Private collections / Qualitative research / R&D / Research & development / Retrieval / Sciences and techniques of general use / Studies / User feedback / User interfaces / Visual / Visual representation