BSpace Images Overview. 2 Who are we? Product Manager Adam Hochman Developers John King Ray Davis User Interface Designer Daphne Ogle.

bSpace Images

Overview

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Who are we?

Product Manager

• Adam Hochman

Developers

• John King

• Ray Davis

User Interface Designer

• Daphne Ogle

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3 pillars of bSpace Images

Gather– Federated Search Across Institutional Collections and

Commercial Collections

Collect– Personal Collection for Teaching, Learning, and Research– Organize your images – Add images from various sources.

Share– Course collections– Adhoc collections– Searching colleagues’ personal collections

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Progress

• “Migration Phase”– July

• Coming up Soon: “Personal Collections”– July through January

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Agile Approach

• Phase based project. • Focus on specific key-path scenarios per phase.• Development iterations appropriate for the chosen

scenario.  (3 week chunks)• Each developer has a defined amount of working

hours each week.  • Each week, the team will meet for a "reality check"

meeting to review our current time estimates and scope. 

• A ten minute stand up meeting will also take place each week. 

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Version 1.0

Version 1.0 will satisfy “baseline” features

• Personal Collections

• Course Collections

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Where to Start?

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Other Systems on Campus….

• ETS’ Course Gallery

• Luna Insight

• ARTstor

• Institutional Collections

• Visual Resource Collections

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Sweet Spot

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Know thy User!

• User Centered instead of Product Centered

• Who are your users?

• What are their needs and goals?

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NarrativeEileen does not see herself as a "techie" and finds it amusing when her other colleagues comment on her advanced abilities.  In many ways, she still feels like a beginner…

Goals•Spend time on activities that support her research and writing. •Decrease barriers between her students and the content •Inspire students to consider Art History as an intellectual pursuit •Easy access to relevant images. •Stay Organized

Eileen OtrovskyArt Historian“resourceful adapter”

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– 66% of faculty interviewed primarily find digital resources from their own digital collections. 

– 68% of faculty interviewed maintain or

gather their own digital collections. – 80% of faculty interviewed identified

"help gathering, organizing, and maintaining digital materials" as a primary support need.

Why Personal Collections?

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Reality Bites

• Eastman Kodak Co., the principal US manufacturer of slide projectors, had ceased manufacturing of slide projectors in 2004.

• Analog Slides are deteriorating. Art History has had to throw away an increasing amount of slides.

• Hard drives crash, DVDs and CDs degrade!

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Current Solutions

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Contact Me

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