"Imaging Pittsburgh: Creating a shared gateway to digital image collections of the Pittsburgh region"
I personally found this article to be very thought-provoking in that it gave me a behind-the-scenes look at how a website such as Historic Pittsburgh is made possible. As an intern for the Heinz History Center, I have heard a lot about Historic Pittsburgh and have explored the site quite a bit. Considering this, it was fascinating for me to read about the obstacles and triumphs that presented themselves during the creation of this gateway to historic images of Pittsburgh. In particular, I found Galloway's discussion of the challenges he and his content partners faced as they tried to forge this vision into digital reality. I found their transparency concerning this challenges to be inspiring and I am sure that other organizations that have begun similar projects have turned to Galloway and his team for advice.
I found the section dedicated to the challenges concerning metadata to be interesting. I thought their choice to identify core Dublin Core fields was very wise in light of the number of institutions contributing to this gateway. I also appreciated the challenges they faced concerning issues of copyright. With different copyright specifications for each institution, I thought their solution to post a general statement concerning copyright while also directing the user to see the specific standards to each institution was a wise conclusion.
On a more editorial note, I also enjoyed being able to read the article while also having the Historic Pittsburgh website up. It was great to be able to interact with the site and therefore further understand different aspects of the site that Galloway was discussing.
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