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German Society of Pennsylvania

Repository ID: 0017 | Metadata type: TEI

Documents from the German Society of Pennsylvania

Licensing

Images

Unless otherwise stated, all images from the German Society of Pennsylvania and their content hosted here are ©2016 German Society of Pennsylvania. They are licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0):

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Metadata

Unless otherwise stated, all manuscript descriptions and other cataloging metadata hosted here are ©2016 The German Society of Pennsylvania. They are licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Licensed version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0):

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Intended Users

The data presented on OPenn is intended for aggregators, digital humanists, and scholars who have been directed here to procure high-resolution images and their associated metadata. It is presented in a manner most likely to ensure its long-term digital preservation.

About the German Society of Pennsylvania

Founded in 1764, The German Society of Pennsylvania is America’s oldest German organization. Its Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library, housed in a beautiful 19th century reading room, holds one of the largest private collections of German-language books in the U.S. The German American Collection contains a wealth of material documenting all aspects of German American life, beginning with the first settlers in Germantown in 1683. In addition to books, the library houses sizable collections of 19th century Philadelphia German newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and manuscripts. The online catalog can be viewed at: http://gsp.library.net

OPenn includes some of the items from the German Society of Pennsylvania. For more information on all of the collections available at the German Society see:

http://www.germansociety.org

Image standards and specifications

Images from the German Society of Pennsylvania collections were shot and processed by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image. In general, SCETI follows the NISO standards as articulated in A Framework for Building Good Digital Collections, 3rd Edition:

http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf

The following represents specific standards adopted by SCETI in their capture of digital images.

Image specifications

Archival Masters: 600 ppi 24-bit raw TIFF color image
"Golden Thread" color target is used for every exposure. Target also includes interference pattern and inch/centimeter markings. Target is also used to check focus.

Imaging and processing equipment

Cameras: IQ280 80 megapixel Phase One digital camera
Lenses: Schneider Kreuznach lenses
Software: Phase One Capture One Pro; Photoshop CS3

Master images are captured at a resolution of at least 600 pixels per inch of the image subject. Once all of the images for a manuscript have been captured they are color-corrected, deskewed, and cropped.

In 2015, SCETI began using IQ280 Phase One digital cameras; however, OPenn contains images that were captured using different equipment before this time. If you have questions about a specific manuscript or image, please refer to the header of the Master image or images in question or the accompanying XMP files. You can see this, for example, in the Master images for Penn Manuscript Ms. Codex 1096 at http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/mscodex1096/data/master/. Note the metadata in the image header of 0396_0000.tif or in its sidecar XMP file 0396_0000.tif.xmp as seen below.

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  <tiff:BitsPerSample>
   <rdf:Seq>
    <rdf:li>8</rdf:li>
    <rdf:li>8</rdf:li>
    <rdf:li>8</rdf:li>
   </rdf:Seq>
  </tiff:BitsPerSample>
  <tiff:Compression>1</tiff:Compression>
  <tiff:ImageLength>6121</tiff:ImageLength>
  <tiff:ImageWidth>4655</tiff:ImageWidth>
  <tiff:Make>Phase One</tiff:Make>
  <tiff:Model>P 45+</tiff:Model>
  <tiff:Orientation>1</tiff:Orientation>
  <tiff:PhotometricInterpretation>2</tiff:PhotometricInterpretation>
  <tiff:PlanarConfiguration>1</tiff:PlanarConfiguration>
  <tiff:ResolutionUnit>2</tiff:ResolutionUnit>
  <tiff:SamplesPerPixel>3</tiff:SamplesPerPixel>
  <tiff:Software>Capture One 4 Windows</tiff:Software>
  <tiff:XResolution>600/1</tiff:XResolution>
  <tiff:YResolution>600/1</tiff:YResolution>
 </rdf:Description>

The documents on OPenn

Acc 1992-01: Arno Silge Diary (Saint Louis (Mo.), From 1921 to 1984)
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