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Projecting America is a major digital initiative supported by the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. The aim of this broad-based collaboration is to provide the Cornell community with access to 10,000 digital images representing American visual and material culture of all periods. An inter-college faculty committee will organize image selection with a particular view toward resources unique to Cornell University. These include faculty private collections and Cornell archival repositories. The project will incorporate to deliver superior digital image retrieval functionality on the desktop as well as in the classroom.
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The Cornell
Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) is a cross-disciplinary
team established to explore the use of emerging technologies for providing
greater access to cultural and scientific collections on campus. IMAG/CU, a current CIDC project in which the Knight Visual Resources Facility is actively involved, is a shared university image catalog that includes the collections of the H.F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Rare and Manuscripts collection, the History of Art Slide collection, as well as the collection of the Knight Visual Resources Facility. CIDC is developing and administering the website using the museum collection management system Multi Mimsy 2000. |
| The staff of the Knight Visual Resources Facility is creating an online cataloging manual for use with the Multi Mimsy cataloging software. Utopia is a database of images of European Renaissance art, primarily from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is a joint project of Cornell's History of Art Department in the College of Arts and Sciences; the Knight Visual Resources Facility in the College of Architecure, Art & Planning; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; the Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Cornell University Library. |  |
