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CONTENTdm for Art Teaching Images. The Rough Road in Reno. Glee Willis Digital Projects Librarian University of Nevada, Reno. Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion. Mason Cooley. This is the story of our political journey as we
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CONTENTdm for Art Teaching Images The Rough Road in Reno Glee Willis Digital Projects Librarian University of Nevada, Reno
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion. Mason Cooley This is the story of our political journey as we learned to build our art-architecture collections.
What Will I Cover? » Why CONTENTdm for art teaching images? » The “team effort” to build the collection (and, oh, by the way, end up with acceptable metadata) » Where and how we’ve stumbled along the way » What’s on the horizon?
Why CONTENTdm for art teaching images? » Started by considering more specialized tools for working with teaching images (MDID and Almagest) » Immersed myself in learning the “lingo” used by VRA folks » Coaxed Greg Zick into including more “classroom presentation tools” in CONTENTdm » Introduced UNR’s art history “ring leader” to MDID; Almagest’s code wasn’t ready for public release; ditto VAGA from U of Denver » Proceeded with CONTENTdm because we were already very familiar with its capabilities, whereas MDID was lacking in so many of them
The “team effort” » Glee contacted Ed Teague at the U of Oregon about his flattening of the VRA Core into the CONTENTdm VRA Template » Art history ring leader “stepped up” to formulate the data dictionary for our flattened VRA template » Glee worked with new media prof to load his images » Glee worked with the art history ring leader to load her images » Art history ring leader solicited permission from Gardner to load its art images into CONTENTdm as restricted items
CONTENTdm’s VRA Template Title.Variant:title:title Title.Translation:title Title.Series:publis:title Title.LargerEntity:contri:title RecordType:typea:type Type:typeb:type Measurements.Dimensions:date:format Measurements.Format:type:format Measurements.Resolution:format:format Material.Medium:identi:format Material.Support:source:format Technique:langua:format Creator.Role:relati:creato Creator.Attribution:covera:creato Creator.PersonalName:rights:creato Creator.CorporateName:creata:creato etc.
VRA Template Implementation Ed Teague’s Crosswalk – Our Starting Point
VRA Template Implementation UNR’s Field Properties
Where and how we have stumbled along the way » Mac owners didn’t want to “play well” with others » Slide libraries are “different” » Difficulty in assigning group permissions for entire classes » Understanding CONTENTdm’s approach to logging in to restricted collections » PowerPoint plug-in unable to handle JP2s » Expense of running the Acquisition Station on Macs for batch loads, edits, and item-level permissions assignments
What’s On The Horizon? » Finish loading Davis Art Images purchased to date » Train ceramics and book arts instructors to load their images » Incorporate more “bells and whistles” following Reed College’s lead; create geospatial access(?) » More “scrubbing” of the metadata for improved user access » Creation of “lecture sets” and “study sets” » Linking from online course syllabi
THANK YOU! Contact info:Glee WillisDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Nevada, Renowillis@unr.eduOur digital projects are at:http://contentdm.library.unr.edu