Fast Facts: OhioLINK Digital Media Center (DMC)

What is the Digital Media Center (DMC)?

The Digital Media Center archives and provides access to a variety of multimedia material. It contains 3,000+ digital educational films and documentaries, including foreign language instruction videos; thousands of electronic images, including images of famous works of art from museums worldwide; sounds; historical documents, including historic Ohio city maps; satellite images of Ohio; and more. Several collections are accessible to anyone worldwide. Materials in the DMC may be shown in class, utilized in course materials, or used to enhance papers, projects and presentations.

History

1999 – The DMC launched with art images from two collections, Saskia and AMICO (now known as the Art Collection).

Access

Several collections are accessible to anyone worldwide via the Internet. Some licensed collections are only available to current students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions.

Statistics

Users downloaded 553,970 multimedia items from the DMC and the AP Photo Archive from March 2008 through February 2009.
The were 82,019 downloads/streams of the videos in the Educational Films & Documentaries collection from March 2008 through February 2009.

DMC Collections

In the area of art & architecture, the DMC includes:

The Art Collection - contains high-quality, digital images of works of art from museums around the world. Originally known as the AMICO collection, it was one of the two original collections available when the DMC launched in 1999
Saskia Art History Images - digital art images with a special emphasis on the core images required for teaching the history of Western Art. The collection includes titles from the textbooks Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Stokstad's History of Art, and Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art. This was one of two original collections available when the DMC launched in 1999.
Images from the Akron Art Museum* - includes works by Stieglitz, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Weegee. The collection was added to the DMC in 2001.
WPA Prints by Cleveland Artists* - high resolution scans of works of art by Cleveland artists, commissioned under the Works Progress Administration. The collection was contributed to the DMC in 2002 by Case Western Reserve University Library’s Special Collections.
Art & Architecture by the University of Cincinnati* - including works by Eisenman, Fellheimer & Wagner, Latrobe, Elizabeth Nourse, and Frank Lloyd Wright. This collection was added to the DMC in 2000.

Three multi-subject video collections are offered:

Educational Films & Documentaries - 2,200+ educational digital videos from the distributors Ambrose Video Publishing and Films for the Humanities and Sciences. The collection debuted in June 2003 with 380 videos.
Foreign Language Videos* - Foreign language video clips, produced by the ViewPoints Project of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium, in which native speakers of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German Russian, Spanish and Swahili elaborate about their culture, family, daily life and more. The collection debuted on the DMC in 2002.
Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations - 600 videos of physics experiments available for viewing and downloading. The collection debuted on the DMC in 2002.

There are numerous history & archives collections:

Wright Brothers Collection*, from Wright State University Libraries, documents the invention of the airplane, the lives of the Wright Family, and the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States. The collection debuted on the DMC in June 2001 with 300 photographs.
Sanborn Historic Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970. The maps were added to the DMC in April 2001.
Lake Erie's Yesterdays* is a collection of historic photographs of northwestern Ohio, from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, documenting the local history of the Erie Islands and Lake Erie's western basin. The Center began adding images from this collection to the DMC in February 2003.
Kent State Shootings Oral Histories* is a collection of recordings related to the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University. The 69 oral histories include many eyewitness accounts of the event and its aftermath, contributed by people who were students, faculty members, and City of Kent residents at the time, as well as an account by an Ohio National Guardsman. This collection went live on the DMC in May 2005.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Images* - a collection of documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. The collection includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady, letters and speeches of President Lincoln and other presidents, and other historic letters, documents, and pictures. It launched on the DMC in 2003.
E. W. Scripps Papers*, is a collection of letters and photos from the Scripps Manuscript Collection at the Ohio University Libraries. The collection debuted on the DMC in 2001.
Historic Maps of Akron & Summit County, Ohio* were contributed to the DMC by the University of Akron Libraries in 2004.
Mayan Archaeology Photographs* show Mayan architecture and scenery from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and serves as a resource for the exploration of the various and complex interrelationships within Mayan society. The images were contributed by the Anthropology Department at Oberlin College in 2001.
Greek and Latin Inscriptions* is a collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia. The squeezes were contributed by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University in 2002.

There are five science collections in the DMC:

Geology Digital Photographs* is a collection of photos depicting natural features and the human impact on environments around the world from the Department of Geology at Oberlin College. The collection debuted on the DMC in July 2004.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Forestry Image Collection* includes 5000 forestry images from the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center at The Ohio State University. The collection was added to the DMC in August 2004.
Reproductive Physiology Animations* is a collection of learning modules on human reproduction from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. It was added to the DMC in December 2004. The modules have animation, and some have sound.
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Digital Animal Sounds* contains digitized recordings of animal sounds from the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at The Ohio State University. The recordings debuted on the DMC in August 2003.
Dolphin Embryo Digitized Slides* are scanned images of histological sections, captured using a digital camera connected to a microscope. Embryos were made available by the Los Angeles County Museum and contributed by NEOUCOM's Digital Library of Dolphin Development (DLDD) in September 2004.

* Collection is freely available to anyone worldwide via the Internet.

Last Update: April 2009