Librarians at the University of Washington are creating a digital library of Russian architectural images from the William Brumfield Collection. Brumfield is a professor at Tulane University and has devoted his time and travels to the study of Russian architecture. His collection is estimated at nearly 100,000 images, which have been featured in over 50 exhibits both here and abroad. Many of these images are on slides. Because of this, Brumfield is nervous about the collection deteriorating, hence the origins of this project. This will benefit scholars and researchers greatly, as the amount of resources on this subject are few and far between and because Russia is losing historical buildings at an alarming rate.
When the project is completed, nearly 30,000 slides and photographic prints will be digitized, both as high-resolution TIFF images and medium-resolution JPEG images. The images are cataloged using a metadata set that has been specially created. Project staff have created the schema by adapting METS and CCO standards. This presents the images within architectural, geographic, and chronological contexts. Professor Brumfield has been actively participating in the project, scanning nearly all of the images himself, naming each image, and helping to add metadata.
To browse the collection, go here:
http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/mfdcphot.html
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