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Meet Pressbooks, Dragan Gill, Jenna Azar
Meet Pressbooks, Dragan Gill, Jenna Azar
Open Textbook Initiative
Want to create and share your own teaching and learning materials online and in print? Adapt or author open textbooks? Pressbooks is an online publishing tool that lets you distribute materials in ten formats, including print. It’s perfect for sharing reports, lab manuals, anthologies and reading collections accessibly. This workshop will introduce you to the platform’s features and get you started with your RIC account.
Digital Commons As An Educational Tool, John Kresten Jesperesen
Digital Commons As An Educational Tool, John Kresten Jesperesen
Faculty Publications
This paper explores the educational use of an Institutional Repository at Rhode Island College. The focus is on selected units of our College's Digital Commons and the students who have helped to make it a reality. The Chet Smolski Collection, comprising an Image Gallery and a table for Op-Ed texts, is joined by relational portals that are not yet operative but approaching partial functionality. We claim that there has been real educational benefit for the students by using them to help construct an IR. Our educational approach of letting students teach each other can be of value to other Colleges …
The Problems Of Subject Access To Visual Materials, John K. Jespersen, Heather P. Jespersen
The Problems Of Subject Access To Visual Materials, John K. Jespersen, Heather P. Jespersen
Faculty Publications
This article discussed the problem of giving subject access to works of art. We survey both concept-based and content-based access by computers and by index/catalogers respectively, as well as issues of interoperability, database and indexer consistency and cataloging standards. The authors, both of whom are trained art historians, question attempts to mystify fine art subject matter by the creation of clever library science systems that are executed by the naive. Only when trained art historians and knowledgeable catalogers are finally responsible for providing subject access to works of art, will true interoperability and consistency happen.