Browsing by Subject "photographs"

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    A New Look at Old Abe’s Color Guard
    (Coddington, 2019) Phillips, Tyler; Zou, Xukai; Byrd, Kenneth E.; Computer and Information Science, School of Science
    Many images of the American Civil War exist today and allow us to gain insight into the lives’ of those involved in the conflict. Unfortunately, these images also pose questions as many of the soldiers they depict are unidentified or identified with unknown reliability. One such image is that of the Wisconsin Infantry Color Guard and their bald eagle mascot “Old Abe.” One of the men in the color guard has been identified as George W. Riley due to an inscription on the back of the image. We perform state-of-art biometric-facial analysis of this soldier and several candidate identities. Through this biometric analysis and corroborating historical documents, we present compelling evidence that this soldier is not George W. Riley, but is more likely Walter J. Quick.
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    Shoot, taste and post: an exploratory study of food and tourism experiences in an online image-share community
    (Texas A & M University Press, 2012) Liu, Bingjie; Norman, William C.; Backman, Sheila J.; Cuneo, Karen; Condrasky, Margaret
    This paper presents the results from an exploratory study of food and tourism experiences in the online image-share community Flickr.comTM. The purpose of this research was to provide a description of Flickr food group members' behaviour of taking pictures of food, as well as to better understand the role of food pictures in their travel experiences. The study found that members' travel experiences were recorded and shared socially through food photography. While food images could be regarded as a trip motivator, it is hard to regard it as the primary trip purpose.
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    The Use of Personal Value Estimations to Select Images for Preservation in Public Library Digital Community Collections
    (2014-05) Copeland, Andrea J.
    A considerable amount of information, particularly in image form, is shared on the web through social networking sites. If any of this content is worthy of preservation, who decides what is to be preserved and based on what criteria. This paper explores the potential for public libraries to assume this role of community digital repositories through the creation of digital collections. Thirty public library users and thirty librarians were solicited from the Indianapolis metropolitan area to evaluate five images selected from Flickr in terms of their value to public library digital collections and their worthiness of long-term preservation. Using a seven-point Likert scale, participants assigned a value to each image in terms of its importance to self, family and society. Participants were then asked to explain the reasoning behind their valuations. Public library users and librarians had similar value estimations of the images in the study. This is perhaps the most significant finding of the study, given the importance of collaboration and forming partnerships for building and sustaining community collections and archives.