Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Planning the types of resources you need for your forthcoming essays.
In addition to creating a spider map of the ideas and themes you wish to discuss in your essay you may consider making a similar diagram for the types of resources you may need to draw on for your essay: do you need a combination of online and hard copy resources? What types of online resources do you need? how will you integrate these into your project work? Give yourself enough time to consider the resources most appropriate to the essay topic (review previous posting).
Integrating the Web into your study
In many cases, the Web cannot replace the authority of a book, dictionary entry or a journal article. However, there are ways in which the Web can enhance your understanding of a discipline. Here are a few suggestions:
Virtual tours of buildings can give you an idea of how buildings function in three-dimensions and how decoration and images operate as a complete programme, see the following examples:
Ravenna Monuments Dynamic Images this website provides 360 degree dynamic panoramas of the historic early Christian basilicas of Ravenna, Italy. All images are zoom-enabled. Manipulate the images by dragging your cursor over them.
ItalyGuides offers you a rich collection of more than 200 virtual panoramas of Italy's most famous city monuments. These can be explored 360° and each of them comes with text written by history of art professionals. ItalyGuides.it also provide free audio guides download (for iPod or mp3), video in high definition (HDTV), google maps and more than 3000 photos in the photo galleries. The site includes tours of Florence, Naples, Rome and Venice.
Maps and Timelines can enhance your understanding of the political geography of countries or regions. For example, Italy was not a unified country at the time of the Renaissance, but was fractured into different regional and political divisions see map.
World map and Timeline from the Metmuseum website.
Architectural plans, elevations and reconstructions give you an idea how buildings were constructed and how they changed over time, broadly speaking, black or shaded areas in an architectural plan denote solid walls while white areas denote open space see:
Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture the glossary is a searchable database of illustrated architectural terms and styles. This is illustrated with plans, elevations and reconstruction drawings.
Architecture of Renaissance Italy essay from the Metmuseum website. This essay has embedded images which you can magnify through zoom tools. Many galleries are now scanning their collections and hosting them online as open access high resolution images. Zoom tools allow you to take a close look at paintings or manuscripts and help in understanding how the object was made.
Virtual tours of buildings can give you an idea of how buildings function in three-dimensions and how decoration and images operate as a complete programme, see the following examples:
Ravenna Monuments Dynamic Images this website provides 360 degree dynamic panoramas of the historic early Christian basilicas of Ravenna, Italy. All images are zoom-enabled. Manipulate the images by dragging your cursor over them.
ItalyGuides offers you a rich collection of more than 200 virtual panoramas of Italy's most famous city monuments. These can be explored 360° and each of them comes with text written by history of art professionals. ItalyGuides.it also provide free audio guides download (for iPod or mp3), video in high definition (HDTV), google maps and more than 3000 photos in the photo galleries. The site includes tours of Florence, Naples, Rome and Venice.
Maps and Timelines can enhance your understanding of the political geography of countries or regions. For example, Italy was not a unified country at the time of the Renaissance, but was fractured into different regional and political divisions see map.
World map and Timeline from the Metmuseum website.
Architectural plans, elevations and reconstructions give you an idea how buildings were constructed and how they changed over time, broadly speaking, black or shaded areas in an architectural plan denote solid walls while white areas denote open space see:
Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture the glossary is a searchable database of illustrated architectural terms and styles. This is illustrated with plans, elevations and reconstruction drawings.
Architecture of Renaissance Italy essay from the Metmuseum website. This essay has embedded images which you can magnify through zoom tools. Many galleries are now scanning their collections and hosting them online as open access high resolution images. Zoom tools allow you to take a close look at paintings or manuscripts and help in understanding how the object was made.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Referencing Internet sources
Looking for images? Four basic questions to ask yourself
1. What do I need the image for? (private study, essay, presentation)
2. Where is the best quality image to be found? (galleries and image databases)
3. Which websites have most trustworthy? (institutional websites such as galleries, museums or universities are to be recommended)
4. Do I have permission to use the image? (Check the terms and conditions of use on the host site)
Resizing images for your essay or project
The image properties are measured in pixels (picture elements per inch) for example 64 x 48 is a small image, 640 x 480 is a medium size image and 6400 x 4800 is a large image. Increasing the size of a small digital image will result in a blurry or pixelated image. It is easier to reduce the size of a larger digital image than to increase a smaller one.
Note that all images you find online are not free to use so check the terms and conditions of use on the site. If you are allowed to use that image for private study or for your project work it is important to reference it in much the same way as you would reference a textual source.
Referencing images in your essay or project
From the Web
artist: title of work. date; gallery or museum, city [online source]. [date of site] URL: site address found in address bar [date of site access]. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, a string of code making up the website address, for example, http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome [World Wide Web search interface]. [2009] URL: http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg [15 Oct 2009].
From a text
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome (in, followed by the name of the author, date of publication, page and/or illustration number). Remember to include the citation as a reference in your bibliography.
1. What do I need the image for? (private study, essay, presentation)
2. Where is the best quality image to be found? (galleries and image databases)
3. Which websites have most trustworthy? (institutional websites such as galleries, museums or universities are to be recommended)
4. Do I have permission to use the image? (Check the terms and conditions of use on the host site)
Resizing images for your essay or project
The image properties are measured in pixels (picture elements per inch) for example 64 x 48 is a small image, 640 x 480 is a medium size image and 6400 x 4800 is a large image. Increasing the size of a small digital image will result in a blurry or pixelated image. It is easier to reduce the size of a larger digital image than to increase a smaller one.
Note that all images you find online are not free to use so check the terms and conditions of use on the site. If you are allowed to use that image for private study or for your project work it is important to reference it in much the same way as you would reference a textual source.
Referencing images in your essay or project
From the Web
artist: title of work. date; gallery or museum, city [online source]. [date of site] URL: site address found in address bar [date of site access]. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, a string of code making up the website address, for example, http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome [World Wide Web search interface]. [2009] URL: http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg [15 Oct 2009].
From a text
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome (in, followed by the name of the author, date of publication, page and/or illustration number). Remember to include the citation as a reference in your bibliography.
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