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ARTstor is partnering with Smith College to share approximately 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett in the Digital Library. David Boggett is a Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at Kyoto Seika University, where he has taught Japanese and Asian history of over 30 years. His photographs focus on the historic buildings, religious and civil festivals, and traditions of Kyoto and the nearby Lake Biwa area of Shiga Prefecture. The collection in ARTstor will document the historic architecture in the area, particularly shrines and temples, and the local festivals celebrated at these sites. The images also record the traditional rituals, customs, costumes, and artifacts associated with the festivals, many of which are no longer held, or have been altered through the influence of modernization and tourism. For more detailed information about this collection, visit the David Boggett: Art, Architecture, and Festivals in Japan (Smith College) collection page. Google Image Search Gets Usage Rights Filtering “In an effort to keep people from incorrectly reusing or re-purposing images found on its image search tool, Google has added new options that let users filter results by usage rights. Users can now filter photos by whether they’re available for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification, or commercial use with modification.” INSIGHT AND LUNA WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE JULY 25 – JULY 31 DURING THE MIGRATION PERIOD. We are migrating our Smith image database from the INSIGHT Java client software to LUNA, a web-based platform. This new LUNA platform will provide a number of advantages, including: * Access LUNA from any web browser. No more downloading the Java software. As you know, the current INSIGHT allowed you to save images into Groups and create Presentations from those Groups. In order to migrate to the new LUNA we ask for your help in transferring your material from INSIGHT to the new LUNA. If you have Groups or Presentations in INSIGHT please read the following instructions: PRESENTATIONS: In order to preserve your existing presentations (unfortunately, the INSIGHT Presentations cannot be transferred directly to the new LUNA) we ask that you select one of the following options:
We appreciate your help in this transition and we look forward to working with you in the new LUNA. Training and help documents will be available in late July. Please contact Elisa Lanzi or Jon Cartledge with any questions. “Bernard Frischer, designer of Ancient Rome for Google Earth, will speak on “Making Cultural Heritage Virtual: Rome Reborn and Other 3D Modeling Projects at the University of Virginia” on Thursday, April 2, at 5 p.m. in Graham Hall, Hillyer. During his talk, Frischer will explain how archaeologists and architectural historians are increasingly finding it useful to create digital 3D models of their objects of study. Digital models of ancient Rome and of several historical American sties recently created at the University of Virginia will be presented to exemplify uses of 3D models. The lecture will be of great interest to those in a range of disciplines, including art, computer science, history, and archaeology.” [from the Grecourt Gate News] A group of international scholars and representatives of leading museums, libraries, image archives and publishers have produced a set of best-practice recommendations for the scholarly use of visual media. Under the leadership of The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), the recommendations aim to “create a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media.” See the full report and recommendations at: |
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