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About the Digital Assets Management

Project

• Collaboration between instructional designers, information technologists, librarians, and visual resources professionals

• 3-year funding with grants from Keck and Booth-Ferris

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Goals of the Project

• Continued goal: Create digital collections for college students, faculty, and staff

• Initial focus: Teaching with digital images in the arts & humanities

• Future goals: Teaching with digital materials across the curriculum

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Content for Teaching• Licensed image collections: Saskia & Archivision

• Collections from legacy systems, including digital images converted from our slide collections

• Copystand images on request

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The Humanities Challenge

• “Hum 110” is required of all first-year students

• 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

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Modifications to CONTENTdm

• Custom browser interface• Custom metadata creation to enhance findability

• Subject cataloguing by:– Lectures– Topics– Era– Geographic Region– Artifacts

• Image viewer with pan and zoom capabilities

• Study Guides

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Modifications to CONTENTdm:

Browser Interface

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Modifications to CONTENTdm:Metadata Modifications to Enhance

Findability

• Most images came with metadata, but it was inconsistent

• Expert faculty, non-expert faculty, and students need to be able to find images in different ways

• Some metadata depends on what the image is; some depends on how the image is used in teaching

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Modifications to CONTENTdm:

Metadata Modifications to Enhance Findability

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Modifications to CONTENTdm:Metadata Modifications to Enhance

Findability

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Modifications to CONTENTdm:Item Viewer

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Modifications to CONTENTdm:Item Viewer

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Modifications to CONTENTdm: Item Viewer

Workstations

Slideshow and My Workspace

• My Workspace– Sort, delete, and add images in Lightbox and Folder tree

– Easy drag-and-drop capability– Create, copy, and share galleries between users

• Slideshow– Preview slides in optional thumbnail viewer

– Options to display metadata– Download images individually or as a batch

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Help Pages and Video

• Learn more about CONTENTdm and My Workspace at the online help pages:

http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/help.php

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Faculty & student feedback

• Faculty survey

• Student focus groups

"I think it is fantastic--far and away the best visual materials we have had"

"I feel confident about my actual ability to use the system…I've also found that its ease of use has encouraged me just to browse the slides more…I am, in short, quite happy with the system."

"Excellent easy access for showing students images in class, for which I'm very grateful."

"The zoom feature is really helpful for viewing details in class...it's also nice when there are multiple shots of something in the database, like the Primaporta, so you can see all different angles."

"The lecture image sets in CONTENTdm were linked from the online course syllabus. I liked how handy it was to access the images outside of class."

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Challenges / Future Goals

• More images, all the time• More collaboration, all the time

– Increase dialogue between faculty and digital asset management team to raise awareness and facilitate use across the curriculum

• Big, beautiful side-by-side slide shows that can advance separately, within the same browser window

• Adding audio and video

Custom Collectionspowered by CONTENTdm

• Collections in progress or with restricted access:– Artists’ Books Collection– Formosa– Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery

– Reed College Senior Theses– Special Collections– Sexism in Advertising

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For more information, or if you have questions, please email me at

whalen@reed.edu

Thank You!