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Teaching with Digital Collections in the Humanities

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

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  1. Teaching with Digital Collections in the Humanities Marianne Colgrove, Deputy CTO Reed College Image licensed from Saskia, Ltd. through Scholar’s Resource

  2. Slide projector

  3. slides

  4. 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

  5. Project Goals • Initial focus: Teaching with digital images in the arts & humanities • Long-term goal: Teaching with digital materials across the curriculum

  6. 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

  7. 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”

  8. Four integrated elements • Content (images & other materials) • Metadata • Web interfaces for finding & browsing • Tools for organizing and presenting

  9. Content for Teaching • Licensed images • Faculty pics • Copystand images from books

  10. Image with metadata

  11. Browsing interface

  12. My Workspace

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