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Digitizing the GRI’s Julius Shulman Photography Archive Discovery, Delivery & Preservation Teresa Soleau Head, Library Systems & Digital Collections Management Getty Research Institute

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Digitizing the GRI’s Julius Shulman Photography

Archive Discovery, Delivery & Preservation

Teresa Soleau Head, Library Systems & Digital Collections Management

Getty Research Institute

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Julius Shulman, 1910-2009, was an active architectural photographer from 1936 until 1986. Representing his career, the archive documents the modern movement in architecture spanning several decades and serves as a historical record of the Southern California landscape. Shulman's prolific career has helped to promote and broaden the knowledge of modern architecture by the thoughtful manner which he conveyed architectural design.

Job 130: Wurdeman & Becket, Bullock's (Department store), (Pasadena, Calif.), 1947

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Collection Reformatting

Job 1108: Don Williamson, Laguna Beach Bank, 1951

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Collection Reformatting• Project completed over a number of years (2010-2013) with

different vendors, funders and project team members

• Portions of Series II, III and IV were digitized totally ca. 5,500 “jobs” and ca. 52,000 images.

• Most imaging done in-house but some early work outsourced to Cinetech

• Funding from multiple sources including Mellon and NHPRC

• Some reformatting done with goal to add to ARTStor and Calisphere

• Often combined with reformatting of other photograph collections - namely Leonard Nadel and Alexander Liberman collections

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Image Derivatives

Created 3 representations for each image:

1.) Preservation master representation - 16-bit tifs• highest quality file we have, only accessible to staff• image files contain color target for prints• Not color-corrected for color images

2.) Modified master representation - 8-bit tifs• mezzanine level file, only accessible to staff• color target cropped out and color images corrected

3.) Access representation - jpegs• web quality file, accessible to patrons• still high resolution (3,000 pixels on long edge)

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Collection Reformatting• For color images that were color-shifted, we made the decision to

leave preservation master files as captured from media, but color correct modified master and access files

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Discovery and Delivery

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Discovery and Delivery

Subset of Images available for discovery

and download - ca. 6,000Links in these systems

lead back to GRI Digital Collections for

download

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Discovery and Delivery

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Discovery and Delivery

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Discovery and Delivery

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Discovery and Delivery

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Discovery and Delivery

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Discovery and Delivery

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Staff Self Service

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Collection Preservation

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Preservation System

• Contains 120TB total• 1,600,000 files and growing• Went live in June 2013 (3 years ago)• Actively participate in Rosetta User Group• 15 institutions in North America and over 100 worldwide

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Preservation FunctionsValidation stack

• fixity calculation• file format identification (using DROID)• technical metadata extracted for many file types (using Jhove)

• alerts for corrupt/non-standard files• virus check (we’re currently doing this outside the system)• risk assessment (specific to your institutional capabilities)

Complex storage rules • saving master files differently than access files• master files are saved to tape nightly• replicated to off-site tape and to cloud storage• access files remain on spinning disk (readily accessible)

Provenance/Event metadata (PREMIS-based)

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Still to Explore

• IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework

• Linked Open Data

• Collaboration with HistoricPlacesLA

Job 2745: Austin, Field and Fry, First Federal Savings and Loan (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1959 Teresa Soleau – Endless Images 2016

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Questions & [email protected]

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