[Insightl] Insight course support

[Karen Reardon]

For courses with stable content - for example a course on the City of New 
Haven - we record in the data record a value that ties all the images 
together - you can then easily search and pull together all images for 
this course - we then save them as a collection level group - for 
example, 'New Haven Images'. Faculty for this course were then interested in sorting 
images into neighborhood - so we note the neighborhood in the record and can 
query and create collection level groups easily.  We link to these image 
groups in several ways - both from within Insight and externally to it, 
so we use collection level groups not 'folder level' groups.  Of course as 
more images are added we can easily sort them into groups.

We also have faculty who would like images grouped by course week, so 
there is one group of images for the entire course - then individual 
groups for each week of lecture.

We have not created separate collections - there are issues that arise 
with viewing images from mulitiple collections (not available from the 
browser for instance) that make this not desirable from our viewpoint.  I 
also would not want to have to go through the process of creating 
individual collections for each supported course.

-Karen Reardon
Manager of Web, Workstation & Digital Consulting Services
Yale University Library

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 rlb179 at columbia.edu wrote:

> At Columbia we need to support a core curriculum course, Art
> Humanities. This course has a carefully controlled syllabus,
> contains a stable number of images (approximately 1700), and is
> taken by approximately 1200 undergraduates per academic year.
> 
> As it is in the pedagogical interests of the course to segregrate
> these images in Insight, we were wondering how best to handle this
> situation: create a new "Art Humanities" collection, create a single
> group for the entire course, or create a series of groups for each
> section of the syllabus?
> 
> How have experienced Insight users handled similiar situations?
> Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robbie Blitz
> 
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> Roberta Blitz
> Digital Collections Librarian
> Libraries Digital Program Division
> Butler Library
> Columbia University
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