From Sights to Sounds: A New Model for Integrating Audio Description into Library Digital Image Collections

Abstract

Libraries and other cultural heritage institutions have grown their image collections
through large-scale digitization projects, including, for example, the US Library of
Congress, which just in the past five years has added 21 petabytes of data. These digital
materials are a boon to historians, educators, and the general public, but they raise concerns
about exacerbating an accessibility gap