Author's Brief
Clearinghouse of Image Databases
revised 1 October 2008
Identification
The Clearinghouse of Image Databases is a searchable database hosted by the University of Arizona. It was created in July 1994 by Stuart Glogoff, then Assistant Dean for Library Information Systems at the University of Arizona. Glogoff continues to maintain it in his role of Sr. Consultant for Learning Technologies at the University of Arizona's Learning Technologies Center.
Audience
The Clearinghouse's audience is broad and international in scope. It is targeted at professionals working with imaging technology, librarians, archivists, metadata specialists, database administrators and others who are planning or developing databases containing digital objects. While the initial scope addressed digital images, content may include a variety of media.
Content and Scope
The Clearinghouse is multi-disciplinary and international in scope, although all entries to date are in the English language. While its primary orientation is to identify projects, these listings are supplemented with information on related publications, keys contacts, the project's purpose, and comments from the person submitting the information.
Projects are not limited to a particular media.
Closing the Entry Process
By August 2008, there had not been any new submissions to the Clearinghouse and the submission process was closed. An announcement was posted to IMAGELIB. At the request of professors in library science programs, the databse was left in tact.
Editorial Policies and Process
The Clearinghouse operated with an open invitation for submissions. Little editing was made to submissions. Certain data elements are required for submissions and the more data included in a submission, the better.
Physical Access
The Clearinghouse is available to anyone who has access to the Web.
Intellectual Access
The Clearinghouse was constructed with the intention of presenting its information in an open, easily identifiable format.
The Clearinghouse is searchable by keyword.
Management
The Clearinghouse is database is housed on a University of Arizona server. The data is backed daily according to standard procedures.
The original author's brief was written for a project sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Foundation in 1995 and has been updated periodically.
In June 2002, the original list structure to the Clearinghouse was frozen and replaced by a revised submissions form and the current searchable database. Data from original Clearinghouse entries was copied into the new database.
