Technical
- Finished mounting first distribution on UVA MESL web site
- Loaded revised data sets
- Made further refinements to search interface
Outreach and Support
- Mailed local MESL brochure and AHIP brochure to 775 Arts and Sciences
faculty members
- Held three open instructional sessions for faculty, staff and
students
- Supported the use of MESL images in "African Art and the Virtual
Museum", a course taught by Benjamin Ray of the Religious Studies
Department
Special Events
- Hosted events on March 29-30, with presentations of the UVAMESL site,
remarks by Jennifer Trant, AHIP Imaging Initiative, and a presentation of
student work using MESL images--audiences included UVA administrators,
faculty, upper level management from the Library and ITC and the Council
for the Arts, a fund raising group constituted by the Development Office
Work in Progress
- Working with group of art history graduate students to articulate
parameters for browse functionality to be added to web interface
- Students in the Digital Image Center redesigning portions of the UVA
MESL web site to make it more accessible to users
- Exploring feasibility of passing queries to AHIP vocabulary control
products to expand search parameters
Support of Project-Wide Activities
Content Selection
Hosted content selection web site for 1996 distribution
MESL World Wide Web Development
Participated in design of project web site, Santa Monica, January 1996
Miscellaneous Activities
With Howard Besser, wrote paper on the technical and logistical issues
raised by the MESL project and their implications for future expansion of
the MESL model, to be presented at EVA '96, London, July 1996
Last Modified: Thursday, 12-Sep-1996 18:32:09 EDT
