Digitized images for instructional use
Paul Glassman
Dear colleagues:
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has participated in the
delivery of digitized images for instructional use. The President of the
school would like to see us migrate away from slides, and I would like to
be able to provide a comprehensive set of questions to assist in
evaluating our readiness for the idea. She is in particular recommending
the Amico database. My prelimiary questions are "How many of the Amico
images dovetail with those in stadard art and design history texts? To
what extent are the design arts represented in the database? What
percentage of the database contains images of architectural interiors?
What are the start-up costs for the delivery of the images into the
classroom? How flexible is the arrangement of the images for
instructional use?"
I am going to pursue a free trial period for evaluation and will also
post this inquiry to the VRA listserv.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
--Paul Glassman, Librarian
New York School of Interior Design
170 East 70th Street
New York, New York 10021
(212) 472-1500 x216; FAX (212) 472-8175; e-mail: pa...@nysid.edu
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Lena Stebley
Paul,
You may be interested in the findings of the recently-published final
report of
the Mellon study on =93The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social =
and
Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image
Data=94. I was a member of the project team on this study. The report =
raised
many issues and questions that are pertinent to your situation of
contemplating
converting to digital images for instructional use. Some of the major
findings
are summarized in the press release.
I=92ve pasted the text from a message previously forwarded to ARLIS-L that
includes a description of the report (see below). It gives a good overview =
of
the context for the study and includes the URLs for the final report and =
press
release. For your convenience, here is the URL to the press release:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/99press-release.htm=
l
It might be useful to pose some of your questions directly to AMICO --
particularly those about exactly what is in the database and not in the
database. (You may have already done this.)
Lena Stebley
Kress Fellow
Yale University Art =26 Architecture Library
180 York St / P O Box 208242
New Haven CT 06520-8242
lena.stebley=40yale.edu
http://www.library.yale.edu/art/aapage.html
Fax: 203.432.0549
Subject: Digital Image Distribution Study released
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Date: 2/8/99 10:47 AM
RE: Digital Image Distribution Study released
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
February 8, 1999
DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION STUDY NOW AVAILABLE
Berkeley Mellon Study of MESL Project
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Press Release:
=3Chttp://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/99press-release.=
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ml=3E
Report: =22The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and =
Economic
Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image =
Data=22
=3Chttp://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon=3E
Last year, the Getty Trust published its report on one of the most
influential and seminal digital projects of recent years, the Museum
Educational Site Licensing project.
Initially created to discover and define acceptable terms and conditions
for licensing the distribution of digital museum images in the educational
community, it grew to encompass, and bring its participants to grapple
with, in the words of Eleanor Fink (director of the sponsoring Getty
Information Institute) =22issues from content selection, image capture, and
standards for recording and transmitting data to systems interface design,
faculty and student training in new technology, software tool development,
use and impact studies, economic analyses and intellectual property
questions.=22
The Getty issued its report in two volumes last year: =22=22Delivering =
Digital
Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education,=22 (=2424.95=3B from
=3Chttp://www.getty.edu/publications/titles/deliv/index.html=3E and =
=22Images
Online: Perspectives from the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.=22
(=2412.50=3B from =
=3Chttp://www.getty.edu/publications/titles/images/index.html=3E.
Now, a Mellon Foundation-financed economic study of the MESL project,
conducted by the University of California at Berkeley has just been
released. =22The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and =
Economic
Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data=22
examines MESL's cost centers in the distribution of a digital library of
images and metadata.
The findings, according to the release,=22should be of interest to anyone
contemplating image digitization or distribution, particularly to a
scholarly audience. It should be of particular interest to those involved
in funding and/or planning activities involving either analog or digital
image distribution.=22
David Green
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=3EDate: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:27:11 -0800 (PST)
=3EFrom: Howard Besser =3Choward=40SIMS.Berkeley.EDU=3E
=3ETo: David Green =3Cdavid=40ninch.org=3E
=3ESubject: digital image distribution Study released
SPECIAL REPORT ON DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION STUDY IS NOW AVAILABLE
This press release looks better viewed on a web browser at
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/99press-release.htm=
l
A special report examining the costs of distributing digital images to the
university community has just been released. =22The Cost of Digital Image
Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production,
Distribution, and Usage of Image Data=22 is the result of a 22-month UC
Berkeley study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL),
supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The MESL Project, sponsored by the Getty Information Institute, was the
first attempt to create a collection of images and descriptive information
from a variety of museums and deliver it digitally to university users of
campus networks. The two-year experimental collaboration among seven
museums and seven universities succeeded in distributing approximately
10,000 images for classroom use and individual research, primarily in the
areas of cultural studies, art history, history, and photography.
The Cost of Digital Image Distribution identifies, defines, and explores
MESL's primary cost centers in the digital network distribution of images
and accompanying text. It examines the processes and costs of analog slide
libraries, and compares the analog and digital distribution systems. It
also considers the intangible factors that can lead to the success or
failure of digital distribution schemes, such as learning curve, ease or
difficulty of maintenance, and faculty attitudes towards teaching with
digital images.
The findings presented in this report should be of interest to anyone
contemplating image digitization or distribution, particularly to a
scholarly audience. It should be of particular interest to those involved
in funding and/or planning activities involving either analog or digital
image distribution.
Major findings include:
-It will be a long time before digital image repositories will be able to
deliver the critical mass of images needed for instruction and research.
Analog slide libraries and digital image repositories will necessarily
coexist for many years.
-The higher education community is enthusiastic about providing access to
digital images and information from cultural heritage repositories.
However, many impediments to widespread adoption must be dealt
with--ranging from lack of comprehensive content and the absence of
necessary tools to facilitate use, to inadequate recognition and support
for faculty who adopt new technology in their teaching.
-The anticipated shift from analog slide libraries to licensed digital
images represents a shift from ownership to access through ongoing
subscription. This shift is analogous to the changes that have taken place
in university library collections. University administrators are
concerned about controlling content costs and faculty are concerned about
ongoing access to the images they use and need. Those university positions
are at odds with those of museum image distribution consortia, who seek a
consistent revenue stream and are reluctant to assure ongoing access
without ongoing payment. For such image distribution schemes to work, both
museums and universities have to see their common goals as outweighing
their individual concerns.
=22The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic
Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data=22
Howard Besser, Principal Investigator=3B Robert Yamashita, Project Manager
A report to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation--A Study of the Economics of
Network Access to Visual Information: The Museum Educational Site
Licensing Project, Published by the School of Information Management and
Systems, U.C. Berkeley, 1998 Available online at
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon in both html and
PDF format
Paper copies of this report may also be ordered c/o Howard Besser, School
of Information Management =26 Systems, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California,
94720-4600
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Howard Besser
Associate Professor
UCLA Department of Information Studies
address thru August 1999:
School of Information Management =26 Systems
102 South Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
tel: (510)643-7365
office: (510)642-1464
fax: (510)642-5814
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At 05:29 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Paul Glassman wrote:
=3E----------------------------Original message----------------------------
=3EDear colleagues:
=3E
=3EI would be grateful to hear from anyone who has participated in the
=3Edelivery of digitized images for instructional use. The President of the
=3Eschool would like to see us migrate away from slides, and I would like to
=3Ebe able to provide a comprehensive set of questions to assist in
=3Eevaluating our readiness for the idea. She is in particular recommending
=3Ethe Amico database. My prelimiary questions are =22How many of the Amico
=3Eimages dovetail with those in stadard art and design history texts? To
=3Ewhat extent are the design arts represented in the database? What
=3Epercentage of the database contains images of architectural interiors?
=3EWhat are the start-up costs for the delivery of the images into the
=3Eclassroom? How flexible is the arrangement of the images for
=3Einstructional use?=22
=3E
=3EI am going to pursue a free trial period for evaluation and will also
=3Epost this inquiry to the VRA listserv.
=3E
=3EAny feedback would be appreciated.
=3E
=3E--Paul Glassman, Librarian
=3E New York School of Interior Design
=3E 170 East 70th Street
=3E New York, New York 10021
=3E (212) 472-1500 x216=3B FAX (212) 472-8175=3B e-mail: paul=40nysid.edu
=3E
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