This large collection of posters was scanned over a period of two years. The project's Digital Photographer captured each war poster using a Power Phase FX digital camera system. Each poster was be saved as a high-resolution 24-bit color, uncompressed TIFF image, with a minimum resolution of 300 pixels per inch. We also derived thumbnail and screen-size "reference" images for presentation on the web. Our TIFF "master" images were stored on DVD and RAID-array storage.

The project Metadata Cataloging Specialist used the following metadata scheme to describe each digitized war poster:

• Unique Digital Identifier
• Other Identifier(s)
• Title
• Series
• Caption
• Creator
• Publisher
• Other contributors
• Year of creation
• Owning Repository
• Object Location
• Ownership History
• Medium
• Media
• Original Dimensions
• Description
• Subject Terms
• Use/Rights
• Notes
• File Format
• Bit Depth
• Resolution

These metadata elements, plus other infromation, were encoded using XML. XML-encoded metadata was then imported into a database system designed for this project. This database is what you use when searching the collection.