Project Overview |
Scope • Repairs • Access • Scanning • Timeline • Project Staff |
This project site documents the work of the University of Illinois' Slavic and East European Library to digitize these posters. As the project progresses we will update these pages, and they will serve as the gateway to the digital collection when digitization has been completed. See the University Archives' record of the poster collection.
Scanning of the posters was initiated in test runs earlier this year. With the purchase of new equipment by DSD in early summer, scanning of the collection began in June 2005 and should be completed by late fall. The images will be accessible when scanning is complete; description and translation work will continue on an ongoing basis.
Miranda Remnek, Head of the Slavic & East European Library, initiated the project and serves as superviser.
Patricia Hswe, CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Slavic & East European Library, handles the day-to-day tasks of the project, primarily metadata construction.
Associate Professor Frank Gladney and Assistant Professor David Cooper, both of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UIUC, are consulting on content and verifying translations.
Assistant University Archivist Chris Prom is consulting on technical matters along with Nuala Koetter, Head of DSD, and Amy Maroso-Hatcher, DSD's Project Coordinator for the Illinois Digitization Institute.
Marc Gartler, GSLIS '05, served as Graduate Assistant in 2004-2005 on the project. With Chris Prom's help, Marc composed a finding aid in EAD for the collection; built the original website for the project; and is largely responsible for devising the metadata schema (based on the VRA Core, version 3.0).