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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.
These online images:
- Supplement and support one-on-one and classroom interactions between faculty and students in a wide range of departments
- Provide a resource for individual 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
The selection of objects to be imaged for the DAC's course pages is based on requests from Wesleyan faculty who have pedagogical use for such images. If you teach at Wesleyan and would like to submit requests in connection with your courses, please do the following:
- To see how we're making images available for student viewing, explore a few links for courses we're already supporting
- To learn about the aims and limits of this phase of the initiative, read our call for requests for imaging
- And then contact us with your ideas, questions, or requests
For further general information about the project, please see:
- Rather technical descriptions of our workflow and procedures for image capture and processing in the previous and current phases of the project
- Interpretive tips and caveats regarding scholarly use of the online images produced in the previous and current phases of the project
- Calibration images that illustrate the effects of some of our standard operating procedures in the previous and current phases of the project
- Comments about our decision to use direct capture with a digital camera rather than going through a film stage or using a scanner
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