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dpBestflow is comprehensive and clearly written guide from ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) that covers every aspect of digital photography. Learn how digital cameras really work, understand the difference between GPS, XMP, IFTC awith the glossary, and integrate best practices for image editing, file management, digital archiving, and copyright with your workflows.
The App Garden on Flickr brings together all the “home grown” applications created with the Flickr API. API’s allow developers to write programs using public data – photos, video, tags, profiles or groups – that allow you to explore Flickr’s content in new and different ways.
The University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia is creating a database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format. The Digital Scrolling Paintings Project aims to create a database that at once provides access to these rarely displayed artifacts while enabling a full investigation of the images and ideograms rendered.
Travel site Arounder uses Google maps to organize interactive, panoramic exhibits of a number of European cities and a few American sites. For each location listed on Arounder, a number of panoramic views are available including views of church interiors, city streets, public plazas, and natural or manufactured landscapes.
behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
Minneapolis Institute for the Arts and the Walker Arts Center have been collaborating sinse 1998 to bring their collections online for educational use with ArtsConnectED. Awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant for 2008 and 2009 , the site has been recently redesigned and is now more interactive and user-friendly. Art Finder allows you to search and browse over 100,000 items, including works of art and educational resources. With Art Collector, you can save, customize and present your personalized collections to other users on the site.
7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture donated by leading South Asian Islamic art and architectural historian Alka Patel and 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett are now available in ARTstor. In addition, over 80,000 photographs of high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities, 1,000 images of works on paper by Mark Rothko, and 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries have also been made available.
The Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vézelay in Burgundy, a destination for pilgrims in the 12th century, is one of the better preserved examples of Romanesque architecture. Images from the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Library include plans and photographs of the buildings exterior as well as its elaborate sculptural program.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a prototype, Bungee View, to help users gain a sense of the image collection as a whole and identity patterns – such as what materials were more prevalent in a particular period of the abbey’s history.
You can also view images of Chartres Cathedral in the Bungee interface.
Spezify is a search tool that presents textual, graphic, and photographic results in a visual format. Blogs, videos, microblogs and images, couple with web-based versions of more traditional print media to give comprehensive search results.
Sponsored by the Italian government, the Carlo Scarpa Archive project endeavors to preserve the architecture of and the process of practicing architecture employed by Scarpa throughout his career. The project website includes the digitized project drawings for the Museo di Castelvecchio, an interactive floorplan contextualizing these working drawings, and a bibliography chronicling the use of these drawings in scholarship and other literature over the past fifty years. As time passes, the archive will digitize drawings and photography for other Scarpa projects.
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