Author's Brief
Clearinghouse of Image Databases

revised 28 September 2004

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.

Editorial Policies and Process

The Clearinghouse operates with an open invitation for submissions. Little editing is 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 may be searched 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 is 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.