Find Digital Images
The University Libraries’ various digitized image collections are available via a Web-based catalog called Digital Diamond which exists separately from Diamond, the main library catatlog. Digital Diamond is available as a choice from the main menu screen when accessing Diamond.
Users can search a specific image collection, archive, or the entire database by keyword, name, title, subject and date using a search string of their choice. Records retrieved as search results contain thumbnail images that link directly to a larger image view.
Finding digital images on the Internet from other repositories can be a matter of prior knowledge of a collection’s existence or diligent searching. One evolving solution involves central databases that harvest metadata from many research repositories and point users back to those repositories for image viewing. One such database is OAIster, a University of Michigan library service that currently houses over nine million records--to both digitized images and documents--from over 600 institutions.
This page last updated: October 17, 2006
Users can search a specific image collection, archive, or the entire database by keyword, name, title, subject and date using a search string of their choice. Records retrieved as search results contain thumbnail images that link directly to a larger image view.
Finding digital images on the Internet from other repositories can be a matter of prior knowledge of a collection’s existence or diligent searching. One evolving solution involves central databases that harvest metadata from many research repositories and point users back to those repositories for image viewing. One such database is OAIster, a University of Michigan library service that currently houses over nine million records--to both digitized images and documents--from over 600 institutions.
This page last updated: October 17, 2006