Managing Images Across the Campus Universe

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Caroline Caviness presentation for the "Images Unleashed" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd joint conference in Minneapolis, MN.

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Managing images across the campus universe

Caroline Caviness, ARTstor

VRA+ARLIS/NA

Joint Conference 2011

March 25, 1:30-3:00pm

INTRODUCTION

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•Background on Shared Shelf

•Addressing non-art content

o Key findings from

institutions

•New frontiers, open

questions

o Software functionalityo Privacy issues, file formats,

user interface

• Relevance for Visual Resources Professionals

Mission • ARTstor is a nonprofit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

• Mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields and contribute to the work of the arts and educational community.

• ARTstor's primary goals as an organization are:

• To assemble image collections from across many time periods and cultures that will, in the aggregate, have sufficient depth, breadth, and coherence to support a wide range of educational and scholarly activities;

• To create an organized, central, and reliable digital resource that supports noncommercial use of images for research, teaching and learning; and

• To work with the arts and educational communities to develop collective solutions to the complex challenges that are an inescapable part of working in a changing digital environment.

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Shared Shelf partnersLead partners

Partners

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SCIENCE & MEDICAL IMAGES SUB-COMMITTEE

•Members

•Scope and purpose

―What drives digital image use?

―How are these needs met?

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What we’ve learned:• Use cases

― Teaching ― Research

• File types• Privacy issues• Tools

― Image editing― Annotation― Sequencing

SCIENCE & MEDICAL IMAGES SUB-COMMITTEE

“Most [images] are located in faculty offices, languishing because it is too challenging to find an easy way to make them available to students and colleagues.”

-Survey respondent

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First user group• Binghamton University

• California College of the Arts

• California Institute of the Arts

• Columbia University

• DePauw University

• Drexel University

• Ithaca College

• Kansas City Art Institute

• Lafayette College

• Laguna College of Art and Design

• Lewis and Clark College

• New York School of Interior Design

• North Carolina State University

• Oregon College of Art and Craft

• Skidmore College

• Trinity College

• Union College

• University of Calgary

• University of California, San Diego

• University of Delaware

• University of Maryland

• University of Massachusetts, Boston

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• University of Ottawa

• University of Virginia

• Wright State University

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150+ Beta testers total

Majority from:• Library• Campus IT• Visual Arts• Art History• ArchitectureBut also….

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~62 Collections~2.8 per institution

First user group

First user group

Beta testers from:• Communications/PR• Campus museum• Science Library• Landscape Arch.• Biology• Classics• Music• Literature

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Darwin Core

Astronomy Visualization Metadata

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Dublin Core

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Online image management– Allows users to upload/download from anywhere – Supports collaboration

Online image management

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Accessibility & DiscoveryOpen Shelf

Mixing local & ARTstor content

Cataloging environment

Shared vocabularies

CloudComputing

Metasearch engine

Private Collection

Google Images

Asset management

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TEACHING & LEARNING TOOLS

• Image groups• Side by side

comparison• Presentation tools– Powerpoint– OIV

• 3d views & sequencing

Sequencing

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Sequencing

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Aggregated content =Interdisciplinary

serendipity

ChallengesAggregated content =Interdisciplinary

serendipity

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Publication to the ARTstor Digital Library

Benefits

Creator: Mark Catesby, 1679 - 1749, (Artist)Title: The Ground SquirrelWork Type: Print Date: 1731- 1743Material: hand-colored etchingSource: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Title: African ground squirrel

walkingKingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia

Family: Sciuridae Genus: Xerus

Species: Xerus inaurisCommon Name: African ground

squirrel Geographic Range: Africa

Habitat: Grasslands, Forests Diet: Omnivore

Source: Biology Department Teaching Collection

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Interdisciplinary Use•African-American Studies•American Studies•Anthropology•Architecture & Architectural History•Asian Studies•Classical Studies•Design & Decorative Studies•Foreign Languages & Literature•History•Literary Studies•Maps, Graphs & Charts•Medieval Studies•Middle Eastern Studies•Music History•Native American Studies•Photography•Political Science•Religious Studies•Renaissance Studies•Theater & Dance•Women’s StudiesPage 21

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• Granular access rights

• Image editing and annotation tools

NAVIGATING

PRIVACY ISSUES

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RELEVANCE FOR VISUAL RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS

– Project management & production– Support, training, consultation – Expertise– Collaboration– Visual literacy & instruction

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Thank you!Questions: caroline.caviness@artstor.org

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