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Teaching with Digital Collections in the Humanities. Marianne Colgrove, Deputy CTO Reed College. Image licensed from Saskia, Ltd. through Scholar’s Resource. Slide projector. slides. About the Digital Assets Management Project.
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Teaching with Digital Collections in the Humanities Marianne Colgrove, Deputy CTO Reed College Image licensed from Saskia, Ltd. through Scholar’s Resource
About the Digital Assets Management Project • Collaboration between IT, the library, and the visual resources collection • 3-year funding with grants from Keck and Booth-Ferris
Project Goals • Initial focus: Teaching with digital images in the arts & humanities • Long-term goal: Teaching with digital materials across the curriculum
Faculty Input • Copious high-quality content • Reliable searching (good data) • A “garden path” to course content • Web interfaces for quick browsing • Flexible in-class tools • Student access outside of class • How to analyze visual resources
The Humanities Challenge • Team-taught by faculty from art history, classics, history, literature, philosophy, political science, religion • Our challenge: to support image use for both expert and non-expert faculty as well as students • Images moving beyond “art days”
Four integrated elements • Content (images & other materials) • Metadata • Web interfaces for finding & browsing • Tools for organizing and presenting
Content for Teaching • Licensed images • Faculty pics • Copystand images from books