Interoperability and UC's New Image Service

Maryly Snow (UCB)Margaret Hogarth (UCR)

Image Service Roll-out & Advisory Committee (ISRAC)

UCCSC, San Francisco, August 8, 2005

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ISRAC

Image Service Rollout & Advisory Committeehttp://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/israc/

• Rosalie Lack, CDL • Maryly Snow, UCB • Dan Goldstein, UCD • Maureen Burns, UCI • Stephen Davison, UCLA • Emily Lin, UCM • Margaret Hogarth, UCR • Vickie O’Riordan, UCSD • Brian Warling, UCSF • Susan Moon, UCSB • Greg Careaga, UCSC

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ISRAC Presentation Outline

• Introduce UC Image Service

• How it works

• Interoperability issues

• Q&A and suggestions

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Image Service Collections

• 326,000+ high resolution, zoom-able images– MOAC– Saskia– AMICA*– SPIRO: Arch + Arts + Places– LUCI– Hartill– David Ramsey Map Collection– Estate Virtual Collection (Project for Artists with Aids)– Farber Gravestone Collection– Hoover Institution Poster Collection– Japanese Historical Maps Collection– Tebtunis Papyri Collection

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History/Background

• Division of Library Automation (DLA)– Melvyl, 1977

• California Digital Library (CDL)– UCB Image DB Project, 1987– SPIRO, 1994– OAC, 1995– MOAC, 1999– VRTF, 2002– Image Demonstrator Project, 2003– UC Image Service, 2005

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UC Image Service

• University of California archives, libraries, museums, visual resources collections, and licensed collections

• Federated search system

• Presentation and image management capabilities

• Enriches instruction and research opportunities

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Image Service Benefits

• Access any time, anywhere

• Browsing and discovery

• New ways of looking, organizing

• Integrate text, images, and links

• Multiple users

• Export to PowerPoint and Blackboard

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Pedagogical Benefits

• Central delivery & coordination of visual teaching content

• Shareable & accessible institutional image collections

• Integrated personal image collections

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Targeted Users

• UC faculty, GSIs, TAs, researchers, students, and staff

• Available NOW

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For the Future

• Luna Insight Web version

• XML gateway– Searching all Insight collections– Searching all UC collections regardless

of format (metasearch)

• XML gateway issue– SPIRO will need to be migrated from

UCB to CDL.

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Image Service Content Development

• California Digital Library (CDL) coordinates content of UC's Image Service, based on recommendations from the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSCSC)

• Subject selectors of the University Libraries– Who are they?

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/selectors/summaryliaisontable.rtf

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Academic Disciplines

• Illustrates the arts, history, architecture, design, literature, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture, archaeology, geography, gender, ethnic, and area studies.

• Future content in the sciences, music, film studies as available.

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UCIS Technical Issues• Coordinate with systems: installation

& tech support.

• Authentication issues: 3 levels of access

• Browser vs. java client interfaces

• One-time java client download

• File management

http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/

UC Image Service Web Site

Choose collection

Default entry screen

Enter search term

Search field list, long

Search Results for Love

Image and accompanying data

Insert Links in Images

Add Annotations to Images

Workspace, with images open

Create a new group

Saving a new group

Save group to a local folder

Create and order a presentation

Export a presentation to HTML

Choose resolution for presentation

PCs must have active-x controls enabled

Test HTML presentation

Export Presentation to PowerPoint (to Keynote for Macs)

Choose resolution for PowerPoint or Keynote Export

Test PowerPoint feature

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Other Issues

• Training

• Technical

• Promotion

• Intellectual Property

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Conclusion

• A piece of software can bring together librarians, visual resources curators, instructional technologists, and information technologist in a new decision-making process intended to support the pedagogical needs of faculty and students.

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ISRAC Web site:http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/israc/index.html

UC Image Service http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/

Maryly Snow Architecture and Visual Resources Librarian, UCBmaryly@berkeley.edu(510) 642-3439

Margaret HogarthElectronic Resources Coordinator, UCRmargaret.hogarth@ucr.edu(951) 827-2937

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