DOME COLLECTIONS - ESL p. 4

 

 

Collecting Digital Visualizations for Teaching in Engineering & Science

Content

A collection of visualizations used in teaching MIT undergraduate engineering and science is proposed.  Content would include contributed and commercially available visualizations and short moving image clips (digital and digitized).  Examples include the fluid mechanics film clips digitized for use in Barker; faculty and student-generated visualizations available through OCW and on course web sites; commercial, licensed visualizations and films; and open content selected for value to MIT.  Modules could also include materials from the Edgerton Center.

Size

Ongoing:  hundreds with potential growth to several thousands.

Age

Range from 1940's to present

Source

Barker Library; commercial sources; open sources.

Rights

Variety of licensed, owned, and public domain

Anticipated Audience

MIT faculty and students in engineering and sciences.

Benefits

Students entering MIT today have grown up in a new media age: much of the information they use is not only digital, but increasingly it's also multi-media:  digital audio, digital video, simulations, animations, games, digital images. Where in the past MIT Libraries met a modest demand for "films" - seminars and lectures on VHS - today's boxes of VHS tapes on library shelves are no way to meet the MIT students' demand for new media.  Selection, description, contextualization would all aid discovery, add value and promote the use of visualizations as powerful aids in teaching and learning at MIT.

Format Risk

TBD

Format

Various

Metadata

tbd; some MARC records exist.

ESL Contact(s)

 

Funding

TBD

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