Web Media Collective Member Projects

The Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching

Database: (OSU Only) http://historymultimedia.osu.edu/
Website: http://goldbergprogram.osu.edu/gp_mmdb.cfm

The History Multimedia Database contains over 3,000 images, recorded speeches, animated maps, and video clips that cover a broad range of historical topics and periods.

The Charles Csuri Archive

Database & Website: http://csuri.wmc.ohio-state.edu/

Charles Csuri is an artist, a professor, but most importantly, a pioneer in the field of computer art and animation. In the mid-1960s, Csuri began experimenting with computers as an artistic medium and has made many important contributions to the field. In fact, one of Charles Csuri's computer films is in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art

Database: http://huntington.wmc.ohio-state.edu/public/
Website: http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/

The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar (Burma). Works range from approximately 2500 B.C.E. to the present, and documentation includes contemporary religious activities in various parts of Asia.

Praise Poetry Video Database

Database: http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/praisepoetryproject/prototype/
Website: http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/praisepoetry

In 1999, the Department of African American and African Studies at OSU was awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to help faculty teach the oral tradition, Praise Poetry, with video recordings of performances rather than use text in translation. A team of faculty and staff traveled to South Africa, hired a film crew, and went to a variety of locations to film these important historical and cultural, Praise Poetry, performances.

Knowlton School of Architecture Digital Library


Database & Website: http://ksa.wmc.ohio-state.edu/

The Digital Library's state-of-the-art digital image collections support the Architecture, Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning curricula in the Knowlton School. Through online resources, faculty and students are able to access high quality images and multimedia files for use in research, study or course work. The collections consist of submissions from faculty, students, local architects and community groups. The OSU community may view all collections, with a portion of these collections are available to the public.

The History of Art Visual Resources Library


Database: (OSU Only) http://vrl.wmc.ohio-state.edu/secure/
Website: http://www.history-of-art.osu.edu/vrl/index.html

The Visual Resources Library (VRL) is comprised of both analog and digital image collections--including 450,000 slides, 18,000 digital images, study prints, 400 VHS tapes, and 150 16mm films--representing the history of world art, archeology, and architecture from prehistoric through contemporary periods. The VRL is also responsible for designing and maintaining OSIRIS which allows History of Art faculty to post study images, in digital format, to a secure site for OSU students to access.

The Colleges of Arts & Sciences Media Manager

Website: https://mediamanager.osu.edu

The Media Manager is a tool that helps you organize, share and present your digital media files. The Media Manager makes it easy to:

  1. share digital files on the web quickly without programming -- everything from data sets to digital images, video clips to 3D animations and more
  2. password protect those digital files and share them with students, colleagues, partners around the world
  3. re-use the same digital files in different contexts -- web site, PowerPoint, off-line slide show, zip archive, etc.
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.

If you have difficulty accessing any portion of this site due to incompatibility with adaptive technology, or if you need the information in an alternative format, please contact Allen Coleman at coleman.153@osu.edu