This project was a one-year extension of a previously completed project funded by Reed's grant from the Mellon Foundation. As such, it overlaps to some extent my work of the previous year. My 1998 work under this extension also provided the basis for a new grant from the Northwest Academic Computer Consortium.

During 1998 I took several hundred photographs and had them scanned for a major expansion of the Getty Architecture web site and for a web site for the temporary exhibition of the work of Robert Davidson, which I organized for the Cooley Art Gallery at Reed College. I have received permission from the artist to post images of his art on the web, an exceptional accommodation for a contemporary artist of his stature. Having surveyed web sites of temporary art exhibitions world wide, it seems to me quite possible to post a much higher quality and much more extensive web site than has previously been done for any temporary exhibition. Just as the exhibition was used extensively by grade, high school, and college classes, I expect the web site to have significant educational use, and I intend to leave this site on the web semi-permanently to test the benefits of such a resource.

Several other kinds of web sites for art and architecture have been projected and funded for one year by the Northwest Academic Computer Consortium.

Other activities related to the extension of my Mellon project during 1998 include the following:

I was consulted regarding digital image projects by Douglas Fix, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, and by Thomas Wieting, Professor of Mathematics. The web site, "Architecture of the Getty Center," which I posted on the World Wide Web in December 1997, at the time of the opening of the Getty Center, has been used at several architectural schools and I have received occasional inquiries from students using the web site to write papers in their courses. I have also received numerous enthusiastic email comments from users, including faculty at other institutions, indicating that the Getty Architecture web site is serving as an impetus for higher quality image and thus educational uses not previously recognized.

I was invited to present examples of my digital image assignments and to discuss uses of digital images at the annual meeting of the western chapter of the Visual Resources Association, which met at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, and to the art department and visual resources staff at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

An article I wrote in 1997, "Images as Evidence in Art History and Related Disciplines," was republished in 1998 in the VRA Bulletin, vol.25, no.1 (Spring 1998), pp, 58-66.

A letter I wrote to the editor of the scholarly journal of the professional society of artists and art historians in North America was published in the Art Bulletin, "Digital Culture and Art History: High Quality Images Are Available Now," vol. lxxx, no.1 (March 1998), p. 193.

I was invited by the Digital Library Federation to serve on a committee of college and university teachers and visual resource specialists considering means of providing images of art and architecture on the Internet free of charge for educational purposes. The committee met for the first time in New York, January 1999.

On April 23, 1998, I gave a fifty minute paper at the international Museums & the Web Conference on Toronto. My paper was titled "The Potential of Museum Web Sites for Art Conservation and Historic Preservation."

In preparation for this paper, I spent nearly two months researching all types of uses of the Internet, and most of my new ideas about types of web sites that would benefit college and university teaching are a result of this research. It has been my experience that very few faculty members in academic subject matter areas (outside of those in computer and information departments) have anything like a comprehensive view of potential uses. Understandably, most have explored one or two areas that are immediately beneficial to their teaching and research.

I was invited to present a paper on uses of digital images for the technological study of art at the annual meeting of the College Art Association, which will take place February 1999 in Los Angeles.