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Teaching with Digital Collections in the Humanities
Marianne Colgrove, Deputy CTOReed College
Image licensed from Saskia, Ltd. through Scholar’s Resource
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Slide projector
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slides
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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
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Project Goals
• Initial focus: Teaching with digital images in the arts & humanities
• Long-term goal: Teaching with digital materials across the curriculum
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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
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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”
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Four integrated elements
• Content (images & other materials)• Metadata• Web interfaces for finding & browsing• Tools for organizing and presenting
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Content for Teaching
• Licensed images• Faculty pics• Copystand images from books
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Image with metadata
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Browsing interface
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My Workspace
