This is an individual assignment. The purpose of the assignment is to guarantee that you have hands-on experience of scanning and reformatting images, so it is not allowed for one person to scan some images and then copy them to another person for this exercise.
Images can be taken from photographic prints, or from a printed book, or from any other material. Modern digital photographs are not acceptable. Be cautious of copyright issues. According to the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998, copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years, and for works of corporate authorship, 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier. If you use family photographs for this exercise, for security reasons, omit your mother's maiden name, or give her an imaginary maiden name.
You need to size the scanned images correctly and systematically, using a relevant photo editing software (such as Photoshop and Corel Draw). If you do not want to purchase Photoshop, Krita Studio (available at Tigerware) is a good open-source alternative. Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing program for Mac. LSU Tigerware (in your myLSU account) also provides several photo editing software, such as "DzSoft Quick Photo Resizer" and an old version of Corel Draw. Previous students have also used XnView, JPEG-Optimizer and Pixlr to edit images. Adjust the dpi of the images to relevant levels; typical numbers for dpi (and standard sizes) will be addressed in the lectures.
The LSU Student Computer Labs may have computers that are installed with Adobe Photoshop and other photo editing software. The SLIS Lab may have Photoshop Elements and Corel Draw Graphics Suite X4 installed on some of the machines. Demo versions of Photoshop Elements can be downloaded from Adobe.com.
A tutorial on how to use Photoshop to create access and thumbnail images is available here: PDF. Many tutorials on how to use Photoshop and Corel Draw are available on the Web, e.g.,
To meet the minimum requirement of 3 thumbnails and 3 access images, you must upload a minimum of 6 different images. The images will probably be in JPEG (or JPG). It is not acceptable to use HTML size instructions (e.g., width="75" height="150") to make an image appear as a thumbnail in one context, and an access copy in another. Note that JPEG is not an ideal format for text doucments, although I accept JPEG for this exercise. You may play with other formats (such as PNG/GIF, PDF+OCR).
The filenames of the images should distinguish clearly and consistently between thumbnails and access images. Filenames must also be systematically applied. For example, if you have a pair of images about Lincoln, you might want to name them as lincoln_thumb.jpg and lincoln_access.jpg. In other words, name the images in a way easy for human beings to tell which is the thumbnail, which is the access image, and whether they are a pair.
You can either hand-code the digitization sampler Web page/site or use an HMTL editing software (such as Dreamweaver). Name your digitization sampler Web page as hw4.html, and make a link from your course Web site (i.e., 7410.html) to hw4.html. Include a clear descriptive title on your Web page(s). If you have short notes for the instructor, present them directly on your hw4.html Web page/site. If you have long notes, write them down on a separate page (e.g., readme.html) and make a link from your hw4.html page to this page. If you include metadata that can only be seen by using "View/Source," indicate that clearly in the notes.
The quality of presentation of the materials is a relevant factor in grading, so please organize your hw4.html Web site/page well. Your hw4.html page should display the thumbnails, and clicking each thumbnail should open a Web page that displays its corresponding access image. The above satisfies minimum requirements and proves that every individual student is capable of creating a minimal system.
For additional credit, you can do the following extra work:
This can be an independent assignment; there is no requirement to coordinate the content with that of later assignments. But content used for the Digitization Sampler can be incorporated in the Sample Digital Library when appropriate.
Grading guidelines:
Yejun Wu
