In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I took a look at some basic issues of digital imaging of historical artifacts. In this part, I develop a brief worksheet for inventory reporting for artifact photo collections...
Reporting Worksheet: Artifact Photo Collection
Use this worksheet to report information about a collection of artifact photos. If more than one distinct collection is available at the current site, please report each on a separate worksheet. All questions on this worksheet are strictly voluntary; if you don't know the answer to a question, or just don't care to answer, please feel free to leave it blank.
Identifying information
- Reporting party:
- Reporting date:
- Brief (one-line) description of collection:
- Collection location; name of institution or individual:
- Collection location; address:
- Artifact location; name of institution or individual:
- Artifact location; address:
Photo information
Please fill out the subsection of this section corresponding to the type of photos in the collection. If you have more than one version of the same collection of photos, please fill out all relevant subsections. If there are only a few photos of some type, please just note them in the additional comments section. When necessary, please use approximate, average, or typical data.
Photo information: digital photos
- Date photos were taken:
- Location photos were taken:
- Number of photos:
- Size of a single photo (pixels horizontal × vertical, e.g. 800×600):
- Size of a single photo (bytes of storage, e.g. 100KB):
- Image file format (e.g. "raw", jpg, png, gif, tiff):
- Camera model used to take images:
- Other relevant comments:
Photo information: digitized ("scanned") film photos
- Date photos were taken:
- Location photos were taken:
- Date scanning was performed:
- Location scanning was performed:
- Number of scans:
- Scans are color, grayscale, or black-and-white?
- Scanning resolution (pixels per inch horizontal × vertical, e.g. 600×300):
- Size of a single scan (bytes of storage, e.g. 100KB):
- Image file format (e.g. jpg, png, gif, tiff, ps, pdf):
- Scanner model used to acquire images:
- Other relevant comments:
Photo information: film photos
- Date photos were taken:
- Location photos were taken:
- Number of photos:
- Photos are color or grayscale?
- Photo format (e.g. prints, slides, negatives):
- Image size (e.g. 35mm negative, 4×6" print):
- Camera model used for photos:
- Other relevant comments:
Notes, Comments, Etc