THE COLLABORATORS
| CU Library staff and offices | Sarah E. Thomas (Carl A. Kroch Librarian).
Generously provided resources to create the Pumpkin Watch project, thus
facilitating this fun and simple idea.
Oliver B. Habicht (Cornell Institute for Digital Collections). Conceptualized project, determined software and hardware needs, and created and maintains the web pages and video linkages. Photos of Oliver at his former office at CIT. Peter B. Hirtle (Director Cornell Institute for Digital Collections). Generously permits Oliver to participate in the Pumpkin Watch project after Oliver was hired by the Library in December. H. Thomas Hickerson (Director Rare & Manuscript Collections Acting Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies) Enthusiastically provided Kroch Library staff, equipment, and software and hardware funds C.J. Lance-Duboscq (Rare & Manuscript Collections). Quickly registered the mnemonic domain name for project, and procured the original Macintosh computer. Elaine D. Engst (Rare & Manuscript Collections). Oliver's initial Library contact, and good friend. Anne R. Kenney (Department of Preservation and Conservation). Place from which our camera casts its eye towards the pumpkin's tower. The location? Olin Library, 7th floor. |
| CIT & OIT staff,
and other key contributers |
Ricky R. Stewart
(CIT/ATS/Labs). Kindly permited
Oliver, when working at CIT, to initially engage in the Pumpkin Watch project.
Steven L. Worona (CIT Office of Information Technologies). Provided the current Macintosh computer with video card. Also, generously loaned the video camera to Oliver that was originally used to create the prototype project. Diane M. Kuberak (CIT/ATS/Academic Technology Center). Provided pig-tail (NTSC composite video (RCA connector) to S-video "in") which is required hardware to allow camcorder to communicate to S-video card. Linda Grace-Kobas (Director Cornell University News Service). Generously providing the current camcorder, which is her personal home video camcamera (with zoom capability.) Robert L. Feldman (Cornell Cooperative Extension). Generously provided the initial camcorder, which is his personal home video camcamera (with zoom capability.) |
THE TECHNOLOGIES
| Hardware
About $2,000 |
Apple Macintosh
computer. No longer produced, but functional 8100/110 (72MB
RAM, 2GB HD). We used the built-in ethernet to connect to the Internet.
In this set-up, the Mac captures the video and serves the images through
the web server it's also running.
Apple monitor (Multiscan 15) About $150 value, used. GE VHS Movie Video System (a camcorder). Has zoom capability. [Also recommended: Connectix Color QuickCam digitizing camera for Macintosh. About $230 from The Campus Store. Camera does not need an AV card; plugs right into serial port, powered through the ADB port.] |
| Software
CU's price: $130
|
Apple's
Operating System (7.6.1), with
Apple's
multi-platform QuickTime (2.5).
Site licensed at Cornell University. Otherwise, about $70 when it was
the current O/S.
Rearden's SiteCam. Software painlessly posts images for the web server. Costs $129, which we purchased over the web. StarNine's WebSTAR (2.1). Site licensed at Cornell University. Otherwise, about $500 over the web. AOL's AOLPress. (2.0) For roughing out our web pages. Free download from the web. [Also recommended: Connectix' RAMDoubler (1.6.2). Increased 32MB RAM to 64MBs. Costs $54 for the current version (2.0), available over the web.] |