Rise is a web-based course creation software that is being considered as an alternative to Articulate Storyline. It has a more limited set of features than Storyline due to its templated nature. Rise courses can be distributed and tracked in the same way as Storyline by exporting them as SCORM packages for upload to a learning management system. While the feature set is more limited in Rise, it may allow for more cost-effective course administration and creation compared to using an external vendor for eLearning development.
The document provides recommendations for improving SlideShare's AWS content, including leveraging more PRO capabilities, improving categorization of AWS-specific content, integrating more social media, and highlighting AWS thought leadership. It also compares the engagement metrics of different SlideShare and Twitter accounts focused on AWS content.
The document discusses the selection and implementation of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) at Columbia College Chicago. A selection committee comprised of library staff evaluated discovery tools and selected EDS based on criteria like compatibility with existing systems and databases. Implementation involved customizing EDS, resolving issues like ebook display and multi-volume sets, and launching EDS in August 2011. 18 months later, database usage increased dramatically while full-text retrievals stayed consistent, and the library was satisfied with EDS and the minimal maintenance required.
The document compares two Drupal distributions, OpenScholar and OpenAcademy, that could be used to standardize faculty websites at SF State. OpenScholar is designed specifically for academic communities and includes features like smart publishing, content aggregation, and social collaboration. OpenAcademy is powered by Panopoly and offers a responsive framework, customizable drag-and-drop page building, and professional support. It lists the key differences between the two distributions in terms of version, themes, multisites, developers, features, purpose, users, and available content types. Performance tests show OpenScholar has better page execution times and memory usage than OpenAcademy.
Nicole Finzer presentation for the "Images Unleashed: Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Presentation in tribute to the reign of Empress Patti, VRAffle Queen at the annual VRA business meeting in 2011 at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference.
Anna Simon presentation for the "Inside Out: Examining Studio Artists' Perceptions, Presentations, Representations, and Actual Use in the Fine Arts Library" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint conference.
Rise is a web-based course creation software that is being considered as an alternative to Articulate Storyline. It has a more limited set of features than Storyline due to its templated nature. Rise courses can be distributed and tracked in the same way as Storyline by exporting them as SCORM packages for upload to a learning management system. While the feature set is more limited in Rise, it may allow for more cost-effective course administration and creation compared to using an external vendor for eLearning development.
The document provides recommendations for improving SlideShare's AWS content, including leveraging more PRO capabilities, improving categorization of AWS-specific content, integrating more social media, and highlighting AWS thought leadership. It also compares the engagement metrics of different SlideShare and Twitter accounts focused on AWS content.
The document discusses the selection and implementation of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) at Columbia College Chicago. A selection committee comprised of library staff evaluated discovery tools and selected EDS based on criteria like compatibility with existing systems and databases. Implementation involved customizing EDS, resolving issues like ebook display and multi-volume sets, and launching EDS in August 2011. 18 months later, database usage increased dramatically while full-text retrievals stayed consistent, and the library was satisfied with EDS and the minimal maintenance required.
The document compares two Drupal distributions, OpenScholar and OpenAcademy, that could be used to standardize faculty websites at SF State. OpenScholar is designed specifically for academic communities and includes features like smart publishing, content aggregation, and social collaboration. OpenAcademy is powered by Panopoly and offers a responsive framework, customizable drag-and-drop page building, and professional support. It lists the key differences between the two distributions in terms of version, themes, multisites, developers, features, purpose, users, and available content types. Performance tests show OpenScholar has better page execution times and memory usage than OpenAcademy.
Nicole Finzer presentation for the "Images Unleashed: Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Presentation in tribute to the reign of Empress Patti, VRAffle Queen at the annual VRA business meeting in 2011 at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference.
Anna Simon presentation for the "Inside Out: Examining Studio Artists' Perceptions, Presentations, Representations, and Actual Use in the Fine Arts Library" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint conference.
Presented by Howard Goldstein at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Session #4: Every Asset, Everywhere: Perspectives on Digital Asset Management
ORGANIZER / MODERATOR : Elisa Lanzi, Smith College
PRESENTERS:
Howard Goldstein, HR Goldstein Consulting, Digital Imaging Strategies
Elisa Lanzi, Smith College, Director of Digital Strategies and Services
Noah Richman, SRP Phoenix, Media Librarian
Are you hearing the terms “DAM, Digital Preservation, and Media Repositories” more and more at your institution? As our organizations increasingly depend on digital content for all areas of business, the need for enterprise-wide digital asset management is being expressed loud and clear. While cultural institutions are just beginning to implement systems for managing and preserving assets, other media communities (broadcasting, advertising, publishing, etc.) have broad experience in this area. This session brings together panelists for a multi-point perspective on DAM and its impact on the Visual Resources community. Topics include: Digital Asset Management systems demystified; Metadata, taxonomy and DAM; and Digital Preservation. In addition, an open dialogue on VR and organizational change with DAM will be moderated by Lanzi.
The American Numismatic Society (ANS) migrated their library catalog from a custom system to the open-source Koha system with the help of internal staff, external IT support, and the Koha user community. The goals of the migration were to enable more accurate and flexible searches, display search results more quickly, and make the catalog more user-friendly. The migration process from fall 2009 to spring 2010 involved addressing initial problems with data conversion and customizing Koha to accommodate the ANS library's needs, such as indexing articles and displaying publication information.
Susanne Javorski presentation for the "How do we shelve it? The place for Vendor-provided electronic titles in art and architecture collections" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The Center for Faculty Innovation and Center for Instructional Technology at James Madison University have collaborated successfully on several faculty development initiatives. These include an annual January Symposium with scholarship and research opportunities before the spring semester begins, and a May Symposium with opportunities after graduation. They have also partnered on teaching institutes, technology conferences, and classroom support services. Going forward, they aim to complete migrating the MDID digital resource platform to a new version and continue building collaborations within the university and open source community.
This document discusses the history of the Hohokam people and water management in the Salt River Valley, the formation of the Salt River Project utility company, and the efforts of an audiovisual librarian to bring order to the company's photography collection. It describes implementing workflows to ingest digital assets, formalizing a taxonomy to organize the collection, and centralizing assets that had been stored in various locations. The librarian developed the taxonomy through research, discussions with end users, and revisions to create a structured system for searching and finding photos within the utility's collection.
Virginia Allison presentation for the "Images Unleashed: Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The document discusses the convergence of libraries, archives, museums, and special collections (LAMs) at the University of Calgary. It outlines the vision for integrated LAM services, the co-location of resources in the new Taylor Family Digital Library, and the development of centralized metadata and user services provided jointly by archivists, librarians, and curators. Key aspects of convergence include a unified search system, centralized metadata services, and a combined research support model that draws on the unique expertise and resources of each LAM area.
The document announces a Members and Awards Dinner to take place on March 13, 2014. It lists several award recipients, including Angie Yip who received the VRAF Internship Award for 2013-2014, and Ann Baird Whiteside and Nancy DeLaurier who both received the Nancy DeLaurier Award, with Ann Baird Whiteside receiving the award for 2014. Virginia M.G. (Macie) Hall is announced as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for 2014, with details provided on her career and contributions to the field.
A North Carolina Connecting to Collections (C2C) workshop co-taught by Audra Eagle Yun (WFU), Nicholas Graham (UNC), and Lisa Gregory (State Archives of NC). This workshop took place on June 13, 2011 in Wilson, NC.
Emerging technologies in academic libraries. A department by department overview. Data visualization, online reference, nextGen library platforms, open source software, digital asset and archive management systems, digital humanities, scientific and creative software, new physical spaces for libraries.
The document provides an introduction to web archiving, explaining that it involves collecting, managing, and preserving web resources in a format like WARC files so they can be accessed over time independently of the original. It discusses why web archiving is important, noting that online content is at risk of being lost and web archives allow representing experiences from the 21st century. The document then outlines the multi-step process of web archiving including collection development, selection, harvesting, description, access, and long-term preservation.
The Archives Hub is an online aggregator of archival collection descriptions from over 200 UK repositories. It contains over 25,000 collection level descriptions and 100,000 lower level entries. This document provides an overview of the Archives Hub service, how to use the EAD Editor to create and edit archival finding aids, and exporting descriptions from other systems into the Archives Hub's EAD format.
This document describes the development of a digital library system for a university. The system allows students and faculty to search for and access books over the internet. It involved planning, analyzing requirements, designing databases and forms, and implementing the system using Microsoft technologies. The system stores book and user information and allows searching by title or author. The digital library has the benefits of low cost and large storage capacity compared to a traditional library. Future work may include publishing the system on the university website and adding SMS notifications of new books.
In 2015, I created a web archiving fundamentals course for the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) program. This is a portion of the slide deck I used for that course.
Creating An Ideal Image Library Website And Databasebecky bristol
The document discusses considerations for developing an ideal image library website and database. It addresses establishing standards for cataloguing images, understanding user needs, developing content management systems, and providing services to users. Standards need to be created for image descriptions, indexing, and controlled vocabularies. The needs, search methods, and criteria of users must be understood. Content management involves classification, representation of images, and integration with search tools. Services could include tutorials, editing tools, and forms to purchase or license image usage rights.
Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projectslibrarianrafia
Digital Frontiers 2015 https://digital-frontiers.org/ Presentation on Omeka 9/18/2015
Presenters: Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, and Derek Reece (Digital Projects Librarians) and Rafia Mirza (Digital Humanities Librarian)
Darin Briskman, Amazon Web Services delivers a keynote at the Canadian Executive Cloud & DevOps Summit in Toronto on June 9, 2017 on the topic of Artificial Intelligence.
IWMW 2002: Portals and CMS:" Why You Need Them BothIWMW
Plenary talk on “Portals and CMS:" Why You Need Them Both” given by Paul Browning at the IWMW 2002 event.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/sessions.html#talk-browning
The document describes the Archives Hub EAD Editor, which allows 200 contributing institutions to create standardized encoded archival description (EAD) records. It addresses challenges like different standards and expertise levels. The editor provides functionality to easily add links from EAD records to digital archival objects like images and files. This enhances discovery of archival collections while maintaining interoperability. Issues include display limitations and ensuring persistent links, but contributors are excited to include more digital content.
Presented by Howard Goldstein at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Session #4: Every Asset, Everywhere: Perspectives on Digital Asset Management
ORGANIZER / MODERATOR : Elisa Lanzi, Smith College
PRESENTERS:
Howard Goldstein, HR Goldstein Consulting, Digital Imaging Strategies
Elisa Lanzi, Smith College, Director of Digital Strategies and Services
Noah Richman, SRP Phoenix, Media Librarian
Are you hearing the terms “DAM, Digital Preservation, and Media Repositories” more and more at your institution? As our organizations increasingly depend on digital content for all areas of business, the need for enterprise-wide digital asset management is being expressed loud and clear. While cultural institutions are just beginning to implement systems for managing and preserving assets, other media communities (broadcasting, advertising, publishing, etc.) have broad experience in this area. This session brings together panelists for a multi-point perspective on DAM and its impact on the Visual Resources community. Topics include: Digital Asset Management systems demystified; Metadata, taxonomy and DAM; and Digital Preservation. In addition, an open dialogue on VR and organizational change with DAM will be moderated by Lanzi.
The American Numismatic Society (ANS) migrated their library catalog from a custom system to the open-source Koha system with the help of internal staff, external IT support, and the Koha user community. The goals of the migration were to enable more accurate and flexible searches, display search results more quickly, and make the catalog more user-friendly. The migration process from fall 2009 to spring 2010 involved addressing initial problems with data conversion and customizing Koha to accommodate the ANS library's needs, such as indexing articles and displaying publication information.
Susanne Javorski presentation for the "How do we shelve it? The place for Vendor-provided electronic titles in art and architecture collections" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The Center for Faculty Innovation and Center for Instructional Technology at James Madison University have collaborated successfully on several faculty development initiatives. These include an annual January Symposium with scholarship and research opportunities before the spring semester begins, and a May Symposium with opportunities after graduation. They have also partnered on teaching institutes, technology conferences, and classroom support services. Going forward, they aim to complete migrating the MDID digital resource platform to a new version and continue building collaborations within the university and open source community.
This document discusses the history of the Hohokam people and water management in the Salt River Valley, the formation of the Salt River Project utility company, and the efforts of an audiovisual librarian to bring order to the company's photography collection. It describes implementing workflows to ingest digital assets, formalizing a taxonomy to organize the collection, and centralizing assets that had been stored in various locations. The librarian developed the taxonomy through research, discussions with end users, and revisions to create a structured system for searching and finding photos within the utility's collection.
Virginia Allison presentation for the "Images Unleashed: Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The document discusses the convergence of libraries, archives, museums, and special collections (LAMs) at the University of Calgary. It outlines the vision for integrated LAM services, the co-location of resources in the new Taylor Family Digital Library, and the development of centralized metadata and user services provided jointly by archivists, librarians, and curators. Key aspects of convergence include a unified search system, centralized metadata services, and a combined research support model that draws on the unique expertise and resources of each LAM area.
The document announces a Members and Awards Dinner to take place on March 13, 2014. It lists several award recipients, including Angie Yip who received the VRAF Internship Award for 2013-2014, and Ann Baird Whiteside and Nancy DeLaurier who both received the Nancy DeLaurier Award, with Ann Baird Whiteside receiving the award for 2014. Virginia M.G. (Macie) Hall is announced as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for 2014, with details provided on her career and contributions to the field.
A North Carolina Connecting to Collections (C2C) workshop co-taught by Audra Eagle Yun (WFU), Nicholas Graham (UNC), and Lisa Gregory (State Archives of NC). This workshop took place on June 13, 2011 in Wilson, NC.
Emerging technologies in academic libraries. A department by department overview. Data visualization, online reference, nextGen library platforms, open source software, digital asset and archive management systems, digital humanities, scientific and creative software, new physical spaces for libraries.
The document provides an introduction to web archiving, explaining that it involves collecting, managing, and preserving web resources in a format like WARC files so they can be accessed over time independently of the original. It discusses why web archiving is important, noting that online content is at risk of being lost and web archives allow representing experiences from the 21st century. The document then outlines the multi-step process of web archiving including collection development, selection, harvesting, description, access, and long-term preservation.
The Archives Hub is an online aggregator of archival collection descriptions from over 200 UK repositories. It contains over 25,000 collection level descriptions and 100,000 lower level entries. This document provides an overview of the Archives Hub service, how to use the EAD Editor to create and edit archival finding aids, and exporting descriptions from other systems into the Archives Hub's EAD format.
This document describes the development of a digital library system for a university. The system allows students and faculty to search for and access books over the internet. It involved planning, analyzing requirements, designing databases and forms, and implementing the system using Microsoft technologies. The system stores book and user information and allows searching by title or author. The digital library has the benefits of low cost and large storage capacity compared to a traditional library. Future work may include publishing the system on the university website and adding SMS notifications of new books.
In 2015, I created a web archiving fundamentals course for the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) program. This is a portion of the slide deck I used for that course.
Creating An Ideal Image Library Website And Databasebecky bristol
The document discusses considerations for developing an ideal image library website and database. It addresses establishing standards for cataloguing images, understanding user needs, developing content management systems, and providing services to users. Standards need to be created for image descriptions, indexing, and controlled vocabularies. The needs, search methods, and criteria of users must be understood. Content management involves classification, representation of images, and integration with search tools. Services could include tutorials, editing tools, and forms to purchase or license image usage rights.
Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projectslibrarianrafia
Digital Frontiers 2015 https://digital-frontiers.org/ Presentation on Omeka 9/18/2015
Presenters: Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, and Derek Reece (Digital Projects Librarians) and Rafia Mirza (Digital Humanities Librarian)
Darin Briskman, Amazon Web Services delivers a keynote at the Canadian Executive Cloud & DevOps Summit in Toronto on June 9, 2017 on the topic of Artificial Intelligence.
IWMW 2002: Portals and CMS:" Why You Need Them BothIWMW
Plenary talk on “Portals and CMS:" Why You Need Them Both” given by Paul Browning at the IWMW 2002 event.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/sessions.html#talk-browning
The document describes the Archives Hub EAD Editor, which allows 200 contributing institutions to create standardized encoded archival description (EAD) records. It addresses challenges like different standards and expertise levels. The editor provides functionality to easily add links from EAD records to digital archival objects like images and files. This enhances discovery of archival collections while maintaining interoperability. Issues include display limitations and ensuring persistent links, but contributors are excited to include more digital content.
The document discusses importing data into a Neo4j graph database. It provides examples of using Cypher statements, LOAD CSV, APOC procedures, and calling APIs to import nodes and relationships representing movies, characters, and their connections from Lord of the Rings. It also discusses visualizing and querying the graph data once imported.
WPF Unleashed: Building Application with Visual Studio 2008 SP1Dave Bost
Dave Bost discusses new features and improvements in .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Key additions include the Entity Framework for modeling and accessing data, ASP.NET Dynamic Data for quickly generating data-driven websites, and ASP.NET Routing for URL routing. He demonstrates creating an application that uses these technologies to access and present data.
Matapihi 'The National Digital Project'. The University of Auckland Library P...Rose Holley
The document summarizes the University of Auckland Library's experience participating as a partner in the Matapihi digital library project led by the National Library of New Zealand. Some key points:
- Matapihi aims to provide access to over 75,000 digitized resources from various partners, mostly images and historical materials from New Zealand.
- The University contributed over 5,000 records from its anthropology, archaeology, and architecture collections. This required mapping metadata fields and preparing records in a specific XML format.
- The University learned about the technical requirements, such as creating thumbnails and documenting data for future updates. Internal processes also needed adjustments to support public access to the digital resources.
- While the
This document provides guidance on building a digital archive using free or low-cost tools. It recommends using Internet Archive for unlimited file hosting and LibGuides for a centralized access point. Specific steps are outlined for setting up a collection on Internet Archive, adding files, and publishing the archive through LibGuides. Budget, reliability, and ease of use of Internet Archive are also discussed.
Strategies for Data Migration in the Age of CCO and VRA Core 4.0
Presented at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, March 30th, 2007
Billy Kwan, Associate Museum Librarian/Systems, Image Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This document contains the agenda for the Kansas City DevOps Meetup on December 5, 2012. The agenda includes presentations on Google Fiberspace and DevOps logistics by Aaron from Cerner and Stathy from OpsCode. It also discusses deciding on topics and volunteers for future meetups, with suggestions like infrastructure as code, continuous deployment, and experience sharing.
The document discusses setting up a digital library using DSpace to digitize and share the college's resources. DSpace is presented as a solution to questions around how to provide access to materials like previous projects, seminars, journals, teaching materials, question banks, cultural events, and more. It allows different file formats to be captured and distributed online with search capabilities. Implementing DSpace involves hardware, software, and support from HP to build the repository and allow students and faculty to access educational resources digitally.
VRA 2023 Collections Management in Fashion and Media session. Presenter: Wen Nie Ng
The goal of the paper is to enhance the metadata standard of fashion collections by expanding the controlled vocabulary and metadata elements for Costume Core, a metadata schema designed specifically for fashion artifacts. Various techniques are employed to achieve this goal, including identifying new descriptors using word embedding similarity measurements and adding new descriptive terms for precise artifact descriptions to use when re-cataloging a university fashion collection in Costume Core. The paper also provides a sneak peek of the Model Output Confirmative Helper Application, which simplifies the vocabulary review process. Additionally, a survey was conducted to collect insights into how other fashion professionals use metadata when describing dress artifacts. The survey results reveal 1) commonly used metadata standards in the historic fashion domain; 2) sample metadata respondents use; and 3) partial potential metadata that can be appended to Costume Core, which is relevant to Virginia Tech's Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection. The expanded Costume Core resulting from the project offers a more comprehensive way of describing fashion collection holdings/artifacts. It has the potential to be adopted by the fashion collections to produce metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
VRA 2023 Adventures in Critical Cataloging session. Presenters: Sara Schumacher and Millicent Fullmer
This paper will cover the results of a research study looking at visual resources professionals' perceptions of the visual canon at their institutions and their actions confronting biases in their visual collections. This research is innovative because the "visual canon" as a concept is often evoked but rarely defined, and there has not been research into perceptions and practices that span different types of cultural heritage institutions. The researchers seek to focus on the role of the visual resources professional as a potential change-maker in confronting bias and transforming the “visual canon.” In our presentation, we will discuss the analysis of our survey and interviews around three key research questions: What barriers do visual resources professionals perceive in remedying the biases in the visual canon? What authorities, past and present, do they identify in shaping the visual canon? How do they approach teaching users to identify and critically confront these issues? We will highlight trends as well as unique concerns and solutions from our research participants and engage our audience with how these issues impact their own collections, policies, and instruction.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: John J. Taormina
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project collects historic images of the medieval monuments of South Italy, from the so-called Kingdom of Sicily dating from c. 950 to c. 1430, during the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin, and early Aragonese periods. The project was begun in 2011, as part of a 3-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under project investigators Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University, and William Tronzo, University of California, San Diego.
The site features over 8,000 historical images in a range of media, including drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs, and plans and elevations culled from museums, archives, and libraries in Europe and America, often from the Grand Tour, as well as from available publications. The value of the database lies in making accessible to scholars the visual documentation of changes to historical sites because the medieval monuments of South Italy have been damaged, changed, and restored on many occasions, with tombs and liturgical furnishings often destroyed, dismantled, or removed. In fact, many of the 600 monuments no longer exist, often bombed during World War II or destroyed in earthquakes, or obscured by modern buildings and urban sprawl.
VRA 2023 Archives Tools and Techniques session. Presenters: Maureen Burns and Lavinia Ciuffa
The Ernest Nash collection documents ancient Roman architecture in pre- and post-World War II Italy. What made Nash's work significant, beyond capturing the present state of the ancient Roman monuments at a volatile historical moment, was the primacy of the topographical photography and the systematic order he brought to this subject. The American Academy's Photographic Archive contributed Nash's images to an open access, interactive website called the "Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome." It reveals the city in stunning detail and uses geo-referencing to provide the viewer with a better understanding of the overall contextual and spatial logic. These Nash images and metadata are also IIIF compatible. As the Academy continues to digitize and describe the full collection of about 30,000 images, thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation, a new partnership has developed with Archivision and vrcHost. Current high quality digital photographs of the same ancient Roman monuments are being added to compare with the historical images documenting architectural changes--whether conserved, restored, altered, reconstructed, re-sited or destroyed. This presentation will provide a progress report about what it takes to move new digital photography into IIIF and the various tools available for close examination and presentation. Finding ways to provide ready access and juxtapose historic and contemporary photography online, builds upon the legacy of Nash's quality curation and scholarship to create 21st century, accessible, online educational resources of great interest and utility to scholars, students, and a wide audience of ancient Roman enthusiasts.
VRA 2023 Exploring 3D Technologies in the Classroom session. Presenter: Amy McKenna
Amy McKenna (Williams College) discusses her project that uses Photoshop and cardboard 3D glasses to recreate the 19th-century spectacle of a historic glass stereo collection.
VRA 2023 Keynote. Presenter: Melissa Gohlke
A historical record that focuses on white, heteronormative society and events obscures many facets of San Antonio history. Peel back the veneer of normalcy and one can find rich, diverse, and unexpected strands of the city’s past. From female impersonators of the early 1900s to queer life in derelict spaces during the 1960s and finally, gay and lesbian bar culture of the1970s and beyond, the hidden threads of San Antonio’s history reveal themselves. In this presentation, LGBTQ Historian Melissa Gohlke explores these hidden histories and stitches together an alternative interpretation of the city’s historical narrative by examining a wealth of primary sources found in archives and personal collections.
About the speaker:
Melissa Gohlke is an urban historian who specializes in San Antonio LGBTQ+ history. For over a decade, Gohlke has been researching queer history in San Antonio and South Texas and sharing her passion for this history through extensive outreach activities such as presentations, media interactions, exhibits, and written work. Gohlke is the Assistant Archivist for UTSA Libraries Special Collections.
About the VRA:
The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: Mark Pompelia
Material Order is an academic consortium of material sample collections (including wood, metal, glass, ceramic, polymers, plastics, textiles, bio-materials, etc.—any material that might be used in or considered for art, architecture, and design disciplines) founded by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design and now comprising several more institutions in the US. It provides a community-based approach to management and access to material collections utilizing and developing standards and best practices. Material Order created the Materials Profile that serves as a shared cataloging tool on the LYRASIS CollectionSpace platform and can be further developed as the different needs of consortium members are identified. Open Web searching across all collections occurs via a front-end discovery portal built with Wordpress at materialorder.org.
The Material Order project was born from the acknowledgment that resource sharing and collaborative catalogs are the most promising approach to exploration and implementation. It was always the intent, now actualized, for partner institutions with different mission and scope to compel the project to consider and accommodate criteria such as material health ecologies, fabrication possibilities, and overlap into adjacent fields such as engineering and archeology. Thus, Material Order represents not just items on a shelf but a knowledge-base of compositions, uses, forms, and properties. No longer in its infancy, Material Order provides a shared and adaptable framework for managing collections across the consortium and optimal facilitation of materials-based research and exploration for art, architecture, and design applications.
VRA 2023 New Frontiers in Visual Resources session. Presenters: Meghan Rubenstein and Kate Leonard
The Art Department at Colorado College is piloting a Personal Archiving program in select undergraduate studio courses that combines visual and digital literacy instruction with personal reflection and professional development. Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, and Kate Leonard, Professor of Art, will discuss the drive behind this initiative to develop student competencies within a liberal arts setting. We will share our ongoing iterative process as well as select student activities and learning outcomes that may be adopted to various institutions.
VRA 2022 Teaching Visual Literacy session. Presenter: Molly Schoen
Our everyday lives are more saturated in images and videos than any other time in human history. This fact alone underscores the need to implement visual literacy skills in all stages of education, from pre-K to post-grad. Learning how to read images with critical, analytical eyes is crucial to understanding the world around us as we see it represented in the news, social media, advertisements, etc. New technologies have exasperated this already urgent need for visual literacy education. Synthetic media, deepfakes, APIs, bot farms, and other forms of artificial intelligence have many innovative uses, but bad actors also use them to fan the flames of disinformation. We have seen the grave consequences from this age of disinformation, from undermining elections to attempts to delegitimize science and doctors, undoubtedly raising the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. What do we need to know about these new forms of altered images made by artificial intelligence? How do we discern between real, human-made content versus fakes made by computers, which are becoming more and more difficult to discern? This paper aims to raise awareness of how new forms of visual media can manipulate and deceive the viewer. Audience participants will learn how to empower themselves and their peers into being more savvy consumers of visual materials by understanding the basics of AI and recognizing the characteristics of faked media.
VRA 2022 Individual Papers Session. Presenter: Malia Van Heukelem
This case study of a large artist archive at a medium sized academic research library will connect the success of the artist serving as his own archivist and the collection's broad research appeal locally, nationally and internationally. Like many artists, there is so much more than his own work represented. There is correspondence, fine art prints, ephemera of other artists and writers hidden in the collection. The foundation of organization is in place; now the focus is on creating online access points through finding aids and image collections. The presentation will explore the use of ArchivesSpace, Omeka, and other software to increase access. It will also demonstrate how a solo archivist can leverage interns, student assistants, and volunteers for collections management projects that benefit both the institutional priorities and desired learning outcomes. This talk will delve into the challenges of 20th century visual resource collections such as copyright and engagement with donors. Featuring a local artist has brought other art and architecture collections to the library, without clear boundaries which has led to questions of sustainability, who and what is collected. There is definitely a need to balance the historical record and yet, there are already more archival collections accessioned than can be responsibly managed by one person. The primary collection does include works by women and artists of color, yet much descriptive work remains to forefront the diversity contained within. As an archivist and librarian at a public university, there are many competing demands for collections management, support of researchers, and instruction plus the added interest for exhibition loans and the desire for other artists and architects to be represented. This artist archive is both interesting and complex.
This document summarizes an art history course titled "Pattern & Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History" taught at Oklahoma State University. The course examines major developments in American art across different media from European contact through the mid-20th century. As part of the course, students are divided into groups to create digital exhibitions cataloging artworks from university newspaper archives between certain years. Students must include contextual information and link their entries to related articles. Their entries and a reflective essay are graded individually based on their work plan. The course introduces the concept of "critical cataloging" to bring social justice perspectives to archival and metadata work.
VRA 2022 session. Organizer/Moderator: Allan T. Kohl. Speakers: Virginia (Macie) Hall, Christina Updike, Marcia Focht, Rebecca Moss, Steven Kowalik, Jenni Rodda
During the past year, the “Great Resignation” (aka. The “Big Quit”) has roiled the world of employment nationwide in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused job losses among our membership. While many institutions and individuals now hope for a “return to normal,” others anticipate that the past two years mark a watershed necessitating further transformational changes in the years ahead. These larger employment trends have come on top of quantum shifts in the visual resources field itself, as traditional tasks give way to new responsibilities, and siloed image collections are replaced by interdisciplinary projects.
For several years, our annual conferences have featured the perspectives of newer professionals in “Stories from the Start.” Looking at the opposite ends of their career arcs, this session brings together the perspectives and experiences of two pre-pandemic retirees, two of our members who made their decisions to retire during the past year, and two currently active professionals whose retirements are pending in the near future. When and why did they make their decisions to retire? What was/is the actual process? Concerns? What comes next after we leave our offices for the last time?
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenters: Melissa Becher and Samuel Sadow
In 2019, the art history program at American University gave its masters students a new option for the capstone project that is the culmination of the degree: create a digital project on an art historical topic using Omeka S or Wordpress. Initially, only a single student chose to complete a digital capstone over a traditional thesis, but within two years there was near parity between the two options, meaning seven digital capstones for the 2021 cohort. To support these projects, a close partnership quickly developed between the University’s library, the visual resources center, and the archives. This session covers how three campus units coordinate that support for these innovative digital humanities projects, including administration of the platforms, instruction, technical support, preservation, and access to the final projects. The session will also showcase examples of student work to demonstrate the variety and creativity of projects that can be accomplished using these platforms, as well as their contributions to the field of art history. The outcome of this initiative is clear: the best of digital humanities, weaving design and technology with rigorous art historical research, and finished projects that have already resulted in successful job applications in the field.
VRA 2022 Material Objects and Special Collections session. Presenters: Allan T. Kohl and Jackie Spafford
Materials-based collections represent a challenging new mode of information management in terms of subject specialization, physical description and accommodation, and institutional mission. Building upon the successful introductory meeting of this Group in Los Angeles at the 2019 Conference, the goal of this SIG is to provide a forum for open discussion of Material and Object Collections and their relationship to various library/visual resources tasks. The Material and Object Collections SIG provides an opportunity for individuals working with a variety of materials and objects collections – including those that support art and art history courses, those that support architecture and design courses, and those in cultural heritage organizations – to share ideas, issues, and potential solutions in regard to tasks similar to common library/visual resources activities (including cataloging, documentation, staffing, outreach), as well as more specialized concerns relating to the management of physical objects (security, storage and retrieval, the design of user spaces, etc.).
By continuing to offer an opportunity for participants to share brief introductions and profiles of their collections, we hope to encourage networking and exchange information about sources for specialized items; to display sample items and share surplus samples with other collections; and to provide examples of successful solutions to typical problems. Our long-range goal is to maintain an ongoing support group that can be of particular benefit to those professionals who are in the beginning stages of building or organizing physical collections.
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Moderator: Otto Luna
Exploration of visualization tools in the Digital Humanities/Digital Art History realm. Presenter: Catherine Adams
Assessing the use of Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) by Art Historians and Archaeologists. Presenter: Kayla Olson
Supporting Art History Students’ Digital Projects at American University. Presenters: Samuel Sadow and Melissa Becher
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenter: Kayla Olson
This paper discusses a study (completed in the spring of 2021) which explores how common the use of Qualitative Data Analysis software (QDAS) is among two kinds of object-based researchers: art historians and archaeologists. Surveys were disseminated in a snowball fashion and contained open and closed questions. The questions sought to give participants a platform to describe if, why, and how they use programs like Atlas.ti, NVivo, Dedoose, and MAXQDA throughout their research process. While not QDAS, the image management application Tropy was also included. The author hopes that the anonymized responses will prompt discussion among professionals in academic librarianship and visual resources management about the possible impact of these digital tools on researchers in these disciplines. The question remains on whether researchers in art and material culture disciplines would benefit more from QDAS if participants were aware of: 1) Their existence and 2) Their ability to help organize artifact data and to assist in performing image-based analysis.
VRA 2022 Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice session. Presenter: Ann M. Graf, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
In the field of information science, we strive to provide access to information through the most efficient means possible. This is often done through the use of controlled vocabularies for description of subjects, and, in the case of art objects, for the identification of styles, processes, materials, and types. My research has examined the sufficiency of controlled vocabularies such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) for description of graffiti art processes and products. This research is evolving as the AAT is responding to warrant for a broader set of terms to represent outsider art communities such as the graffiti art community. The methods used to study terminological warrant by examining the language of the graffiti art community are helpful to give voice to artists who work outside the traditional art institution, allowing the way that they talk about their work and how they describe it to become part of the common discourse. It is hoped that this research will inspire others who design and supplement controlled vocabularies for use in the arts to give priority in descriptive practice to those who have been historically underrepresented or made invisible by default use of terminology that does not speak to their experiences.
VRA 2022 Session. Presenter: Douglas Peterson
In 2021, the National Archives of Estonia engaged Digital Transitions’ Service division, Pixel Acuity, to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to analyze part of its historic record. The objective was to use this tool to enhance their collection with descriptive metadata that identified persons of interest in a collection of over 8,000 photographic glass plate negatives, a task that would ordinarily take years of human labor. In this presentation, we discuss our approach to accurately detecting and identifying human subjects in transmissive media, our initial findings using commercially available AI models, and the subsequent refinements made to our workflow to generate the most accurate metadata. In addition to working with commercially available AI models, we developed strategies for validation of AI-generated results without additional human supervision, and explored the benefits of building bespoke, heritage-specific AI models. By combining all of these tools, we developed a highly customized solution that greatly expedited accurate metadata generation with minimal human oversight, operated efficiently on large collections, and supported discovery of novel content within the archive.
VRA 2022 Community Building Session. Presenter: Dacia Metes
Queens Memory is an ongoing community archiving program that engages with our local communities in our two-fold mission to (1) push local history collections out to the public through programming and online resources, and (2) pull new materials into our collections from the diverse communities of Queens, NYC. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to close our buildings, cease all in-person work and programming and shift our work to the virtual world. Our team quickly modified our processing workflow and asset tracking with the high volume of crowd-sourced donations coming through new online submission forms, set up in a rapid response to capture the stories coming from the pandemic’s first epicenter in the U.S. In my proposed conference session, I will discuss how we planned and managed the shift to fully online collection development. I will talk about our virtual outreach efforts to engage with the community and get them to contribute their materials, and how we developed the online tools and processes that allowed us to collect photographs, oral history interviews and other audio/visual materials, while also capturing the necessary metadata and consent forms. New internal communications channels, roles for volunteers, and triage processing for publication resulted from these efforts and are now essential parts of the team’s practices.
The document summarizes a workshop on accessibility guidance for digital cultural heritage collections. The workshop consists of two hours which include presentations on accessibility requirements and workflow strategies, a breakout activity where participants practice creating accessible descriptions for images, and a wrap-up discussion. The presentations cover topics such as common barriers to accessibility, guidelines for making images, video, audio and documents accessible, and best practices for incorporating accessibility into workflows. The breakout activity has participants work in groups to write alt-text and accessibility descriptions for sample images from online collections.
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Information and Communication Technology in EducationMJDuyan
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Students will be able to explain the role and impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. They will understand how ICT tools, such as computers, the internet, and educational software, enhance learning and teaching processes. By exploring various ICT applications, students will recognize how these technologies facilitate access to information, improve communication, support collaboration, and enable personalized learning experiences.
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