WFP 2008 Wednesday 8/13

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Wednesday, 8/13: Working with Images

Welcome and Overview of the Day (9:00 AM – 9:15 AM)

A time for questions and answers about the preceding day and the contents of the current day.

Scanning (9:15 AM – 10:30 AM)

Presenter: Weaver

Location: Information Commons

Break (10:30 AM – 10:45 AM)

Coffee and pastries will be available outside of the Microroom.

Basic Editing (10:45 AM – 12:00 PM)

Presenter: Burke

• Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Tools for Organizing and Presenting Images (1:30 PM – 2:45 PM)

Presenter: Landis

Abstract

We will introduce programs, both open and Dickinson created, that help with presenting and organizing image collections. Focus will be on understanding image quality and organizing using metadata standards or user created tags.

Outcomes

• Understanding online options for image organization and presentation
• Understanding metadata standards
• Understanding good tagging guidelines
• Understanding the social options for some programs
• Understanding how to use Flickr Creative Commons Search

Outline

• ICON
  • History of how it was built, initial need on campus
  • List it's capabilities
  • Discuss Metadata and good practices in categorizing collections
  • List key faculty collections incorporated in it
  • Walk through basics of searching, viewing and downloading
  • Walk through slideshow search and creation
  • Overview of Admin panel
  • Discuss open and campus only collections
    • Quick overview of copyright

• Flickr
  • Overview of searching
  • Overview of uploading
  • Discuss tagging
  • Flickr Mashups
    • Mapping projects/geotagging
  • Overview of Flickr Groups
    • Tell a story in 5 frames

• Picasa
  • Show basics of uploading images to picasaweb
  • Dicuss Tagging
  • Overview of searching
  • Overview of creating web slideshow
  • Discuss Picasa image editor for PCs

Image Resources (3:00 PM – 4:15PM)

Presenter: Wardecker

• ARTstor
• Google Images