Taller de Graffica Popular from Princeton University's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections contains prints from Mexico's "first self-supporting art workshop" and includes political and comic prints from several Latin American artists. Known as TGP, this group was founded in 1937 by three Mexican artists. This is one of several Digital Collections at Princton University. I really think Princeton has done an excellent job with their presentation of information regarding digitization of materials and I like the user interface. It is unmuddled and informative.
Collection Principles
Princeton has mindfully articulated a mission of digitization in order to preserve and provide access to the university's unique holdings. The site states that the digital collections, though relatively few, document their experience with the digitization process. The administrators welcome digitzation projects from places outside the library in the university community and provides detailed information for determining the appropriateness of digitzation projects. It is rare to find a site that provides such transparency into their process and standards.
Object Characteristics
Princeton provides information on creating unique identifiers for digital objects, as well as standards for digitizing information objects. In terms of this specific collection, descriptive metadata and information pertaining to retrieval (both physical and virtual) of the objects. A link to the collection's online catalog entry is provided. Other collections also include information regarding the items digital location. Users are also given viewing options for interacting with the objects. In this case, "collection images" is the only option, but many of the other collections have other options (page images and full text). The full text gives you html text, without graphics or embellishments. If you select the images view, you can then decide to look at an enlarged image or browse by thumbnail groupings. You can also click on a button that allows you to manipulate the digitized image (zoom in, rotate, pan).
Metadata
The information regarding the digitzation provides all of the metadata schemas used by the project. The amount of metadata provided for the digital object is appropriate in that it provides all of the information an average user might need.
Audience
Scholars in political science, graphic arts, Latin American history and culture, anyone.
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