image request forms

Please see Getting Started to review criteria for image collection building.

The use of Image Request Forms is limited to faculty who are building teaching collections in Insight and/or the Department of Art Slide Collection. Contact Elisa Lanzi, Director, 318 Imaging Center, for information about building collections in the Insight Image Database.

Completed Image Request Forms must be delivered with accompanying materials to the Imaging Center front desk.

Download Request Form
>> MS Word Version
>> PDF Version

MS Word Instructions
- Save the Image Request Form to your own computer and open up in MSWORD.
- If you need to make more room for an image title you can put your mouse on the bottom line of the row, hold it down and move the line to accommodate more text (the cursor looks like an up-down arrow when you do this.)
- To add rows to the form, put your cursor in the last cell of the last row and hit tab. That will create another row and start a page 2.

image vendors

Archivision
http://www.archivision.com/
The Archivision Digital Archive is a growing collection of digital images selected from an archive of over 100,000 slides. The Digital Archive was created specifically for in-depth study and analysis by students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, art history, art, and design. The collection is also ideal as a source from which to select images for teaching the history of architecture or landscape architecture, and archaeology and the humanities as well.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html
Not comprehensive but instead places emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture reflecting the author/photographer’s own research and teaching interests.

Art on File
http://www.artonfile.com/html/35mm.lasso
Provides digital images of the built environment, especially public architecture and sculpture, parks and landscape design .

Scholar’s Resource
http://www.scholarsresource.com/
Scholars Resource is a marketplace of high quality digital images for teaching art history. Powered by Saskia Ltd. and incorporating Saskia’s proven ability to distribute digital images, Scholars Resource provides the infrastructure needed to offer digital images and slides from multiple vendors to customers through this website in one central marketplace.  Saskia Ltd. and Davis Art Images are the first to combine their digital archives in Scholars Resource. Digital Images from Hartill Art Associates  will follow in the spring of 2005.  This extensive resource of nearly 50,000 images provides comprehensive coverage of works of art essential for teaching  Ancient Art, Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Non-Western, Early Christian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Nineteenth Century, Impressionism, American Art, Art of the Americas and Contemporary Art and Architecture.

Davis Art Images
http://www.davis-art.com/artimages/digital.asp
The Davis Art Image collection, while covering the entire range of art history from Ancient to Contemporary, is particularly strong in American Art, Art of the Americas, and Contemporary Art and Architecture.

Harthill Art Associates
http://www3.sympatico.ca/archimages/
Provides in-depth coverage of architecture, sculpture and the decorative arts from Prehistoric to Contemporary.

Universal Art Images UCS
http://www.universalcolorslide.com/
UCS now provides digital images individually and in sets of their extensive slide holdings, which cover the breadth of world art history.

snapdragon

The SnapDragon: Image Collection Management System is providing a platform for several collaborative projects on the East Coast. SnapDragon is a tool for managing workflow and descriptive cataloging of image assets.  It was developed in 2002 by a Smith College team from the Imaging Center and Educational Technology Services. In 2006, the Smith College group and the University of Virginia Libraries agreed to partner on updating and upgrading SnapDragon in order to better facilitate sharing of descriptive image metadata across collaborative environments. The result is SnapDragon II, a FileMaker Pro version 9 application built with assistance from Dedication Technologies, a database development and consulting firm. SnapDragon II is currently in the beta test phase and targeted for initial implementation/migration at Smith College in January 2008. The University of Virginia anticipates implementation in March 2008. Two other regional associates, Williams College and University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will implement SnapDragon II in 2008. 

The SnapDragon II data structure is based on the VRA Core Categories, version 4.0 and follows Cataloging Cultural Objects as a guide for best practice in cataloging and authority control.  Hierarchical views of “Works” and “Authorities” help to fully describe cultural materials at different levels of cataloging. The SnapDragon II  authority files are available to multiple fields in the “Work” and “Image” records in order to avoid redundancy (e.g., Personal and Corporate Name Authority, Geographic Place Names, etc.). The hierarchical structure allows for additional authority files to be developed to support other taxonomies and controlled vocabularies.

On the workflow side SnapDragon II manages acquisitions, production, recon, de-accessioning, and other activities for multiple media image collections. For example, the asset management section is designed to accommodate images acquisitions that may not require cataloging. SnapDragon tracks workflow for the digitization process. SnapDragon II is designed as a metadata repository - it assumes that end users will use other public discovery and presentation tools. The FMP SnapDragon tables can be configured for any number of export venues using XML or Excel spreadsheets. Smith College is taking advantage of FileMakerPros’s capability to create a dynamic connection to the SQL end of Luna Insight.    

A pilot project for shared cataloging is currently taking place in SnapDragon I. The Smith College Imaging Center and the University of Massachusetts Image Collection Library staff are co-cataloging the Antequam collection of art of the ancient Mediterranean for an ARTstor hosted collection. The Antequam project began when three faculty members from University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College wanted to share personal collections. In addition to faculty images, the Antequam project will include: student images of Gallo-Roman monuments in the context of contemporary land-use; an art collection from a Classics department; and contemporary drawings of ancient gardens. The Antequam content will be available to the Five Colleges community in Luna Insight and ARTstor. Another outcome of the project is that Smith College and the University of Massachusetts are discussing strategies for sharing a primary database. Our ultimate goal is to continue to build copyright-clear content for Five Colleges teaching that is not available on the Web or by license

Currently SnapDragon is being used solely for the above-mentioned collaborative projects. For more information please contact Elisa Lanzi elanzi@email.smith.edu at Smith College.