This is a collection of Napoleonic satirical prints produced between 1792 and 1829, from Germany, Britain, France, Holland, and Russia. The "about" section of the website details the scope and contents of the collection as well as holding information. It also provides technical information, noting that:
The satires were scanned at 600 DPI 24 bit color and saved as uncompressed TIFF images. The TIFFs were then migrated to JPEG (125, 750, 1500, 300 pixel) and MrSid (3000 pixel) images for distribution via the web. The scans were cataloged by Hope Saska in the IRIS image cataloging tool using the VRA core categories. The IRIS records were then uploaded to Luna Insight and further converted into XML records for inclusion in the central database.
Thc site allows you to browse by title, creator and contributors, and also by thumbnail. One of the titles is, "Austrian bugaboo funking the French army." Since I am not quite sure that that means, I decided to check it out. The page that comes up states that there are three different retrieval options. You can view the image, view a description, or view the document map. The page tells you is the image is in the public domain and then provides Brown's contact address to gain more information about reproduction of the images in the collection.
The view image feature allows you to zoom in to specific parts of the image and to rotate the image. A lot of the images have handwriting on them, but with the magnification, we are able to read what is on the image. The image description section provides all the necessary bibliographic data and the document map provides the metadata for the objects.
I think this site does a great job with metadata, image quality, and control issues. It's not a very exciting site, but it's detailed and organized. It also comes with other features such as timelines and essays, which many of the other library run sites have not included. This provides excellent contextual information for the digital objects..
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