Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share the following announcement with the list so that you
might
take advantage of these new resources.
Enjoy,
Nancy Harm
Luna Imaging, Inc.
New York Regional Office
direct: 917-521-1309
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www.LunaImaging.com
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David Rumsey and Cartography Associates announced the launch this week of
Visual Collections www.davidrumsey.com/collections/, a new digital image
collection portal that includes more than 300,000 works from museums,
universities and private collections throughout the world. Combined,
the collected works create an unparalleled online resource in the arts
and humanities that is available for free, public access.
Fine art, photography, maps, architecture and other collections of
culture are represented within Visual Collections, which is made
possible through the contributions of dozens of institutions. At its
launch, more than 30 collections are represented in Visual Collections,
ranging from the fine art of Museums & the Online Archive of California
(MOAC) to early maps of Scotland from the University of Edinburgh's
Charting the Nation collection.
"Visual Collections supports our mission to ensure these important
works of art and cultural heritage are more widely available. We are
pleased to be among the first to contribute to such a tremendous
resource for scholarship," says Dan Greenstein, UC University
Librarian for the California Digital Library, which supplied 77,000
images from its MOAC collection. MOAC is itself a collection developed
through collaboration among California museums and libraries that share
an interest in broadly disseminating images derived from their many
wonderful collections.
The mission of Visual Collections is to encourage the development of
future collections and facilitate their worldwide distribution to both
scholars and the general public, says Cartography Associates President
David Rumsey, who included his own historical map collection among the
resources available.
"We believe Visual Collections will serve as an inspiration for
others to develop collections of their own and share them. As they do,
the image collection portal will continue to grow," Rumsey says.
Using Luna Imaging's Insight software, the collections are available
in an online environment that allows each to be explored individually,
to be used in conjunction with one another or accessed as one large,
comprehensive collection. Collections have been organized under five
topics: Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and Other and
are also presented as a complete list in the View All tab. Users can
search for a particular artist, time period, or medium, and use the
powerful tools provided by Insight to zoom, pan, view image data and
save groups of images.
Most of the collections in Visual Collections are available for free
public access. In a few cases, use of materials is limited to
educational use and subscriptions are required, but complete
low-resolution versions of all the collections are available. For more
information, please contact Cartography Associates at
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