Jamie Lausch, University of Michigan, Art Architecture and Engineering Library presentation from VRA 28, "Local Color: A Database of Art on Campus", from the closing plenary session "Collections of Distinction: Adding Value to the Online Community of Visual Resources"

1. Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s Campus Jamie Lausch University Library Associate University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

2. A Resource for the UM School of Art & Design and Beyond

3. Inspired by other projects at UM AAEL

4. At first, I was very ambitious…

5. The project eventually involved units across the UM Campus

6. I began adding images, focusing on tags identifying medium

7. I referenced established vocabularies when assigning tags

8. Each entry looks like this:

9. We are using Mlibrary Flickr settings, but these can easily be adjusted

10. The ultimate goal is to prepare the project for its new owners

11. Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s Campus Jamie Lausch University Library Associate University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library