Reimagining Yale's Visual Resources Collection Using PixPlot, Tess Colwell, Catherine DeRose, and Lindsay King
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Reimagining Yale's Visual Resources Collection Using PixPlot, Tess Colwell, Catherine DeRose, and Lindsay King
- 1. Reimagining Yale's Visual Resources Collection Using PixPlot
- 2. About us 2 Tess Colwell Arts Librarian for Research Services Haas Arts Library Catherine DeRose Program Manager Yale Digital Humanities Lab Lindsay King Associate Director for Access Services Haas Arts Library
- 4. VRC at Yale Yale’s Visual Resources Collection began as a collection of slides and photographs used in more than six decades of teaching at Yale. It was housed in a separate physical space in Street Hall (now part of Yale University Art Gallery) until 2008, when staff and collections moved into the newly-created Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. 4
- 5. VRC Collection Collection details ◦ Over 370,000 slides (both lantern and 35 mm) and 180,000 mounted photographs and postcards ◦ Collections created by VRC staff, purchased, or donated over the years 5
- 6. VRC Collection Collection digitization ◦ In 2007, the slide collection was digitized and put online, later added to Yale Library’s digital collections ◦ Some images are close to the originals, many are farther removed ◦ Less interest now in the “collective collection” 6
- 8. Why a Rapid Prototyping Grant? Current course teaching with VRC 8
- 9. Collaboration with Yale’s DH Lab 9
- 10. VRC PixPlot 3 10
- 11. 11 Full VRC in PixPlot
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- 17. Initial observations ◦ Clusters of types of images ◦ Outliers ◦ New types of similarity 17
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- 23. Next Steps 4 23
- 24. Next Steps For the collection/project For others who want to try PixPlot For PixPlot itself 24
- 25. What can we learn from the images collected in Yale’s VRC over the years? What kinds of explorations might be possible with PixPlot? 25
- 26. Thank you for joining us! QUESTIONS? You can find us at: ◦ tess.colwell@yale.edu ◦ lindsay.king@yale.edu ◦ catherine.derose@yale.edu 26
Editor's Notes
- The history of this collection mirrors the development of many visual resources collections in the 20th century: from analog to digital, and from small operations within art history departments to image-related questions across campus and outside the university.
- Yale’s Visual Resources Collection includes more than 370,000 slides, both lantern and 35mm, and over 180,000 mounted photographs and postcards. The analog materials are now part of Arts Library Special Collections and can be requested and viewed in the reading room. The collections and their associated metadata are the result of work by countless staff over the years, as well as purchases and donations that have increased these numbers, including a recent large gift of born-digital images and analog slides from a longtime Yale faculty member.
- The 370,000 slides were digitized in 2007 and made available to the Yale community online. VRC staff reported to Information Technology Services at that point, though their offices were in the Arts Library. As at many other libraries, the images have been migrated to various systems over the years so that staff can maintain the metadata and faculty can access images for teaching. You can see the traces of the shift from analog to digital in the images as we see them today, which might be several generations removed from the original object: an original photograph of the art, reproduced in a book, photographed for a slide, then digitized. Meanwhile, more high-quality digital images become available all the time, and in many cases the individual VRC image is not the best or most useful. The value of that “collective collection” of teaching images that the VRC represented seems to be declining for individual faculty. However, we still think there’s a lot we can learn from this enormous collection of images and metadata when we view it on a larger scale and from a different perspective.
- Where did the inspiration for this project come from? Note about how the collection is valuable as a whole Note about lack of metadata for materials Anecdotal note about how students are currently using the collection (ie nick robbins class) Collection is not very accessible/usable as is
- Background on RPG process/collaboration with DH Lab
- Demo of prototype Point out facets/emphasize that images are clustered based on visual similarities (not metadata)--maybe compare the csv with the pixplot?
- Stay in PixPlot demo If time, ask for observations and suggestions via chat?
- Hats, ties, and Chuck Close!
- Domes and vaults
- Domes and Towers
- Mountains, painted and photographed
- Halos
- For the collection/project How others can take advantage of pixplot
- Discussion on how this is valuable, what questions might we be able to explore?