diglib: air photos on disk.

[Jon R Jablonski <jonjab@uoregon.edu>]

This is an issue that I've been planning on bringing to DCC pre-emptively, 
but now it's coming to the fore-front.

A researcher at an OSU extension in Eastern Oregon scanned a large number 
of our aerial photographs and purchased a number of others for a research 
project.  At the time she casually offered to give them all to us as 
geo-referenced files.  She has recently contacted Colin and said she is 
ready to start burning DVDs for us.  She will also be including some 
parcel boundaries from the area.

The collection will consist of some 1400 files, all of the Zumwalt 
Prairie.  They will most likely be 5400x5400 pixel grayscale images.

Several immediate questions come to mind:

--How will we store them?
--How will we incorporate digital-only images into our Aerial Photo
  Research Service.
--How will we provide access to the files to our academic users?

I am about to open a channel of communication directly to the researcher. 
I would love some input as to what sorts of questions to ask her.

ps:  there is a second gift of this nature in the pipeline as well.

-jon

Jon Jablonski
jonjab@uoregon.edu
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