The sixth “Faculty Institute: Teaching with Technology” will be offered for UCSB faculty members September 15-17, 2009. The Institute is a joint effort of Instructional Development, Instructional Computing, and L&S Information Technology, and will consist of three all-day series of presentations and hands-on workshops. On Thursday Jackie Spafford will be leading a demonstration called “Incorporating…
ARTstor has created a new feature that allows users to save details to image groups. This new icon (save to image group) is located at the lower right of the Image Viewer and will save the image (in whatever zoomed and/or rotated position you are viewing it) to either a new or an existing image…
The Musée du Louvre has launched an English language version of Atlas, its online database that currently contains over 22,000 digital images and records (with the goal of making all 35,000 works on permanent display available). Many images include details or multiple views. This English version was made possible through the American Friends of the…
ARTstor’s collection of QTVR videos continues to grow – there are now more than 1,300, covering many sites and monuments worldwide. To find them, search on QTVR (optional: add a location to the search, e.g. QTVR Paris). Under each thumbnail is a highlighted “QTVR” label – click on this and the file will open in…
Last week we got a demonstration of The Wall at the CalIT2 center at UC San Diego by Professor Lev Manovich and post-doctoral student Jeremy Douglass. As stated on their website, they believe that “a systematic use of large-scale computational analysis and interactive visualization of cultural data sets and data streams will become a major…
This week NASA and ASTER (Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) released a new and more complete digital topographic map of Earth. Best of all, it is available online to users everywhere at no cost. NASA’s press release is here, with links to downloading the ASTER global digital elevation model