Teaching with Digital
Collections in the Humanities
Marianne Colgrove, Deputy CTO
Reed College
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Image licensed from Saskia, Ltd. through Scholar’s Resource
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
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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
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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
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