Task Name: Walpole Digital Library Enhancements

Task Description: The main focus of the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection is the Library's world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The Digital Collection has expanded to encompass prints, drawings, and watercolors related to Horace Walpole's collection and house at Strawberry Hill. Plans for the coming year include making the collection available through the Luna Insight interface in addition to the present DL interface, and to enhance existing minimal catalog records with full catalog records extracted from Orbis as these records are created.

ILTS Group(s):
Integrated Systems & Programming
Web, Workstation & Digital Consulting Services

Status: On Hold

Status Comment: Planning meeting held in October 2004. Walpole staff will map MARC metadata to image database requirements. WW&DCS and IS&P will test export/import mechanism.

Initial Period of Activity: Fall 04

Start Date: 10/1/2004

End Date: 12/31/2005

Initiative Type: Infrastructure

Primary Category: Digital Collections

Primary Stakeholder: Walpole

Additional Stakeholders: Cataloging, Public

E-mail Contact: margaret.powell@yale.edu