About the Project
This digitised imaging system was made possible by the sponsorship of Toyota
City which began in 1993 with the appointment at the Bodleian Library of a
Toyota Research Assistant who compiled the database for the project. It
focuses on the 15 boxes of Motor Car ephemera in the John Johnson Collection,
supplemented by 1,000 images of other forms of transport.
The images were produced by means of Kodak's Photo-CD technology: the
original items were photographed onto 35mm slides, and scanned onto
Photo-CD discs. These were then processed to convert the images to
compressed JPEG and GIF images at the various resolutions used in the system.
The bibliographic information for each item is held in SGML (Standard
Generalised Markup Language) format, conforming to the TEI (Text Encoding
Initiative) scheme. The SGML records are processed by a TCL script and
converted to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for display on the World
Wide Web
Further information on the Project may be found in the following publications:-
- Gartner, Richard Digitising the Bodleian?, Audiovisual librarian
August 1993 Vol 19 No 3 pp 220-223
- Gartner, Richard Conserving by numbers: introducing digital imaging
into Oxford University Microform Review Spring 1994 Vol 23 No 2 pp
49-52
- Robinson, Peter The Digitization of Primary Text Sources Oxford:
Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 4, 1993
