The goal of the Caprina™ Project is to make images available over the network, with enhanced functions of providing support for student learning. The Caprina™ Project has expanded significantly in concept and extent this year. While it began in September of 1992 as a joint effort between Academic Information Technology Services and Art History Department, many other departments have expressed interest in the ability for students to study and review high-quality color images via the computers in WAM labs: Anthropology, Architecture, Business and Management, East Asian Languages and Hebrew (Chinese), Human Development, Horticulture (Landscape Architecture), and American Studies.
The image collection under Caprina™ expanded from 2200 to over 7000 images. Most of these have been copied from 74 Kodak Photo-CD discs. A few (12) were scanned directly from negatives. These images are stored in bit-mapped format on two 2.0GB disk drives on the ATT_Theater Novell server. Two copies of each image are saved: the 128x192-pixel thumbnail and the 512x768-pixel size. Although the images on the Photo-CD discs have 24-bit color, it is reduced to 8-bit color using color dithering because most campus computers can only display 8-bit color. The average image, after cropping, is about 300KB.
The locally developed software interface to the images has been continuously improved to provide greater convenience and flexibility, providing an excellent environment for users of the WAM labs.
Caprina™ has also been extended beyond the classroom in four ways: