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Interoperability and UC's New Image Service. Maryly Snow (UCB) Margaret Hogarth (UCR) Image Service Roll-out & Advisory Committee (ISRAC). UCCSC, San Francisco, August 8, 2005. ISRAC. Image Service Rollout & Advisory Committee http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/israc/
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Interoperability and UC's New Image Service Maryly Snow (UCB) Margaret Hogarth (UCR) Image Service Roll-out & Advisory Committee (ISRAC) UCCSC, San Francisco, August 8, 2005
ISRAC Image Service Rollout & Advisory Committee http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/israc/ • Rosalie Lack, CDL • Maryly Snow, UCB • Dan Goldstein, UCD • Maureen Burns, UCI • Stephen Davison, UCLA • Emily Lin, UCM • Margaret Hogarth, UCR • Vickie O’Riordan, UCSD • Brian Warling, UCSF • Susan Moon, UCSB • Greg Careaga, UCSC
ISRAC Presentation Outline • Introduce UC Image Service • How it works • Interoperability issues • Q&A and suggestions
Image Service Collections • 326,000+ high resolution, zoom-able images • MOAC • Saskia • AMICA* • SPIRO: Arch + Arts + Places • LUCI • Hartill • David Ramsey Map Collection • Estate Virtual Collection (Project for Artists with Aids) • Farber Gravestone Collection • Hoover Institution Poster Collection • Japanese Historical Maps Collection • Tebtunis Papyri Collection
History/Background • Division of Library Automation (DLA) • Melvyl, 1977 • California Digital Library (CDL) • UCB Image DB Project, 1987 • SPIRO, 1994 • OAC, 1995 • MOAC, 1999 • VRTF, 2002 • Image Demonstrator Project, 2003 • UC Image Service, 2005
UC Image Service • University of California archives, libraries, museums, visual resources collections, and licensed collections • Federated search system • Presentation and image management capabilities • Enriches instruction and research opportunities
Image Service Benefits • Access any time, anywhere • Browsing and discovery • New ways of looking, organizing • Integrate text, images, and links • Multiple users • Export to PowerPoint and Blackboard
Pedagogical Benefits • Central delivery & coordination of visual teaching content • Shareable & accessible institutional image collections • Integrated personal image collections
Targeted Users • UC faculty, GSIs, TAs, researchers, students, and staff • Available NOW
For the Future • Luna Insight Web version • XML gateway • Searching all Insight collections • Searching all UC collections regardless of format (metasearch) • XML gateway issue • SPIRO will need to be migrated from UCB to CDL.
Image Service Content Development • California Digital Library (CDL) coordinates content of UC's Image Service, based on recommendations from the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSCSC) • Subject selectors of the University Libraries • Who are they? http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/selectors/summaryliaisontable.rtf
Academic Disciplines • Illustrates the arts, history, architecture, design, literature, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture, archaeology, geography, gender, ethnic, and area studies. • Future content in the sciences, music, film studies as available.
UCIS Technical Issues • Coordinate with systems: installation & tech support. • Authentication issues: 3 levels of access • Browser vs. java client interfaces • One-time java client download • File management
UC Image Service Web Site http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/
Other Issues • Training • Technical • Promotion • Intellectual Property
Conclusion • A piece of software can bring together librarians, visual resources curators, instructional technologists, and information technologist in a new decision-making process intended to support the pedagogical needs of faculty and students.
Contacts ISRAC Web site: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/israc/index.html UC Image Service http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/ Maryly Snow Architecture and Visual Resources Librarian, UCB maryly@berkeley.edu (510) 642-3439 Margaret Hogarth Electronic Resources Coordinator, UCR margaret.hogarth@ucr.edu (951) 827-2937