IDEAS - Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies

If you have a single image you would like to submit for inclusion in IDEAS, or you have a group of images that do not have a unique provenance or a unifying theme, you can submit them using the form below. If you have a group of images and are not sure if you should submit them individually or as a collection, visit the collection submission page to find out how IDEAS defines a collection.

Your Name Enter in the form "lastname, firstname".

METADATA
Title If your image already has an established title (e.g., an image of a work of art) use that title. Otherwise, give your image a brief title that is descriptive of what is in the image. Exclude initial articles ("a," "an," and "the"), and don't use ending punctuation (such as a period). Capitalize only the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns (like a normal English sentence).

Description Describe what is in the image. At least provide basic information about what is pictured, but feel free to create a lengthy description,containing keywords that will help users of IDEAS find your image when searching.
Country For most images, this will be the country pictured in the image. For images of things, however, use the country associated with the content of the image (e.g., a Japanese-made kimono that is in the collection of a US college should have the country "Japan.").

Historical Period The time period that the content of the image is from. (e.g., 19th Century, Modern, Ming Dynasty).

Date of Content The date associated with what is pictured in the image, e.g., the date an art object was created, a postcard printed, etc. Use the format YYYY-MM-DD, and enter as much as is known (e.g., 2002, 2002-01, and 2002-01-27 are all valid dates). To show that a date is approximate, follow it with a question mark, as 1890?

Artist/Creator The name of the person who created the image. Enter names in the form "lastname, firstname".

Photographer/Recorder The name of the person who took the photograph. Enter names in the form "lastname, firstname".

Subject Choose as many terms from the IDEAS topic list as are necessary to describe the image. Most images will need several topics to fully describe the content of the image. Click the link or ? to view the IDEAS topic list.

Associated Places Enter names of states, prefectures, cities, neighborhoods, etc. as found in the TGN that describe the intellectual content of the resource.

Source The original source of the digital resource. (e.g., "Clark, Timothy. One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. Trumbull, CT: Weatherhill, 2001, p. 82" for a scan of an image from that book).

Date Photographed/Recorded The date the photographer tripped the shutter, the date an audio engineer recorded a performance, etc. Use the format YYYY-MM-DD, and enter as much as is known (e.g., 2002, 2002-01, and 2002-01-27 are all valid dates). To show that a date is approximate, follow it with a question mark, as 1890?

Date Digital The date the resource became digital. Use the format YYYY-MM-DD, and enter as much as is known (e.g., 2002, 2002-01, and 2002-01-27 are all valid dates). To show that a date is approximate, follow it with a question mark, as 1890?

RELEASE FORM The undersigned author (the “Author”) hereby certifies as follows: 1. The Author owns the copyright to: 2. The Consortium desires to license the Materials for educational purposes to the IDEAS Project, a collaboration between Colorado College, Earlham College, Lake Forest College, and St Olaf College, funded through a grant from the Midwest Instructional Technology Center. 3. The Author hereby grants to the Consortium an exclusive, worldwide and perpetual right to incorporate the Materials into the IDEAS Project and to use the Materials as set forth in the Master Agreement, including but not limited to printing, downloading, searching, viewing, browsing and copying of the Materials for research, educational and scholarly purposes. 4. The Author warrants to the Consortium that its license of the Materials to IDEAS Project for purposes contemplated in the Master Agreement will not infringe the copyright or any other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any person and the Materials contain nothing that is libelous or in violation of any rights of privacy or that is otherwise contrary to law.
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