The Web Media Collective is a group of faculty, staff and students in Humanities, Arts and Architecture who are working together to find cost-effective ways to make knowledge created at Ohio State available across disciplines and to audiences beyond the University. It was the proposal process of a 1998 internal funding competition that brought us together as we realized we were struggling with the same kinds of problems. We committed to cutting through the red tape, sharing resources and making things work on a grassroots level.

The result: six digital media collections containing over 850,000 media assets that will reach over 20,000 students in 105 course sections annually.

• History Multimedia Database (Humanities)
• Arts & Sciences Media Manager (Humanities)
• Charles Csuri Archive (Arts)
• History of Art Visual Resources Library (Arts)
• Huntington Archive (Arts)
• Knowlton School of Architecture Digital Library (Engineering)
• Related project: Praise Poetry Video Database (Humanities)

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Every piece of media--books, TV programs, music, photographs, art, software, etc.--captures a particular society's knowledge and values in a form that can be passed on to future generations.

This project is aimed at preserving these 'knowledge artifacts' and making them accessible so that future generations can gain a deeper understanding of the human experience.

Core principle: Integrity In our server infrastructure, in our rights management, in our data models, in our collections, in our relationships with each other....integrity is our operating principle!