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Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s Campus Jamie Lausch University Library Associate University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

VRA2010 Local Color: A Database of Art on Campus

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Jamie Lausch, University of Michigan, Art Architecture and Engineering Library presentation from VRA 28, "Local Color: A Database of Art on Campus", from the closing plenary session "Collections of Distinction: Adding Value to the Online Community of Visual Resources"

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Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s

Campus

Jamie LauschUniversity Library Associate

University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

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A Resource for the UM School of Art & Design and Beyond

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Inspired by other projects at UM AAEL

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At first, I was very ambitious…

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The project eventually involved units across the UM Campus

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I began adding images, focusing on tags identifying medium

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I referenced established vocabularies when assigning tags

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Each entry looks like this:

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We are using Mlibrary Flickr settings, but these can easily be adjusted

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The ultimate goal is to prepare the project for its new owners

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Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s

Campus

Jamie LauschUniversity Library Associate

University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library