Discovery
Web search allows the user to find text-based resources from collections all over the world. If images are tagged and web-accessible, they can also be found this way, and often are, either through public search engines or library collections. What would it be like to have a Google Scholar for images and other multimedia file types so we could combine public results with private holdings in our search processes? What would it take to expose not only text tags but also audio and video transcripts, ID3 tags and folksonomic attributions to such a search tool? How can we combine the best of library cataloging and digital repository efforts with the flexibility of a Web 2.0 architecture?
- Image Collections on Campus (Library Link; ads, music, medicine, photos)
- Duke Digital Collections(New! search across library collections)
- MDID@Duke — Online Visual Resources Collection (AAH&VS)
- ARTSTOR — large, downloadable collection including art, architecture, and archeology (Duke email account required to sign up as a user; contact debi.eason@duke.edu to get instructor privileges)