Digital Art History Summer Institutes

The Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities are sponsoring four summer institutes on the digital humanities during 2014. These events will be hosted at Harvard, UCLA, and George Mason University. Admission for all of the programs is on a competitive basis. All participants will receive a stipend covering housing and travel expenses. Applications are due by March 1st and March 15th, 2014.

Rebuilding the Portfolio: DH for Art Historians

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History in New Media, George Mason University 

July 7-18, 2014

The curriculum will include building digital collections, working with textual and non-textual sources, visualization, data mining, network analysis, and spatial history. They are specifically seeking applications from individuals who have had very limited or no training in using digital methods and tools, or in computing. 

Doing Digital History

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History in New Media, George Mason University
August 4-15, 2014

The program includes text and data mining, data visualization,  spatial history, and visual mapping. They are seeking applications from faculty, public historians, archivists, librarians, museum professionals, and independent scholars specializing in American history, who have had very limited or no training in using digital methods and tools, or in computing, and who lack a supportive digital community at their home institutions.


Beyond the Digitized Slide Library
University of California, Los Angeles
July 28-August 6, 2014

Participants will learn about debates and key concepts in the digital humanities and gain hands-on experience with tools and techniques for art historical research (including metadata basics, data visualization, network graphs, and digital mapping).


Beautiful Data: Telling Stories About Art with Open Collections 

metaLAB (at) Harvard

June 16-June 27, 2014

The Beautiful Data program focuses on using digitized collections for art historical scholarship. Participants will be introduced to concepts and skills necessary to make use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial description and exhibition practice, digital publication, and data-driven, object-oriented teaching. The institute is intended for art historians, scholars of visual culture, and museum professionals at all career stages.

Batch Importer for PPT 2011 on Macs

I've created an automator file for batch importing folders of jpgs to PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Instead of loading your jpgs to your PPT 1-by-1, the tool will load all of the images in 1 step. The automated process also resizes the images to screen-sized within the PPT slides. You may download the file here.

See this 30-second video tutorial to learn how to use the tool:
http://screencast.com/t/LCiVLfOE

Art.sy Education Offers 25,000+ Open-Access Images

Art.sy Education has partnered with over 650 museums, galleries and nonprofits to provide access to their collections from one portal. Over half of the Art.sy images are downloadable on an open-access basis and may be used without restriction. Look for images on their site with a 'download image' button. See the Art.sy site for more information.

Grant Opportunities for Digital Humanities Projects

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced start-up grants for digital humanities projects. The NEH program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities.

The deadline for proposals is September 11, 2014 for projects beginning May 2015. See their website for more information.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute

The Getty Foundation has provided funding for a digital humanities summer institute for art historians to be held at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in 2014. The institute aims to engage art historians, graduate students, and scholars from varied backgrounds, including curators, art librarians and archivists.

The institute is now accepting applications. For more information and to apply, see their website.

ARTstor Announces Image Group Download

ARTstor has added a new tool for group image downloads. You may already be familiar with their existing tool for batch downloading directly into PowerPoint, but now they have launched a new tool for batch downloading groups of images as jpgs.

You may download groups of 150 images or fewer with one click. These files will download as a zip file containing jpgs. Look for this icon when logged into your ARTstor account and in an image group:

For more information and a short instructional video created by ARTstor, click here.

Getty Announces 'Open Content' Program

The Paul J. Getty Museum announces their new 'Open Content' Program. All of the Getty's public domain objects, totalling around 4,600, are available for download as high-resolution images and are free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose. They will be releasing more images over time. You can browse the images currently available from this link. You may read more about their program here.

Update 11/10/2013: The Getty Open Content Program now has around 10,000 images available for unrestricted use.