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Digital Imaging Initiative

The DAC Digital Imaging Initiative creates digital images of original objects in the Davison Art Center Collection. As time allows, systematic groups of images complement more specifically targeted groups of images for online study by students in selected Wesleyan courses.

We are now planning the next phase of this initiative, which will entail rapid photography of larger numbers of collection objects in summer 2013. More news about that next, higher-volume phase of imaging will appear here in the spring. The images that work creates will be made available online later in 2013 via DAC Collection Search, and in all suitable cases as DAC Open Access Images. Some of the text below, and some of the content in the pages to which that text links, describes earlier phases of DAC digital image capture and delivery.

A 19th-century photograph imaged for History 226 / East Asian Studies 226: Japan since 1800

Digital images online from the DAC:

• Supplement and support one-on-one and classroom interactions between faculty and students in a wide range of departments
• Provide a resource for student review after class viewings of actual objects on museum premises
• Enable more informed and focused student access to original objects for first-hand study as primary sources at the DAC

If you teach at Wesleyan and would like to submit imaging requests in connection with your courses, please do the following:

1. To see how we're making images available for student viewing, explore a few links for courses.
2. To learn about the aims and limits of this phase of the initiative, read our call for requests for imaging
3. And then contact us with your ideas, questions, or requests

For further general information about the project, please see:

• Rather technical descriptions of workflow and procedures for past phases of image capture and processing
• Interpretive tips and caveats regarding scholarly use of the images produced in those phases of the project
• Calibration images that illustrate the effects of some of our standard operating procedures in those phases of the project

www.wesleyan.edu/dac/ddii/ddii_intro.html
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