Making decisions about selection, reformatting, and access requires negotiation, and no single approach brings multiple parties into easy agreement. The pilot site describes the project and provides the tools to enables users to download the necessary SGML files and create records. Searching will be available, but since the participating agencies are only contributing a small number of records to the pilot, the information available will only represent a fraction of the total. This collection contains more than 13,000 images of watercolors, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from Australia's National Library's Pictorial Collection. The forms-based search permits users to search the associated catalog records.
Results are returns in table format, comprising the title, artist, and thumbnail of the image.
The default is set to suppress the thumbnail, but settings may be adjusted prior to initiating the search. Advanced, boolean searching is also available. The collections are particularly strong in the areas of music and Canadian history and culture. Charles H. Bailey of the University of Houston Libraries has released Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography . The collection may be browsed by topic or searched by keyword.