Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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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.
The ImageBase is an image and text database of over 110,000 objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).
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.
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.
Learn more about the VRC’s semiannual exhibits, viewable online and in Sutton 3.128, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5.pm, by watching the video posted on YouTube.
Learn how to access the VRC’s collection in ARTstor by watching the video posted on YouTube.
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art, allowing artists to post material themselves. Including video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature, the Database of Virtual Art provides a unique resource that assimilates the needs of the field. The ever-expanding collection combines immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic artworks with relevant links to exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. This research-oriented site has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions, and endeavors to extend its services to the preservation of virtual art.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has launched a Beta version of Search the Collections taking its online collection from 55,000 object records to over a million. Records have been taken from the V&A’s existing collection, and are in dynamic state of process with new information being added over time. As work on the site continues, the V&A plans to incorporate crowd sourcing, an API, saved searches and additional linking.
UPDIG has published guidelines for the management of digital images to help establish best practices for photographers, designers and printers. The information is very tech-heavy but informative and the organization maintains a resource list to help you navigate through the treacherous waters of color management, metadata, software, color calibration, file formats, file delivery, web color, and work flow.
DocMorph is a free conversion tools that can convert more than 50 different types of files into different formats. With the online version, a user can convert individual files into PDF, TIFF, or text. MyMorph software, which you can download to your desktop, also allows one to migrate many files simultaneously.
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