"Vertigo, by Lynd Ward" represents a collaboration within the Rutgers University Libraries between Special Collections and University Archives and the Scholarly Communications Center. The surfaces of the woodblocks were digitally photographed by members of the SCC in September, 2002, using a Sony DSC-F707 camera with 5.0 megapixels, and in January, using the SCC's new Phase One PowerPhase FX digital studio camera system. The archival image files were saved and stored in TIFF format on the SCC's image archive drive. The September files averaged 15 MBs apiece. The January files, because of the higher resolutions possible with the new camera, averaged 25 MBs. Jeffery Triggs (Applications Developer at the SCC) created the presentation files by compressing the original TIFFs into DjVu format using the phototodjvu utility at default specifications. The resulting DjVu files average about 750 KBs in size, with some variation dependent on the size of the original and the amount of detailed color information in each image. Jeffery Triggs hosts the website on the Linux server of the Scholarly Communications Center (www2.scc.rutgers.edu). The Project Director, Michael Joseph (rare books librarian), wrote the descriptive text, with assistance from Special Collections staff. Michael Joseph and Jeffery Triggs co-designed the website. Questions regarding technological issues should be addressed to Jeffery Triggs (triggs@rci.rutgers.edu); all other questions should be addressed to Michael Joseph (mjoseph@rci.rutgers.edu).

This exhibition is an ongoing project of the Scholarly Communication Center, under the supervision of Linda Langschied and Ryoko Toyama, and a part of Rutgers University Libraries digital library. The ultimate purpose of the project is to render the entire body of woodblocks used for the text of Vertigo available for research and teaching using djvu software, and to preserve the uncompressed digitized images.