Cornell University and the Frick Art Reference Library have engaged in a collaborative project to explore the creation of compatible databases of digital images from the study collections of the two institutions. CIDC was actively involved in the planning phase of this project, including identifying media types and formats, determining the scanning requirements of the materials, scanning a sample of images, choosing appropriate and compatible database fields, creating a test database, and estimating costs. CIDC's collaborators is the Human-Computer Interactive Group at Cornell and efforts to assess the requirements of users of both collections. A summary of their findings was reported in an article entitled Project Soup.
With the planning phase now complete, the actual processing of the
approximately 13,000 architectural photographs from the historic Andrew
Dickson White collection and 15,000 images of art from the Frick's
Anonymous American School collection has been turned over to the
respective curatorial units.