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Teaching with Digital Collections in the Humanities

Marianne Colgrove, Deputy CTOReed College

Image licensed from Saskia, Ltd. through Scholar’s Resource

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Slide projector

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slides

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About the Digital Assets Management Project

• Collaboration between IT, the library, and the visual resources collection

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

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Project Goals

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

• Long-term goal: Teaching with digital materials across the curriculum

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Faculty Input

• Copious high-quality content• Reliable searching (good data)• A “garden path” to course content• Web interfaces for quick browsing• Flexible in-class tools• Student access outside of class• How to analyze visual resources

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The Humanities Challenge

• 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

• Images moving beyond “art days”

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Four integrated elements

• Content (images & other materials)• Metadata• Web interfaces for finding & browsing• Tools for organizing and presenting

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Content for Teaching

• Licensed images• Faculty pics• Copystand images from books

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Image with metadata

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Browsing interface

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My Workspace