Image Service Demonstrator Project

Project Description

The project is a development initiative of the California Digital Library. Using Luna Insight software, it will build a demonstrator online service that supports research and teaching in arts, humanities, and other disciplines that use surrogate images of works in architectural and the visual arts. The demonstrator will be developed with selected collections of digital images including the c.100,000 digital images being developed as part of the Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC).

See sections below:

• Goal
• Project Team
• Collections
• Project Report
• Assessment
• Toolkit
• Policies
• Presentations and Publications
• Vendor Information

Goal

Seeks to assess Luna Insight as a presentation and management platform for UC owned images. It will

• Assess ability of the vendor to process METS records (for MOAC); may also explore option of exporting in METS
• Evaluate technical issues related to CDL hosting of Insight, including options for campuses to control different parts
• Assess workflow issues
• Assess content management capabilities
• Evaluate cross collection searching capability
• Evaluate personal collections feature
• Conduct assessment of UC faculty and graduate students about using images in instruction and learning, and Insight's ability to meet their needs
• Develop a collection policy and strategy for additions to the service

More information [HTML]

Project Team

• Members
• Laine Farley, CDL, Project Manager
• Robin Chandler, CDL, Digital Content Coordinator
• Lena Shelton, CDL, Bibliographic Analyst
• Rosalie Lack, CDL, Assessment Analyst
• Brian Tingle, CDL, Technical assessment
• Christine Bunting, UCSC, Content Manager
• Rick Rinehart, Berkeley Art Museum, MOAC liaison
• Maureen Burns, UCI, Visual Resource Curators liaison
• Project Team meeting notes 11/08/02 [RTF]

Collections

• Image collections summary [RTF]
• MOAC collections description [RTF]

Project Report

• Project Conclusion/Next Steps, December 11, 2004 [password-protected] [DOC]
• Project Report, October 20, 2004 [password-protected] [DOC]
• Inscribe/XML Gateway Report [password-protected] [DOC]
• Outreach Plan for UC Image Services [password-protected] [DOC]

Assessment

• Phase I Report [PDF]
• Faculty interviews: Insight used in classroom. [password-protected] [RTF]
• Faculty matrix of tasks and tools. [XLS]
• Insight Personal Collections alpha test [password-protected] [RTF]
• Statistics (MOAC, Library of UC Images/Saskia, Tebtunis) [HTML]

Toolkit

• Staff Briefing [HTML]
• Permissions and Access Rights [RTF]
• Metadata
• Principles for Search/Sort/Display Fields [DOC]
• Luna Training 7/9/03 (UCB), 7/10/03 (UCI) 7/16-7/18/03 (UCSB)
  • Overview [PPT]
  • Questions from training sessions [RTF]
  • Top 3 Concerns [PDF]
• Sample Searches [RTF]
• Other instructional material [HTML]
• One page Image Services flyer, Spring 2004 [PDF]

Policies

• Image Demonstrator Terms of Use Statement [HTML]

Presentations and Publications

• Robin Chandler, "CDL's Image Demonstrator: Building Collections", Summer Summit on Digital Images, UC San Diego, July 22, 2004 [PPT]
• Image Demonstrator Project: Robin Chandler (all days) [PPT]; Christine Bunting, UC Santa Cruz (May 20-21) [PPT] Maureen Burns, UC Irvine (June 3-4) [PPT]
• Laine Farley, "University of California's Image Demonstrator Project", Summer Summit on Images, Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego, July 22, 2004 [PPT]
• Laine Farley, "Digital Image Services Come of Age", Syllabus2004, University of California, Berkeley, July 19, 2004 [PPT]
• Laine Farley, "University of California's Image Service", Luna Insight Users Group, Orlando, FL, June 24-25, 2004 [PPT]
• "Luna Helps Build UC Digital Library Collaborative", Luna Imaging e-News, May 20, 2004 [HTML]
• Laine Farley, "Digital Images Come of Age", Syllabus Magazine, May, 2004 [HTML]
• Laine Farley and Henry Pisciotta, "Digital Image Systems Come of Age (But Will They Ever Grow Up?), Digital Library Federation, New Orleans, April, 2004. [PPT] [RTF]
• Maureen Burns, "Start Small, Think Big: UC Digital Collaboration", Visual Resources Association Conference, Portland, OR, March, 2004 [PPT] [DOC]
• Maureen Burns, "Learning from LUCI: Faculty Perceptions of Digital Image Services", Visual Resources Association Conference, Portland, OR, March, 2004 [PPT] [DOC]
• Maureen Burns, "Where's My Stuff: UCI's Test of Insight's Personal Collections Feature", Visual Resources Association Conference, Portland, OR, March, 2004 [PPT] [DOC]
• Maureen Burns, "Digital Images Now Available Through the CDL", Technology in the Humanities, v11, n1, Winter 2004, p. 2.
• Rina Vecchiola, "New Electronic Resources! Digital Image Collections", UCI Libraries Update: A Newsletter for Faculty, v22, n1, Fall 2003 [HTML]
• Maureen Burns, ARLIS, Southern California chapter, UC Irvine, September 5, 2003, panel discussion and demonstration on image projects (including OAC, MOAC, and image demonstrator)
• "New Electronic Resources: Insight Images Collections", UCSB Libraries Newletter -- Fall 2003 Page 2 [HTML]
• "Changes to MOAC Collection via Luna Insight", CDLINFO Newsletter: August 14, 2003, v6, n13 [HTML]
• Maureen Burns and Laine Farley, "CDL Image Service Project", UC Computing Services Conference, UC Irvine, August 4, 2003 [PPT]
• "New Resources Available: Image Collections via Luna Imaging's Insight Software", CDLINFO Newsletter: July 10, 2003, v.6, n11 [HTML]
• Dan Gordon, "Art, Artifacts & Slides: Digitization Opens Collections to New Audiences and Uses", TLtC News, May, 2003 [HTML]
• Robin Chandler, ARLIS, Northern California chapter, Berkeley, CA, December 12, 2003 [HTML]
• "Image Service Demonstrator Project: New Web Page", CDLINFO Newsletter, December 11, 2003, v6, n20 [HTML]
• Maureen Burns, "They're Getting What They Need But Do They Want It?", Museum Computer Network conference, Las Vegas, NV, November, 2003 [DOC]
• Maureen Burns and Loy Zimmerman, "If You Build It, Will They Come? The Library of University of California Images in Transition", Visual Resources Association Bulletin 29(Winter 2002):60-68 (describes the history of the LUCI project and the aims of the image demonstrator project)

Vendor Information

• Luna Insight [HTML]
• CDL Support [HTML]
  

For access to password-protected documents, contact Lena Zentall.