Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
Title | Year(s) | Field | Description |
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Amiens Choral Tour | Architecture, Music | In support of the exploration of the intersection of humanities disciplines, the Media Center has augmented our virtual reality tour of Amiens to include a choral performance captured from multiple locations in the cathedral. |
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Art Humanities | 2014 - 2015 | Europe, North America | All materials from the original Masterpieces of Western Art website are now hosted on the Columbia College Core Office's website for greater consistency with the other Core classes. |
Art Humanities Teaching Resources | Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Europe, North America | This companion site to Art Humanities serves as a repository for instructor resources and briefings. |
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Asian Art Humanities | 2002 - 2003 | East Asia | Course monograph with links to Courseworks, Mnemosyne, CLIO, and other Media Center sites. |
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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Illuminating Art History: Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant | 2022 - 2024 | Art History, Slides, Photograph | A two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation enabled the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology's Lantern Slide Collection. |
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. |
Medieval Millennium | 1999 - 2000 | Architecture, Sculpture, Europe | Early course monograph created for a class and Metropolitan Museum exhibit of the same name. |
Mnemosyne | Image Database | Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources. |
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The American Southwest | 2013 - 2014 | Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, North America | Photographed in New Mexico and Arizona, this collection features a range of art and architecture, from pre-Columbian Native American settlements and Spanish Colonial mission churches to Modern Navajo architecture and contemporary Southwestern art. |