Over the past year we’ve purchased no fewer than 6,263 new images from a couple of different vendors, including Scholars Resource (which represents several different vendors, including Saskia, Hartill Art Associates, and, recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Davis Art Images. Some of these went “live” on DUVAGA this winter, and we’re still working on getting data imported for many more (many thanks to Alex in CTL, who has devoted many hours to making this easier for us!).
This week I uploaded 239 images from Davis, including collections of Native American art and architecture, early photography, and some Art:21 images. Additionally, there are 205 new images from Scholars Resource, covering topics of design, some nineteenth-century painting, and a handful of works from the Denver Art Museum.
To Find New Images — For faculty, the easiest way to find the images we’ve just purchased is to go into the “Instructor Galleries” tab on the DUVAGA search page, and find my name. I’m making a gallery for each batch upload I do, and from there you’ll be able to copy the images into your own galleries. Of course the images are all searchable through the main page, but this is the easiest way to browse only the latest purchased images. Students can search “Visual Media” as the instructor from the main search page, and go to the end of the results for the newest images.
Please Note — When we purchase commercial images, they come with some basic metadata, which we import into ALORA, our cataloging tool. Sometimes the metadata isn’t quite right, so if you run across errors (in these records, or in general), please let me know about them. Each record is assigned a unique Reference ID number that starts with “ART” followed by a series of number. Just reference that number when you report your problems, and I’ll fix it.
Enjoy your images!
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