American Digital Imaging Project: A
grant-funded initiative to explore and assess innovative uses for images and text in teaching
and learning of American studies, in the context of electronic library
initiatives.
April 2002 - April 2005
Principal Investigator:
Danuta
Nitecki, Associate University Librarian for Reader Services
Project Manager:
Karen Reardon, Manager of Web, Workstation & Digital Consulting Services
Faculty interested in participating in similar projects should contact Danuta Nitecki.
Background
Documentation
Report
on Yale's Imaging America Grant
Revised
grant application
Submitted Grant Progress Reports
April - September 2002
September 2002 -
December 2003
December 2003 - December 2004
Grant-Supported Courses
Spring 2003
Fall 2003
Spring 2004
Fall 2004
Spring 2005
Example Team Service Contacts
Team Hungerford, Spring 2004
Team Hungerford, Fall 2004
Publications
A library and teaching center collaboration to assess the impact of using digital images on teaching, learning, and library support
Danuta A. Nitecki and William Rando
VINE, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2004 (Resource restricted to on-campus use)
Presentations
Yale Development Board, November 21, 2003
Electronic Library Initiative: evolving library support of teaching with digital content. Danuta Nitecki and Karen Reardon
Association of Yale Alumni Assembly LXIII: Yale's Museums, Libraries, and Collections. November 20, 2003
Danuta Nitecki and Karen Reardon
5th International Conference on
Performance Measures
Durham, UK, July 28, 2003
A Library and a Teaching Center Collaboration to Assess the Impact of
Using Digital Images on Teaching, Learning, and Library Support.
Danuta Nitecki, Associate University Librarian for Reader Services and Willam Rando, Director McDougal Graduate Teaching Center at Yale
Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, May 2003
Designing a library support infrastructure for the use of digital content for teaching. Danuta Nitecki, Associate University Librarian for Reader Services & Systems; Karen Reardon, Manager of Web & Workstation Services
Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
August 16, 2004
February 4, 2004
April 8, 2002
Six Working
Groups have been established to support the project:
1. Product
Design & Development
Continue design and implementation of Luna Insight in course
preparation, delivery of digital images in the classroom, and for students
to study images outside the classroom.
Digital
Library Cross-Collection Search
- Test and implement product enhancements including cross-collection
searching, management of A/V clips, multi-view and annotation.
- Coordinate creation and tracking of desired enhancement list with
Luna Imaging, Inc.
- Develop additional ways to help faculty manage and integrate their
own information sources/collections (personal collections).
Karen
Reardon, Chair
Brian Kupiec
Fred Martz
George Ouellette
2. Expand
Digital Collections
In order to collect and organize up to 100,000 digital images
over three years, insure images are appropriately identified, cataloged
and organized for course support.
- Create metadata standards for cataloging images.
- Evaluate and implement efficient production environment.
Joan Swanekamp, Chair
Nicole Bouche
Lenore Rouse
Matthew Beacom
Rebekah Irwin
Katherine Haskins
Guidelines for using Library Metadata Core Fields in Personal Insight
3. Software
Integration
Explore and evaluate integration of Insight with a variety
of packages used across the campus.
- Explore options for integration of images into classes.yale.edu.
- Develop additional ways to help faculty manage and integrate their
own information sources/collections (personal collections).
- Explore mechanisms to integrate access to museum and gallery collections.
- Explore integration with Library tools including SFX, MetaLib and
Orbis2.
Fred
Martz, Co-Chair
Karen
Reardon, Co-Chair
Kim Parker
Ed Kairiss
Brian Farnham
George Ouellette
Steve Yearl
