Now to the actually adding of an image. I have picked out about 250-275 images that I want to add to the exhibit so keep that in mind when I talk about all the steps it takes.

Firstly, I added images by collection. I had already picked out all the images I wanted to use from my hard drive and I searched all of those images for ‘Cook’. Cook images have a number after them (i.e.: Cook 319) so I wrote down all of the Cook numbers so I could go to the original images.

Once I had all the numbers, I went to the vault and proceeded to pull all of the original images, one-by-one, and take a picture of the metadata that was on the envelope with my phone to make sure I had all the available information before adding the image to the collection. 

As you can see, there are 4 parts to adding each image. I firstly added the Dublin Core information, the Item Type Metadata, and the file.

I typically added the image first.

Then I added the Item Type Metadata. When I pulled the originals, I also wrote down what type of material the item was. Most in the Cook collection are 5x7 glass plate negatives.

Then I went back to the beginning and added the Dublin Core metadata. Just like with the Collections, I don’t fill out every box. As you can see, for the title I used the collection number and the subject & description were the rest of the image title from the hard drive. The other data is the same for every image and I copied and pasted it from a notepad into the correct boxes. I then save the Item to ensure the site doesn’t freeze and I don’t loose the basic information before I write a more detailed description and tags (I learned from experience).

I then describe the image in detail and use that description to add the tags.

As you can see, each image takes a while to add. There were 60 Cook images and it look me 3-4 weeks just to add those images to the collection. Now I have to do the other 200+ images... :D