Web Media Collective
The Web Media Collective is a group of faculty, staff, and students in Humanities, Arts, and Architecture who are working together to find cost-effective ways to make knowledge created at Ohio State available across disciplines and to audiences beyond the university. It was the proposal process of a 1998 internal funding competition that brought us together as we realized we were struggling with the same kinds of problems. We committed to cutting through the red tape, sharing resources, and making things work on a grassroots level. The result: six digital media collections containing over 850,000 media assets that will reach over 20,000 students in 105 course sections annually.
Every piece of media—books, TV programs, music, photographs, art, software, etc.—captures a particular society's knowledge and values in a form that can be passed on to future generations. This project is aimed at preserving these “knowledge artifacts” and making them accessible so that future generations can gain a deeper understanding of the human experience.
Contact
The Web Media Collective project is part of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Technology Services Office. For more information, please contact Diane Dagefoerde, Director of Technology at (614) 247-7375 or dagefoerde.2@osu.edu.
