Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
Title | Year(s) | Field | Description |
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Africa and African Art | 2005 - 2006 | Africa | Course monograph with links to Mnemosyne image portfolios and external resources |
Columbia Image Bank on Artstor | Image Database | The Art History Teaching Collection, compiled by the Media Center for Art History from scans of slides and photographs, is accessible to anyone on Columbia's campus or with a Columbia University UNI. |
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Delight in Design: Silver for the Raj | 2008 - 2009 | Decorative Arts, Asia | Delight in Design was created as an online resource for an exhibition of South Asian silver at the Wallach Gallery in 2008, curated by Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art. |
Luna | Image Database | Before Artstor, Luna hosted the Art History Teaching Collection images. |
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MCID (MDID) | 2011 - 2012 | Image Database | The Media Center Image Database (MCID) hosts the Department of Art History's teaching collections, special collections, and original photography of globally significant art and architecture. Fieldwork highlights include Istanbul, Iraq, Rome, Chicago, The American Southwest, and Japan. |
MCID Metadata Restructuring | 2024 - 2026 | Image Database | With over 110,000 new individual images added to MCID in the last couple years from digitization projects alone, MCID's reliance on collections as a primary organizational focus hinders findability of these important new resources. The Media Center has initiated an MCID restructuring project, designed to build connections across collections and increase findability of media of all types. This project is still in process and will be announced formally when available. |
Mnemosyne | Image Database | Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources. |
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Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe | 2010 - 2011 | Decorative Arts, Europe | The Media Center produced the digital monograph for the 2010-11 exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and the British Museum. |