[Sca-cooks] Project Idea--resource for food, tableware, food plants, herbs

[Johnna Holloway]

This is rather interesting. Let me play with it some and see
if there is any easier way to do this.
In the long run what might be more helpful would be to create a file
of all these archives, museums, libraries, houses, etc that are
offering images or digital scans and do a detailed description of what 
they offer.
V&A is up for instance. British Museum is up. Bibliotheque Nationale
has things up. I have to wonder if the expense in time to
index this one collection would be better spent doing a more comprehensive
survey of all of them. Indexing images is a big project. Just 
establishing the
thesaurus could take a real investment in time. Also perhaps getting in 
touch with
the people at the Pierpoint Morgan would be helpful. It could well be 
that they already plan
to offer or extend the indexing sometime in the future.

Johnnae
(speaking here as a librarian and as someone that teaches image searching.)


Sharon Gordon wrote:

>This announcement was in the SCA newletter
>SCA Today - http://scatoday.net/
>"Corsair, the online research resource for the Pierpont Morgan Library,
>makes available thousands
>of digital images from the library's medieval and Renaissance manuscript
>collection.
>The images available include examples from all the major schools and are
>accompanied by
>descriptions."   Site at:
>http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm
>
>snipped
>There is a ton of good detailed images in this collection which would be
>useful across a wide spectrum of SCA interests.  Anyone want to go on this
>treasure hunt and help organize the booty?
>
>Sharon
>gordonse at one.net
>
>  
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