Thursday, August 29
"I Have a Dream" speech and copyright, fair use
Some of you will remember our discussions of copyright and using movies, music etc. in multimedia projects. (You can search "copyright" in our blog and see past posts.) Yesterday's 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech has got some coverage regarding the fact that the speech is copyrighted and mostly cannot be used in entirety without paying licensing fees. One copyright lawyer wrote a column in the Washington Post exploring the issues. He discusses "fair use" and copyright cases and how they might relate to the speech.
Monday, August 19
Jumpstart your recording career for free with Audacity
Audacity is a powerful recording tool that is offered in the Student Multimedia Design Center.
For those who want to download it onto their own machines, it is an "open-source audio editor that offers excellent basic production capabilities for a very reasonable price: free."
If you have not had the opportunity to use the program, Jumpstart your recording career for free with Audacity offers a quick tutorial into the realm of Audacity.
For those who want to download it onto their own machines, it is an "open-source audio editor that offers excellent basic production capabilities for a very reasonable price: free."
If you have not had the opportunity to use the program, Jumpstart your recording career for free with Audacity offers a quick tutorial into the realm of Audacity.
Wednesday, August 14
Infographic Design Tips!
While looking around the internet for inspiration on my infographic project I found a great article that walks through the do's and don'ts of infographic design. There are a few good links inside the artile as well. I didn't know that Adobe Kuler existed until now!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/14/the-dos-and-donts-of-infographic-design/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/14/the-dos-and-donts-of-infographic-design/
Friday, August 9
Do It Right Or Do It Twice - "Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations" should save time
The Board of Directors of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) endorsed “Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations” at the 2013 American Library Association.annual conference.
The Recommendations were created to help libraries that are digitizing content to avoid having to digitize the same content again. "Institutions can feel secure that if an item has been digitized at, or above, these specifications, they can depend on it to continue to be viable in the future"
How can a library standard be relevant to Student Multimedia Design Center users? By following these guidelines, one can avoid having to re-digitized materials. For example, most of the Center's scanners default to 300 dpi, which captures text nicely, but 300 dpi is too grainy to show fine details in artwork or photos that are to be published. An image good enough for a small screen may not be acceptable for use in a poster, article, or book. This will be explained further in the October 14, 2013 Digitizing Old Formats: Photos and Videos workshop.
While larger file sizes require more storage space and bandwidth, files can sampled and reduced in size for use as web graphics. For the long haul, creating and saving appropriately high resolution digital files produces files that won't need to be recreated if the image is needed again later in a higher resolution version.
The Recommendations include File Naming Conventions for Digital Collections to help assign meaningful file names. This may be eye-opening for people who let their scanners and cameras name their image files and never change them.
The Recommendations were created to help libraries that are digitizing content to avoid having to digitize the same content again. "Institutions can feel secure that if an item has been digitized at, or above, these specifications, they can depend on it to continue to be viable in the future"
How can a library standard be relevant to Student Multimedia Design Center users? By following these guidelines, one can avoid having to re-digitized materials. For example, most of the Center's scanners default to 300 dpi, which captures text nicely, but 300 dpi is too grainy to show fine details in artwork or photos that are to be published. An image good enough for a small screen may not be acceptable for use in a poster, article, or book. This will be explained further in the October 14, 2013 Digitizing Old Formats: Photos and Videos workshop.
While larger file sizes require more storage space and bandwidth, files can sampled and reduced in size for use as web graphics. For the long haul, creating and saving appropriately high resolution digital files produces files that won't need to be recreated if the image is needed again later in a higher resolution version.
The Recommendations include File Naming Conventions for Digital Collections to help assign meaningful file names. This may be eye-opening for people who let their scanners and cameras name their image files and never change them.
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