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Instant Architecture: Hosted Access to the Archivision Research Library with Built-In Image Management & Presentation Tools
No full textThe Archivision Research Library is a collection of 100,000 digital images of art and architecture professionally photographed by a trained architect. It documents the built environment--from ancient monuments to cutting-edge contemporary constructions--with extensive, standardized descriptive metadata. Archivision is accessible for research and teaching through a web-based application--a dedicated hosted instance of MDID--with vrcHost LLC delivering full services and technical support: installation, integration, and maintenance. This combination provides not only instant access to Archivision, but also to sophisticated tools for managing images using an open source media management system to discover, aggregate, study, and present digital media.
Acknowledgements:
The authors would like to acknowledge and profusely thank Scott Gilchrist, President of Archivision, for his collaborative nature and the enormous contribution he has made to the field of visual resources over the last twenty-five years by making his high quality, well-described, professional photography/digital images commercially available for educational purposes as well as for his generous support of VRA activities
Reconfiguring Knowledge: Making the Digital Humanities Visual - SECAC 2015 VRA Affiliate Session
No full textThe 2015 SECAC VRA affiliate session highlighted the issues surrounding the support, development, dissemination, and preservation of Digital Humanities projects in the arts and humanities. The presentations addressed the transformational changes brought about by introducing digital technologies into the arts and humanities disciplines. This article summarizes the session with information about how each speaker addressed ways to make the Digital Humanities visual
Creating a Publicly Available Image Collection for The South Side Community Art Center’s Art Collection: Case Study at the University of Chicago
No full textA two-year project to make the collection of the South Side Community Art Center more widely available resulted in the creation of a devoted, publicly available collection hosted by the University of Chicago Visual Resources Center in their LUNA database. Collaborators included a former Art History faculty member, interns, and the board of the South Side Community Art Center
Visual Resources Association 2016 Annual Business Meeting: Treasurer's Report
No full textThe Treasurer's Report, presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association, held March 10, 2016 in Seattle, Washington, reviews the state of the organization's finances, and includes a summary of long-range economic trends affecting the Association's budget and membership numbers over the past decade, together with details of the measures the Association is taking to reduce operating expenses. Also noted is the effect of current economic conditions on our investment strategy
A Digital Transition: Two Cat Digital and Gawain Weaver Art Conservation
No full textThe evolution from scanner and 35mm dSLR to a Phase One IQ3 100MP medium format instant capture system at Two Cat Digital / Gawain Weaver Art Conservation is described, including quality, speed, and cost advantages in the digital capture of reflective and transmissive photographic materials
Digitizing Chevron's Media Legacy: A Case Study
No full textDigital Revolution digitized four decades' worth of Chevron's legacy media, including film, video tapes of multiple different formats and audio reels.The collection included fourteen different video tape formats, five audio tape formats, three film formats and 35mm slides, including PAL tapes from overseas. Preserving the content involved proper cleaning and handling of the older formats, which requires delicacy and knowledge of the media in order to ensure the best possible playback
President's Year-End Association Update, 2014
No full textThis article presents a year-end summary of the Visual Resources Association's activities following the 2014 annual conference in March. Areas addressed are professional communications, the visual resources profession, education and professional development, intellectual property, data standards, and ongoing Association business
Open Content at the Getty Research Institute
No full textThe Getty launched its Open Content Program in August 2013. The Open Content Program makes high-resolution images, which are either in the public domain or to which the Getty holds the copyrights, available for download free of charge via the Getty's website (www.getty.edu). This article provides an overview of the approach used by the Getty Research Institute
Rich Texture: New Resources for Teaching and Learning in an Image-Centric World
No full textA transcript of Kathe Hicks Albrecht's introductory remarks for the Visual Resources Curators Group session at the SECAC 2011 Conference held at the Savannah College of Art and Design, November 9-12, 2011 in Savannah, Georgia entitled Rich Texture: New Resources for Teaching and Learning in an Image-Centric World
extraMUROS and the 21st century image library
No full textIn 2011, a group of librarians, faculty, programmers and documentarians began developing an open-source HTML5 infrastructure built on public APIs that enables faculty, students, staff and the general public to view, annotate, and remix Harvard-owned digital multimedia collections and to interconnect them with other high-quality digital repositories across the web. This paper tells the story of this project from the librarians’ perspective, describing the work and what was learned