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How to determine what is/is not deposited
These are general guidelines around depositing patron requests.
Depositing Digital Images
What is deposited?
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- Whole objects
- Single pages of illuminated manuscripts
- Items under copyright or otherwise restricted may be deposited, with curatorial permission, as “Harvard-only,” or entirely suppressed from public view.
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- regardless of copyright status
What is not deposited?
- Single pages of a text or letter.
- Partial pages of any kind.
- Double spread of text only (double spreads of images should be deposited)
- Anything that is not a whole object
Structural (PDS) Metadata
This is required when there are multiple images from a single item that need to be made into a “page turning” digital object: a book; a 4-page letter, etc.
When to use Structural Metadata?
- Complete objects that contain three or more pages with very few exceptions
- When there are six or more images from any one object, but the whole object is not digitized.
When is structural metadata not needed?
- If the complete object only contains one or two pages.
- If there are less than six images from one object and is not a complete object.
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- Simple Structural Metadata is used for almost all requests, even single images.
- Complex Structural Metadata is used when the object will contain nodes.
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