Determining the Team and the Project
When we applied for the grant, we began to assemble the team.
For project manager our Director of Libraries selected our Visual
Resources Curator, who had managed Pratt’s digitization program for
over a year and had a background in photography, metadata, and
technology. As the Institute’s archivist, I had devoted considerable
effort to researching, organizing, and preserving the archives’ large
image collection, and was therefore asked to serve as the selector and
conservator of the materials to be digitized.
Throughout the course of the project, both the project manager
and I took several of the digitization training courses offered by