Jeffrey Trzeciak
Associate Dean
Wayne State University
Matthew Martin
Digital Projects Librarian
Wayne State University
Shawn McCann
Web Librarian
Wayne State University
The reliance on digital resources for instruction is a trend that is well documented and familiar to most who are involved in teaching and related professions. The availability and diversity of such resources continues to expand as demand for their use in instructional settings increases. Enabling the development and use of such resources by disparate groups (students, faculty, and staff) with disparate needs is a daunting task when considering even the simplest of objects (negatives, photographs, slides, etc). Historical cultural artifacts, which tend to be complex three-dimensional objects, have different requirements and necessitate a different planning process. Enabling the effective use of two-dimensional digital surrogates representing three-dimensional museum objects will inevitably be challenging for the instructional designer. Undertaking such a project will require complex planning and development tasks that place the user at the center of the process. Recognizing the need for collaboration, partner institutions, libraries and museums from metropolitan Detroit, have focused on creating resources that are not only research quality, but also sustainable, scalable, and national models for web-accessible collections. This briefing will highlight a few such collections.
There are several digitization projects featuring three dimensional objects from local museums. Three such projects include:
Digital Dress: 200 years of Urban Style
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/geninfo/units/lcms/dls/grants/ddgrant.php
Herman Miller Consortium Collection
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=hmcc
Social History as Studied Through the Development of Toys in Detroit
http://itlab.coe.wayne.edu/jtrzeciak/toys/
