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Interactive videodisc project at University College Dublin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Angela Hastings
Angela Hastings*
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Architecture and Planning Library, University College Dublin, Dublin, Eire
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Abstract

A six-month project undertaken by the University College Dublin School of Architecture has investigated the possibilities of putting a collection of images, transferred from slides, on to videodisc accessed through a computer. The project grew out of an earlier project to computerize the catalogue of the Slide Library of the Architecture and Planning Library. Drawbacks include loss of image quality and the impossibility of adding to the disc once pressed. Changing technology may provide answers to some of these problems, enabling the benefits confirmed by the project’s successful completion to be exploited further.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , 1986, pp. 19 - 23
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1986

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