WWII Japan Digital Library

LIS590DIL: Emily Barney, Laura Chu, Dawn Youngblood

Rescuing a forgotten collection:

100 photographs, organized by the photographer with descriptions

All 4"x5", sequentially numbered and stored in archival sleeves

Part of an independent collection acquired in the 1980s

Digitization Workflow - best practices, tech setup, etc.

What makes this a library? - scope, contextualizing documents

What else do we need to know? - copyright, etc.

"Collection Development"

Links for Slide 3:

Scanning Workflow:

http://590wwiiproject.pbworks.com/Scanning-Progress

Digitization Best Practices:

http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/inside/CCDLScanningBestPractices.pdf

Library Flickr Set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtclibrary/sets/72157608375440129/

Contextual Research:

http://590wwiiproject.pbworks.com/Japan+Photos+-+Contextual+Research

Flickr Groups

flickr groups are listed at the bottom of our profile:

http:// www.flickr.com/people/dtclibrary /

Fitting it together: Metadata

Extract original information (descriptive & informational data)

Determine a metadata schema (Dublin Core)

Determine metadata terms (LOC TGM I & II)

Links for Slide 6:

Introduction to Dublin Core

http://dublincore.org/resources/training/

Library of Congress Thesaurus of Graphic Materials

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

We used Greenstone (an open source product) for this student project. More information about it here:

http://www.greenstone.org/

Content DM is another common digital library program. You can find more information about it here:

http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/overview/default.htm

Configuring Greenstone - Editing Files

TIFF to JPG (size reduction for server & display on digital library)

some photoshopping for contrast & clarity & removing discoloration

Original TIFF files retained along with TIFFs of edited versions for archives

Configuring Greenstone – Links

Index options - what will people want first? what should we group?

Linking across documents - subjects, series, & related items

Nagasaki Occupation Map (on flickr)

Effect of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (U.S. government document)

Photos of Nagasaki Bomb Damage

(link removed)

A Short Tour: Nagasaki After the War NOTE: I've revised these links to go to the original sources - our student installation has been taken down from the school server and backed up for now.

What was happening in the war?

A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps 1935-1946 by Carolyn A. Tyson

The Information War in the Pacific, 1945

Government Propaganda Posters

The end of the war in the Pacific : surrender documents in facsimile

What was the photographer doing?

Securing the Surrender: Marines in the Occupation of Japan

The United States Marines in the Occupation of Japan

History of the U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Vol. V: Victory and Occupation

More Contextual Information: NOTE: I've revised these links to go to the original sources - our student installation has been taken down from the school server and backed up for later use.

Q&A: Photo Lab Evidence photo stamped CARHART'S "High Hat" Panel Art Prints (on back) photo found on e-bay from that year, same stamp

see US Navy Maps of Sasebo , Omura , and Nagasaki ( not based on our photos)

Q&A: Were the photos gov't work?

Q&A: What was he doing? Photo #014 Photo #015 Photo #019 "On 23 September, as most of the remaining elements of the 5th Division landed and General Bourke set up his command post ashore, sanitary squads prepared billeting areas and patrols started probing the immediate countryside. Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Marines, was sent by amphibian trucks to Omura, about 22 miles southeast of Sasebo, to establish a security guard over the aircraft assembly facilities and repair 2 training base "to prevent further looting by Japs." Omura's 5,000 by 4,000 foot, "cow-pasture variety" airfield had been selected as the base of Marine air operations in southern Japan.“ - Securing the Surrender: Marines in the Occupation of Japan