5.3.1  Image Processing Worksheet

            This is the first option on the pull-down menu under Reports and Data.   It ties in with the discussion of the appropriate tool to signal the Status of an image, and with the report on Image Status, in that this Worksheet, too, is a workflow aid, rather than an aspect of the bibliographic or cataloguing data.

 

 

You may remember the series of steps taken to arrive at the Image Processing Worksheet:

• the manuscript description was entered into the database via the Synopsis View.
• the images were chosen (and thus acquired the Status level, "New").
• when the time came, you looked through the "New" images and chose the ones that the photographer would shoot in his upcoming campaign, and you indicated this choice by clicking on the button +Worksheet.

Those are the images that you now see on the Image Processing Worksheet with all their relevant bits of information:  the manuscript's shelfmark, the Digital Object ID (which we discuss in its place), the location of the image-to-be (folio, or page, or binding, or face of a document or whatever), together with the caption (if you had written one), and any eventual Note to the Photographer.  The Data Dictionary explains these in an organized way.

 

The report has features which by now you have come to know and love:  the total count of items on the worksheet; the small black arrow to the left of the shelfmark (we don't need to inform you of its function, but we will:  it takes you to the actual image record in Synopsis View); a Print button; a Close button.

 

When you print the Image Processing Worksheet, you'll see that the hard copy includes a small box to the right of each item.  It's there for your convenience, at your choice, with no implied or necessary use.  You could ignore it; you could use it to remind yourself which manuscripts were vault items and which weren't; the photographer could put a check in each box as he completed the shot.  We just thought it might prove useful.

 

Unexpected, but appreciated, will be two other features of the Image Processing Worksheet.  The Remove All button at the top of the form does precisely that, once you've assured the database that this is truly your considered and committed choice.

A caveat, though:  once you've pressed the Remove All button on the Image Processing Worksheet, all the listed images disappear from the Worksheet (yes! they do!), and like magic the Image status on each of their own particular records turns into a pumpkin.  Well, no; it turns into Status=In-Process.  If you wanted those particular images back on to an Image Processing Worksheet, you'd need to start the process +Worksheet all over again for each image.  Not the end of the world, not an impossible task, but still, be careful of what you wish for.

 

The X button to the far right of each item on the list allows you to excise that one item from the list; again, the database asks you to confirm such a rash action, but once reassured it will obey your orders. In this case, the image status reverts to New.