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Online Image Resources
Recommended, Created and Needed
These two appendices of resources and tools do not pretend to be comprehensive or authoritative. Rather, they record Web resources and tools mentioned by faculty, either in the survey or during an interview, as being particularly useful. On this wiki we invite you to comment on what's here and add your favorites in order to make these more comprehensive resources.
1. GENERAL
Recommended
Library of Congress, American Memory http://memory.loc.gov Well over 5 million sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://www.nypl.org/digital/digitalgallery.htm Free and open online access to 480,000 digital images from NYPL collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more. Excellent metadata and tools.
Wikipedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Useful media database of more than 700,000 items, available under free license and to which anyone can contribute.
WorldImages http://worldimages.sjsu.edu Some 50,000 images from California State University's IMAGE Institute for Education and Research that includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is organized into 500 portfolios, themselves organized into subject groupings.
Needed
“It would be great to have something on the site ‘About Using Images’ for faculty.” - Cecilia Miller, Wesleyan University
A good guide with advice and examples from fellow faculty.
Note: See the webpage “Advice—Finding and Using Digital Images,” provided by the UK’s Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI). http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/using.html
2. AREA STUDIES
Recommended
A Day in the Life of Africa http://www.ditlafrica.com Some 100 of the world’s top photojournalists had 24 hours, February 28, 2002, to document the entire continent of Africa. “I’ve used this for a number of assignments very successfully.” - Michael Niemann, Trinity College
In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa 1885-1960 http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/focus/index.html Online companion to exhibit mounted by National Museum of African Art of images: some 50 images.
Asia Network http://www.asianetwork.org Network of 150 liberal arts colleges teaching Asian Studies. The site “includes teaching resources, links, and a few sample syllabi.
Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS) http://ideas.nitle.org/ NITLE cooperative project encouraging submissions and comments to this excellent shared searchable image database: images have rich metadata and useful tools.
Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/ University of Nagasaki Library collection of some 6,000 photographs. Also see High-Definition Image Database of Old Photographs of Japan (http://zoomphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/)
Kamat’s Potpourri http://www.kamat.com Personal website of Indian culture containing thousands of mostly small images.
Kyoto National Museum http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/index_top.html and Nara National Museum http://www.narahaku.go.jp/resources/index_e.htm Around 100 images of masterworks from the collections of the Kyoto Museum, focusing on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art, together with a few images from past and current exhibitions. Nara Museum concentrates on Buddhist art (English site under construction, July 2006). Includes an image database of its photographic collections, also available only in Japanese. “Wonderful very large images.” - Hank Glassman, Haverford College.
3. ART HISTORY/ARCHITECTURE/PHOTOGRAPHY
Recommended
Art Images for College Teaching http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/ Allan T. Kohl’s collection of digital images of his own high-quality photographs of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture, well documented and linked to art textbooks.
Artchive http://www.artchive.com/ Commercial website with large images of some 2,000 artworks.
Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com Commercial website with links to some 180,000 artworks. “Good images, with provenance and the ability to zoom.” - Linda Simon, Skidmore College
Artnet http://www.artnet.com Commercial website for the commercial auction and art gallery world containing an extensive well-documented image database of some 180,000 artists.
Artserve http://rubens.anu.edu.au/ Organized by Michael Greenhalgh, Professor of Art History at Australian National University, this site has more than 450,000 art history images. “Art and Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia...A huge number of very large images” [although with no accompanying metadata]. - Nicholas Adams, Vassar College. "The only site that consistently turns up useful images," Robert Nelson, Yale University.
Asian Historical Architecture http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/ A Wikipedia-like collection of 9,000 images of 595 sites in eighteen countries from many contributors. One faculty member in Asian Architecture asked people to send him pictures of buildings, and now it’s a wonderful collection, with terrific images—and I found this by accident—and got lost within it.” - Michael Marcotrigiano, Smith College
Beasley Archive http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk A research unit of Oxford University’s Classics department, the archive includes 250,000 black and white photographs, 33,000 negatives, 7,000 color prints of pottery, sculpture and gems. Includes: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum http://www.cvaonline.org, an illustrated catalog of more than 100,000 ancient vases. - Guy Hedreen, Smith College
Cities/Buildings Database http://www.washington.edu/ark2/ An image database of some 5,000 medium-sized images from across time and throughout the world.
Digital Archive of Architecture http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/ The digitized slide collection of Boston University’s Jeffery Howe.
Digital Imaging Project http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index2.html Some 13,000 images of sculpture and architecture from pre-history to post-modern by Margaret Sullivan, Bluffton College. - Amelia Carr, Allegheny College
FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of MesoAmerican Studies http://research.famsi.org/ Several image databases.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco http://www.thinker.org 82,000 images from the collections.
George Eastman House: Photography Collections Online http://www.geh.org “So far a small part of this collection is digitized but it has great potential.” - Erina Duganne, Williams College Note: Also see collaborative website with International Center for Photography, opening in Fall 2006: Photomuse http://www.photomuse.org/
Great Buildings.com http://www.greatbuildings.com/ A commercial site documenting 1,000 buildings with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, cross-linked with Architecture Week.
Himalayan Art http://www.himalayanart.org/home.cfm Portal to collections of Himalayan Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/ Some 6,500 objects—highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Paintings and Sculpture—can be accessed online. Excellent metadata and full descriptions. Zoom tool enables close-up examination of objects on the website.
Search For Images: Yale University Library’s Guide to Searching for Art History Images Online http://www.library.yale.edu/art/imageresources.html “A very useful guide. I haven’t seen anything like it.” - Sandy Isenstadt, Yale University
Society of Architectural Historians’ Image Exchange: World Architectural History http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts1.html A community-built resource.
Textile Museum of Canada: Collection Online http://www.textilemuseum.ca Excellent viewing tools for more than 3,000 examples from the museum’s collection. “I think this is one of the best. It’s a really good resource for me and I’m going to try to build a whole project around it.” - Margo Mensing, Skidmore College Note: See also Textiles Collection of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Data Service-Visual Arts based on the collection at the University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham with links to other collections. http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/ST.html “More than 3,000 artifacts, ranging from Coptic textiles (800-1000 AD) through to British woolen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving and Scandinavian furnishing fabrics (1950-1990).”
Urban Design Research Guide of the University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/urbhist.html#images A selective bibliographic research guide to Internet sites and library resources supporting urban design research at UC Berkeley. “Very useful.” - Jill Pearlman, Bowdoin College
Victoria & Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/ Searchable image database of some 26,000 images from the V&A collections of decorative arts: ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and textiles.
Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/index.html A highly-recommended virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15,000 works.
Created
Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan http://www.bowdoin.edu/mongol-scrolls/ “Project set up with Professor Tom Conlan at Bowdoin. The value-added piece is the guided tour: the faculty perspective and interactive component. It has become very popular on campus; once others see it they become very enthusiastic about using it. The zoom and scroll feature is very useful.” - David Israel, Bowdoin College
Needed
“Hard to find sufficient Asian Art resources.” - Lillian Tseng, Yale University
“American Council for Southern Asian Art’s (ACSAA) color slide project at the University of Michigan (http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/acsaa/Acsaa/index.html) should be digitized.” - Phyllis Granoff, Yale University Note: ACSAA signed an agreement with ARTstor, May 2005; 10,000 of ACSAA’s 12,200 slides should be digitized and released by Fall 2006. See announcement at http://www.artstor.org/info/collections/acsaa.jsp.
4. ASTRONOMY/Physical Sciences
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Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ “A good example of the terrific websites with spectacular astronomy images available today.” - William Herbst, Wesleyan University
Compadre http://www.compadre.org/portal/Selector.cfm?S=2 A pathway of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) for Astronomy and Physical Sciences educational resources.
Hubble Site http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ NASA’s searchable database of images from the Hubble Space Telescope. - William Herbst, Wesleyan University.
NASA http://www.nasa.gov/ “I frequently use various NASA mission sites; planetary databases.” “I literally now have hundreds of thousands of high quality digital images from NASA accessible on the Web that I can use for courses and course assignments.” - Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College
National Virtual Observatory NVO http://www.us-vo.org/ Structure for access to images, other data, and catalogs from many observatories.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://www.sdss.org The Sloan Survey will map one-quarter of the entire sky and perform a redshift survey of galaxies, quasars and stars. The DR5 is the fifth major data release and provides images, imaging catalogs, spectra, and redshifts for download. Latest download includes 9 terabytes of images.
Created
Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy (CLEA) http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/CLEAhome.html A Gettysburg College NSF teaching Web site with downloadable laboratory exercises illustrating modern astronomical techniques using digital data and color images.
Needed
“A website is fine, but an electronic database of astronomical images [is still needed] and would be very convenient.” - William Herbst, Wesleyan University
5. BIOLOGY/Life Sciences/Medicine
Recommended
ASLO: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography: Image Library http://aslo.org/photopost/ Small collection of generally high resolution images; accepts contributions and comments.
BiosciEdNet http://www.biosciednet.org Portal to the biological sciences, managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as an element of the National Science Digital Library. Contains peer reviewed teaching resources.
Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection http://www.botany.org/PlantImages/ Excellent, large images, well-documented and indexed.
Digital Anatomist: Atlas of the Brain http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/cgi-bin/DA/PageMaster?atlas:Neuroanatomy+ffpathIndex:Splash^Page+2
Flybrain: Online Atlas and Database of the Drosophila Nervous System http://flybrain.neurobio.arizona.edu/ Images, JAVA applets and VRML manipulatable reconstructions.
Images from the History of Medicine http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?skin=nlm&lng=en Approximately 60,000 images in the prints and photographs collection of the History of Medicine Division of the United States National Library of Medicine.
Images from the Microscope http://swehsc.pharmacy.arizona.edu/exppath/micro/edu/imagesites.html Southwest Environmental Health Science Center’s guide to on-line collections of images taken with a microscope.
Invasive Species http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/ USDA’s National Agricultural Library on invasive species.
Microbe Library http://www.microbelibrary.org/ American Society for Microbiology’s collection of visual and curricular resources of use to teachers of microbiology.
National Biological Information Infrastructure’s Digital Image Library http://images.nbii.gov/landscape.php
National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/ “One good public resource for gene, protein structures and sequences. Can get for example a 3-D model of a protein structure you can rotate with a program NCBI makes available.” - Stephen Dellaporta, Yale University
STKE (Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment) http://stke.sciencemag.org/ “This section of the AAAS/Science Magazine website has a very broad collection of digital resources for teaching.” - Nancy Kleckner, Bates College
The Tree of Life web project http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html An NSF-funded international collaborative providing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Some 12,000 contributed images.
Visual Histology Atlas http://visualhistology.com/Visual_Histology_Atlas/index.html Has numerous images. Accompanies a series of videos available for licensing on DVD.
Created
Body Wall Formation in the Chick Embryo http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/musc_dev/ Animated Learning Object. - Ann Burke, Wesleyan University
Botany Database http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/projects/cbb99/Plants/cgi-bin/intro.pls Some 200 mostly local plants and algae used in teaching. - Barry Logan, Bowdoin College, with Bob Thomas, Bates College
Needed
“Would be nice to put some of my own animations into some central database structure where they would be available for others to use. Especially if it could be reciprocated.” - Stephen Dellaporta, Yale University
“A library of Flash animations would be useful; but how to standardize them is the problem: someone has to spend some money to set up a usable database.” - Douglas Kankel, Yale University
“I’m looking for Flash animations—but there’s still nothing as good as on video, such as Rachel Fink’s CELLebration (http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=1660), sponsored by American Society for Cell Biology.” - John Carlson, Yale University
6. CHEMISTRY
Recommended
Analytical Sciences Digital Library http://www.asdlib.org/list.php?mainCategory=Class%20Material Peer-reviewed collection of teaching resources, including images and animations.
Chem Collective: Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry http://www.chemcollective.org/ Mostly animations and course modules.
Crystal Lattice Structures http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/ Index and graphical representations of common crystal lattice structures, with multiple viewing options.
7. CLASSICS
Recommended
LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html A site on Roman antiquity, including a photogazeteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments. Mostly small images.
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.html Mostly small images.
Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Major assembly of digital collections of humanities resources hosted by the Tufts University’s department of Classics. Founded to collect and present materials for the study of Ancient Greece, it has expanded its original scope to include Greco-Roman classics, the English Renaissance, the papers of Edwin Bolles, and the history of Tufts University.
The Richmond University Department of Classics, Photo Library http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/photos/index.html A few hundred large images of the Grecian world—but with little metadata.
8. EARTH SCIENCES
Recommended
Agricultural Research Service Image Gallery of US Department of Agriculture http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/ Gallery of 2000 300-dpi images.
American Geological institute: Earth Science World Image Bank http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/ Some 6,000 images provided by American Geological Institute.
Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml Highly-recommended open source dataset for some 28,000 Landsat images—easily searched and accessed using Earth Science Data Interface (ESDI). The GLCF is also a center focusing on research in land cover science using remotely sensed satellite data and products to assess land cover change for local to global systems.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
NASA’s Visible Earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Catalog of NASA’s images and animations of the Earth.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Image Collections http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html Some 40,000 images in 20 collections.
PASDA Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access: The Pennsylvania Geospatial Data Clearinghouse http://www.pasda.psu.edu/access/index.shtml Supports search, display, and retrieval of GIS data, imagery, such as satellite images and aerial photographs, and metadata related to Pennsylvania.
Created
Atlas of Maine http://www.colby.edu/environ/courses/ES212/atlasofmaine/ Series of layered maps created by students in an introductory GIS course.
The Natural History of the Berkshires http://drm.williams.edu/nhb/ Hank Art at Williams College has conducted research on and taught how people and nature influence the ecosystems and relationships among species. This is one of a suite of websites created with students out of local materials. This site, a portrait of the local landscape, was the result of a course teaching students how to read the landscape, identify species and compare their own field measurements with historical materials to interpret changes in the environment.
It accompanies: The Rosenburg Archives http://drm.williams.edu/rosenburgarchives/, photographs taken from 1905 to 1930 at a local farm, now the 2,500-acre Hopkins Memorial Forest. Half a Century of Land Use Change in Williamstown, a project-in-progress addressing the changes in the biological and human landscape over the past 50 years using aerial photographs, historical maps, and vegetation data as well as interviews with farmers and farm family members who have lived through the experience of abandoning the agricultural enterprise.
8a Earth Science/Political Science
Created
The South China Sea http://community.middlebury.edu/~scs/ “Online resource for students, scholars and policy-makers interested in South China Sea regional development, environment, and security issues.” See especially maps and images of the region: http://community.middlebury.edu/~scs/maps_images.html, edited by David Rosenberg, PoliSci, Middlebury College
9. HISTORY
Recommended
Abstracting Africa: Thematic Mapping and British Imperialism, 1870–1930. http://www.newberry.org/smith/slidesets/ss30.html “A model for the ‘reading’ and interpreting of maps is one of the Newberry library’s slide sets from its Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography.” - Indira Karamcheti, English,Wesleyan University
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection at U Texas, Austin http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ - Cecilia Miller, History, Wesleyan University
Created
European Intellectual History Database http://www.wesleyan.edu/its/curl/v1/eih/aboutcurl.html A portal. “I have a database in European History—I’d like to blend maps into it.” - Cecilia Miller, History, Wesleyan University
Needed
“I would like to have a database on my area of research and teaching (Latin American History) that has a range of high quality images of figures, art, activities, etc, dating from the colonial period to the present. I regularly use on-line searches (such as Google) to find images that fit the content of my courses, and an all-purpose database to start with, with copyright free/approved images, would be nice.” - Latin-American Historian, Skidmore College
10. LANGUAGES
Recommended
Arte Historia http://www.artehistoria.com Spanish resources on Spanish painting used in language classes. - Carol Meyer, Bennington College
Cervantes Virtuel http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.shtml Virtual library of Hispanic culture. - Sonia Perez, Bennington College
REALIA (Rich Electronic Archive for Language Instruction Anywhere) http://www.realiaproject.org/ Peer-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures.
Created
Spanish Grammar Exercises http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ “I have a website, created 5 years ago out of frustration with static workbooks. (I was as bored as my students were). Using a Mellon grant, ostensibly for a personal page, it is now used in 191 countries and gets 25% of all Colby hits. It started as exercises: now it gives a new look at Spanish language and culture.” - Barbara Nelson, Colby College
Russia Today http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/RT/welcome.shtml “There are lots of pictures, maps, everyday items and links to interesting sites.” - Tom Beyer, Russian, Middlebury College
11. LITERATURE
Recommended
Carthalia http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/ Excellent site of postcards of theaters around the world: currently showing 3,700 images of 1810 buildings in 100 countries.
Collage http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app Commercial image database of some 20,000 works of art depicting London, categorized by theme, from the collections of the City of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery. Visible watermarks and small images.
Gode Cookery http://www.godecookery.com A voluminous site dedicated to medieval cookery, including many small images. - Maud McInerney, Haverford College
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Images (SCETI) http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/flash.cfm Facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the Penn Library’s collections plus other primary source materials that would otherwise be difficult to access. Also includes: The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) (Teaching Shakespeare on the Web).
12. MUSIC
Recommended
Silk Road Project http://www.silkroadproject.org/ Silk Road Seattle http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/ Silk Road, Smithsonian http://www.silkroadproject.org/smithsonian/index.html. “All show a multi-layered, multi-media approach to music and culture. I look at these all the time and think about them and how valuable they are in different contexts and different modes and would like to do more of that kind of thing with my material—but it’s a vastly time consuming process.” - Jennifer Post, Ethnomusicology, Middlebury College
13. SOCIOLOGY
Recommended
Internet Missionary Photography Archive http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/digarchives/mission/ Getty-funded project compiling Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, continental Europe, and North America. - Gregory C. Stanczak, Williams College.
Los Angeles Regional History Collections http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/regional Some two million images documenting one hundred years of Southern California history.
