Moving Digital Images into the Classroom

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Moving Digital Images into the Classroom

• Luna Imaging Implementation
• Yale University Library

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Luna Project Participants at Yale

• Arts Library Visual Resources Collection
• Beinecke Rare Book Library
• Manuscripts and Archives
• Yale Museums
• Library Systems Office teams
• Information Technology Services
• Luna Imaging, Inc.
• Future contributing units Orbis Pictus

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Project Objectives

• Develop and study the classroom use of digital
  technologies
• Driven by faculty teaching needs
• Focus on the user interface
• Develop an integrated campus-wide image delivery
  system
• Create a research collection of digital images
  derived from Yales special collections and
  museums

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Teaching Tools

• Ease of use Added value
• Sophisticated visual environment
• Effective keyword and subject searching
• Classroom presentations (Java client)
• Web access (Insight Browser)
• Image groups for home study
• Image groups for student collaboration
• HTML export printed output

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Visual Resources Collection Progress

• Active faculty use both for classroom
  presentation and student image study
• Building the image collection for digital course
  support
• Teaching Insight to faculty and students
• Field-testing the tools in the classroom
• Value of the Luna Users Group

http//ia-insight.library.yale.edu/insightbrowser2
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New Developmentsin 2001/2002

• Renewed support for YUL digital imaging
• Goal Group reports
• Knowledge Management service
• ELI program (Electronic Library Initiatives)
• Beinecke digitization project scanning facility
• ArtSTOR initiative at Mellon Foundation
• Opportunities for campus-wide integration
• Solaris/Oracle platform at Stanford

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Insight Version 3.0Spring, 2002

• New Luna database structure
• Cross-collection searching
• Complex object relationships
• Data loads from diverse sources
• Mapping of metadata to common standard
• Image annotation and bi-directional web links
• Relative scale and measurement (maps)
• Multi-view images (container / objects)
• Audio and Video clips

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Insight Version 3.5Fall, 2002

• Page-image navigation for multi-page documents
  (including lens)
• QuickTime VR virtual tours, image links
• Portability of classroom presentations
• Streamlined image loading, data editing, system
  management, and operation
• Searching of annotations
• Fuzzy date searching (date range, circa, etc.)

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Future Enhancements

• Management of personal faculty collections
• End-user loading of data and images
• Web-based input form
• Metadata standards controlled vocabulary
• Richer models for data retrieval
• Navigation of interrelationships
• e.g. Inxight Topic Map at Highwire Press
  http//highwire.stanford.edu/
• e.g. Geospatial Timeline

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Future Enhancements

• Interoperability
• Accessibility to Insight from external systems
  (MetaLib OAI Data Provider)
• Reference Linking through SFX
• Image and Data import from Non-Luna resources
  (OAI Service Provider)
• Authentication Rights management
• Preservation Archiving

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Insight Java Client
Browser Insight
Beinecke Rare Books (20,000 images)
Manuscripts Archives (4,000 images)
Visual Resources Collection (20,000 images)
David Rumsey Map Collection
Estate Collection (Artists with Aids)
Saved Image Groups Classroom Presentations
Yale Insight Server (v.3.0) with cross-collection
searching
Luna Imaging at Yale 2001-2002
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Insight Java Client
Beinecke Rare Books (50,000 images)
OAI Metadata Harvester
Browser Insight
Manuscripts Archives (10,000 images)
MetaLib Gateway
Yale Art Gallery (15,000 images)
Visual Resources Collection (40,000 images)
Special Collections (5,000 images)
ArtSTOR
Walpole Prints (3,000 images)
Course Support e.g. Afro Am (2,000 objects)
David Rumsey Map Collection
Estate Collection (Artists with Aids)
Saved Image Groups Classroom Presentations
Yale Insight Server (v.3.5)
Luna Imaging at Yale 2002-2003