digitized object
I intend to use the object on the collecting project website for this class, either somewhere on the main page or in the images pages. I scanned the image with Photoshop as a jpg at 300 dpi. I chose this particular way of doing it because, for one, jpg files are fairly standard and offer a good balance of detail and ease of download. I scanned at 300 dpi in order to make the image of print quality in case someone should choose to use it for that purpose off the site and also to be small enough to fit a standard sized monitor. It should still be able to be downsampled for a lower res version for the main images page as well. I did not do an archival quality image because I know of at least six brick and mortar archives which have the image. It is also commercially available in print, so there is no worry that the image will be lost. It is however, essentially a requisite image for any site on the topic of the accidents and it beats copying a 72 dpi photo elsewhere on the Net.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Interesting that you chose an image that’s already available in digital format because it’s not necessarily accessible in the higher-res format that you and others might find useful…nice job thinking through the angles…
February 14th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Thanks. It comes out of practical experience. I once had the task of finding a publication-quality picture of someone from off the Net and could not find one despite 5 hours searching. I figured I was not the only one to ever look for photos that way.