Digital Collections News http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/ en Copyright 2009 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:43:48 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Upcoming ScreenFlow Workshops Digital Collections is offering two hands-on workshops on ScreenFlow, a Mac-only tool that allows you to capture video of what you do on your computer screen. Session 1: Thursday, Nov. 19th, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Session 2: Friday, Nov. 20th, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Both workshops will be held in the Digital Collections Training Lab, main library, second floor, east tower. To sign up for one of these workshop sessions, please e-mail Julie Rudder at: j-rudder@northwestern.edu ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/003731.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/003731.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:43:48 -0600 Adobe's New Photoshop.com Adobe recently launched Photoshop.com, which provides digital photo uploading, editing and sharing capabilities online. What sets it apart from other sites such as Flickr and Picasa is the ability to easily backup your photos on your desktop computer, laptop or external hard drive. It's surprising just how fast you can create an account, upload, edit and share your photos in Photoshop.com. Even better, if you already have a collection of online photo albums at sites such as Facebook, you can easily add these albums directly into your Photoshop.com library. If you are familiar with Adobe Elements 7 and Adobe Premiere Elements 7, the capabilities here will look and feel familiar. Photoshop.com has also developed a mobile iPhone Application for working on your photo albums on the go. This is available for free download through the iTunes store. Check out Photoshop.com, and you can either take a "Test Drive" of the site, or create an account. There are two different types of accounts. First, there is the free "basic" account, which offers all of the capabilities on Photoshop.com with 2 GB of space for your photos. Then there is the upgraded basic account, which offers more memory for the price of about $1/GB annually (starting at 20 GB for $19.99 and capping at 500 GB for $499.99). Picture%209_1.png Screen shot of the home page after you login to Photoshop.com. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/003727.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/003727.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:45:18 -0600 ARTstor announces export to PowerPoint (it works with Keynote too) ARTstor has released a new feature to Instructor-level users that streamlines the process of exporting images and descriptive data from ARTstor. You may now export image groups to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 in just a few clicks. When viewing an image group, look for the Export to PowerPoint icon ( i-ppt.png ) in the utility bar or click Tools > Export to PowerPoint. The resulting PowerPoint file will include: * A title slide displaying the name of the image group. * Individual slides for each image in the group, in the order in which they appear in the image group. * ARTstor descriptive data for each image, appearing in the notes field of each slide. * Embedded hyperlinks in each image that will launch the ARTstor Image Viewer when clicked in presentation mode (requires web access). ARTstor has instituted certain export limits during the Beta period and will be evaluating the performance of this new feature over the fall semester. For more information, visit ARTstor Help (http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Presenting#Export_to_PowerPoint_.28Beta.29) or contact User Services at userservices@artstor.org ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/003664.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/003664.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:21:15 -0600 NORTHWESTERN BOOKS Northwestern University Library recently launched the public access interface for its book digitization initiative, The Mounting Books Project. NORTHWESTERN BOOKS allows you to read and explore entire books online. The digitized books are linked from the library's online catalog, NUCat. You may also access the site directly to search the full text by keyword. Currently, there are over 167 books available online. If you are a faculty member who would like to request that an entire book be digitized, please contact digitalcollections@northwestern.edu for more information. Each book goes through a screening process to make sure it is a good fit for the digitized collection. The copyright status, size and condition of the book are evaluated for each request. mounting%20books.jpg Repository Architect, Steve DiDomenico and Kirtas Production Specialist, Paul Clough presented Northwestern Books at a recent event of the Scholarly Resources and Technology Series. NORTHWESTERN BOOKS is now in beta release and will officially launch at the end of June. More about the project history and scope (from http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/books/about.html)
Northwestern University Library (NUL) uses a Kirtas automated book scanner and the services of external vendors to reformat brittle books, digitize special collections, and fulfill targeted patron digitization requests. Prior to 2007, however, the Library lacked a mechanism for making digital book facsimiles available online. In fall 2007, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded NUL a one-year grant to develop software to gather page scans, apply book structure, prepare OCR and JPEG2000 derivatives, generate technical and preservation metadata, submit these book objects to a Fedora repository, and present a public book viewer with both page turning and search capabilities. The public book viewing site, Northwestern Books (books.northwestern.edu), became available in beta preview on April 6, 2009. The software developed through the Mellon-funded Mounting Books project will be available for download as open source on June 1, 2009.
Picture%2031.png Kirtas Production Specialist, Paul Clough operates the Kirtas book scanner. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002859.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002859.html Thu, 21 May 2009 10:36:25 -0600 Firefox Add-on: AutoPager AutoPager is an add-on available for people using Firefox as your web browser. It works well with many major sites like Google, that display multiple pages of search results by automatically loading the next page when you reach the bottom. This could be useful for quickly browsing search results without waiting for the next page to load. Here's an example of how AutoPager works with Google Image search results. Everything above the gray bar is from the first page of results and everything below the gray bar is the second page of the search results. Picture%2034.png Thanks for the tip Brendan! ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002867.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002867.html Wed, 20 May 2009 11:15:08 -0600 New staff in Digital Collections Nicole Finzer joined the department as the Visual Resources Librarian on January 2, 2009. Nicole has a rich background in art image databases and image management. Contact Nicole if you would like to learn more about visual resources, or if you have an image collection that you are interested in digitizing and sharing with the Northwestern Community. Nicole can be reached at n-finzer@northwestern.edu or extension 7-1666. amandab.jpg Amanda Bates joined Digital Collections as our Instruction and User Services Assistant on December 8, 2008. Amanda teaches faculty and graduate students how to digitize and edit media in our 2East Training Lab. Amanda can be reached at a-bates@northwestern.edu or extension 7-1432. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002526.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002526.html Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:45:50 -0600 Highlights from the Digital Image Library: Modernism and the Black Metropolis In the spring of 2008, Art History faculty Huey Copeland co-taught a class called Modernism and the Black Metropolis with a faculty member from the University of Chicago. Digital Collections worked with these faculty to digitize over a thousand images for the class that are now available in the Digital Image Library. These images are a rich addition to the collection and can be used by Northwestern students, faculty and staff for study and research. To find these images, log into DIL using your NetID and password and perform the keyword search "copeland metropolis". Above image: Mount Royal, 1864, by Robert Scott Duncanson.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002415.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002415.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:19:26 -0600 ARTstor Training Sessions ARTstor for teaching and research? An ARTstor representative will be on campus Thursday, November 6th and you are invited to attend any of the following sessions: THURSDAY, November 6th, 2008. 10:00 am -- ARTstor introduction and overview in the 2East Reference Classroom (NUL 2699) 11:00am -- Teaching with ARTstor in the NUL Forum Room 1:00pm -- ARTstor for graduate students in the NUL Forum Room 2:00pm -- ARTstor for undergraduates in the NUL Forum Room Hope to see you there!]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002328.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002328.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:14:59 -0600 Pocket Projectors 3M recently launched a hand held projector and you can plug in your laptop via VGA or use the composite video jack to connect other hand held devices like, digital cameras, iPhone and iPods. The device uses LED illumination and the VGA resolution is 640 x 480. A popsci.com review states that projected in a well lit room, the images could only be viewed 11 inches wide but that a dark room would work well for moving images. 3M cites the projection range as 5" to 50". Recent developments in computer technology have increased the portability of digital content. Perhaps now with digital projectors moving toward portability (affordable too - $359!) the insular relationship with digital content will begin to change. Sharing digital content now is fairly dependent on complex classroom configurations or an individual viewing web based content on their own personal computers. Maybe portable projectors could allow digital content to become more of a bridge builder or a catalyst of social and pedagogical interaction? Apparently, the goal is to put this technology inside cell phones! Now I really want an iPhone. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002325.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002325.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:49:37 -0600 Real Player and Streamed Media Real Player 10 for free. If you are still having trouble, make sure you have your VPN turned OFF, as the VPN connection can interfere with the streaming process. For more troubleshooting information regarding streamed media, check out our troubleshooting page.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002292.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002292.html real player streamed media Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:29 -0600 Creating Stills and Still Frames in iMovie To Create a Still Frame: 1. Select a clip. Single-click on it. 2. Drag the playhead to the frame you want. 3. Go to Edit —> Create Still Frame 4. A 5 sec. still will be placed on the Clip Shelf. 5. To change duration, double-click on clip. 6. Drag into timeline. To Create a Still Image File: 1. Select a clip. Single-click on it. 2. Drag the playhead to the frame you want. 3. Go to File —> Save Frame. 4. Name your file, select a storage location, and click "Save". It's that easy! For more helpful hints, stop by the Digital Collections Training Lab or check out our tipsheets.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002275.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/002275.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:36:26 -0600 ARTstor Collection Additions Rothko transparencies -more than 300 Lichtensteins -an additional 2,848 images from the Scala Archives (including major Italian works) -the first 600 ARTstor images from the Franklyn Furnace Archives -an additional 14,000 archaeological images of Mayan excavations from the Carnegie Institution of Washington And there is still more to come! ARTstor is currently working with Harvard to digitize over 3,500 Renaissance and Baroque images. They are also collaborating with Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain and the National Monuments Record to add 18,000 medieval stained glass images to the collection. For more ARTstor updates, you can visit the ARTstor blog at http://www.artstor.org/blog or sign up for RSS feeds at http://artstor.wordpress.com/feed.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001963.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001963.html ARTstor Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:36:53 -0600 New ARTstor Platform Coming Soon Anyone who finds ARTstor a bit daunting or difficult to use may be in luck: they plan to unveil a Beta version of a new ARTstor Digital Library in the next few months, with a full release following later in 2008. The new Digital Library will run on AJAX, rather than the Java thin client platform currently used. This means the Library will be integrated into your web browser, rather than run as a separate Java client. In addition, ARTstor promises the new version includes some significant improvements. For one, the navigation menus have been streamlined, searching and browsing have been highlighted, permanent URLs for bookmarking images. The Digital Library will also feature My ARTstor, which should make it easier for users to navigate to their saved links and image groups. For those of you who prefer the ARTstor Digital Library you already know, don't worry. The current version and new version will be simultaneously available. Basic functionality in each version will be the same as well. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001955.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001955.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:39:29 -0600 PicLens, Silverlight and Hard Rock memorabilia There are new online interactive media viewers popping up everywhere! PicLens ,for example, turns your browser into an interactive 3D image viewer. It only works with some websites -- sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Google Images -- but they also have information on how to enable your own website for PicLens. I was very excited to see that PicLens is now compatible with YouTube! Even though I get a little dizzy in this visual environment, it is refreshing to be able to interact with large quantities of digital content with ease (and fun). It seems most successful with sites like Flickr, where people post hundreds of photos with little descriptive information. The social potential of sites like Flickr is limited in this view, as comments and links to other users are not viewable here, but you can easily get back to the normal view. The PicLens view is great for searching and viewing images on the internet and has potential for presenting image groupings as well. You have to install a Silverlight plugin to view the Hard Rock Memorabilia digital collection. Microsoft recently announced Deep Zoom, which allows for zooming in on high resolution images without waiting for large files to download. Read more about it here, and be sure to check out Elvis Presley's tiger-embroidered pants suit. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001953.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001953.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:04:13 -0600 Congratulations to Dan Zellner! Dan Zellner, the Multimedia Services Specialist in Digital Collections, has been appointed the 2008-09 Library Fellow at the Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Institute. This prestigious appointment includes a half time release from regular duties in order to focus on research and scholarship, to begin in September. Dan plans to research the history of Second City, Chicago's famous improv company, in relation to digital technologies and new media. We are all very proud of Dan and his amazing accomplishment. If you haven't done so already, stop by and say congratulations! http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001932.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/news/001932.html Wed, 14 May 2008 10:10:00 -0600