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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello ARLIS Colleagues, Below you will find information about a symposium at UCI showcasing Luna's Insight software and Yale's collaborative projects. We purposely organized it so that it could land close to the annual conference in LA, but have only just now finalized the plans and locked in the speakers. Please join us if you can (Irvine is about 50 miles south of Los Angeles, but connected by train lines). Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can provide you with any additional information. Best regards, Maureen INSIGHT AT LAST: A SYMPOSIUM DEMONSTRATING VERSATILE SOFTWARE FOR CLASSROOM IMAGE PRESENTATION AND INNOVATIVE DIGITAL COLLABORATIONS EMERGING FROM YALE UNIVERSITY MICHAEL ESTER, President and Founder of Luna Imaging Inc. MAX MARMOR, Yale University, Head Arts Library BARBARA ROCKENBACH, Yale University, Arts Library Instructional Services Librarian Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:00 to 5:00 PM University of California, Irvine Humanities Instructional Building (room location to be announced) Sponsored by: UCI School of Humanities, Humanitech & Visual Resources Collection and the Visual Resources Association, Southern California Chapter Open to: faculty, staff, students, and colleagues. For more information: contact Maureen Burns at (949) 824-8027 or [log in to unmask] RSVP requested not required. One of the biggest challenges of the digital imaging realm is to bring high quality images into the classroom in a pedagogically appropriate and convenient way for instruction. Luna Imaging Inc. enables museums, libraries and archives to build and distribute high quality visual collections in digital form and provides sophisticated software to manage, access and use multiple image collections over the Internet. Their Insight software combines retrieval and display of text information with an equally rich set of tools for viewing, comparing and organizing images. Luna understands the mission and priorities of the cultural heritage community. For example, the software's presentation features include easy to use tools for viewing, comparing, and organizing images. With Internet access, one laptop, and a digital projector, an instructor can display an image or juxtapose a flexible array of images, zoom and pan on images without losing image quality, add annotations, link images to different media types (audio and video), view three dimensional images from a variety of perspectives, use a measurement and scaling feature, and export the image presentation to a website. Yale University is using Luna's Insight and providing compelling reasons to collaborate on digital imaging projects benefiting the educational community as a whole. A demonstration of how Yale is using this software for instruction and the programmatic reasons for using Insight will be discussed. Michael Ester, President and founder of Luna Imaging Inc. and a recognized leader in digital imaging, will demonstrate the Insight software and provide information about planning for the development and presentation of digital resources. Dr. Ester was Director of the Getty Art History Information Program from 1985 to 1993, which established standards and practices to help shape the direction of automation in the visual arts. He then formed Luna Imaging Inc. in 1993 with support from the J. Paul Getty Trust and Eastman Kodak Company. Written for the Commission on Preservation & Access in Washington, DC, Dr. Ester's report Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice remains a basic reference for best practices in building digital collections. Prior to joining the Getty, Dr. Ester was on the faculty of Rutgers University in both computer science and archaeology. He received his Bachelor's degree in mathematics and anthropology from George Washington University and earned doctorates in the same disciplines from Brandeis University. With his in-depth background and unique perspective on the world of visual collections in the digital world, Dr. Ester is exceptionally qualified to speak on the potential of digital technology for university teaching. Max Marmor is the Head of the Arts Library at Yale University, of which the Visual Resources Collection is part, and has previously worked at the University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University, and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. The academic year 2000/2001 finds him on leave from Yale having been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Council on Library and Information Resources by the Digital Library Federation. In that role, he is working with the DLF and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on developing strategies for building digital image collections that respond to basic needs in the art history, visual culture, and material culture fields, now in the context of Mellon's new ArtSTOR initiative. Max will be sharing information about these model collaborations and discussing the programmatic reasons for using the Insight software. He is also editor of the forthcoming second volume of the Guide to the Literature of Art History. Barbara Rockenbach is Instructional Services Librarian in the Arts Library at Yale University. She came to Yale initially as a Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship, staying on as a Visual Resources Support Specialist before assuming her present position. She studied at the University of Illinois and received her Masters in Library Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was awarded an Information Ethics fellowship. She retains a keen interest in information ethics and is active in that field professionally. She is co-editor of the forthcoming new edition of Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography. Barbara works closely with faculty and students at Yale, especially those actively using digital images in the classroom and in other contexts. She is part of the Luna Insight implementation group at Yale.She will speak on instructional support for users of digital images and demonstrate how Yale is using the Insight software in the classroom. There will be time for questions and a panel discussion as well as a reception with refreshments in the UCI's Visual Resources Collection afterwards. ******************** Maureen Burns Humanities Curator Visual Resources Collection 61 Humanities Instructional Building University of California Irvine, CA 92697-3375 949-824-8027 phone 949-824-4298 fax [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]