Ignatian Commons photo album project

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A project has been set up to capture, distribute, and explain images from Jesuit institutions that convey the essence of Catholic and Jesuit mission and identity. You are invited to contribute to this project. To view pages already created from this project, click here. To read Wikipedia's introduction to the basic concepts underlying a wiki, click here.

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Goal of the project

The goal of this project is to use digital photographs and other images integrated with information in the Ignatian wiki to explain the history, meaning, and symbolism of Catholic and Jesuit traditions. The images along with explanations of their meaning and symbolism should help students, faculty, staff, parishioners, and others associated with Jesuit institutions understand and appreciate the message, history, and traditions of Catholicism in general and Ignatian Spirituality in particular.

Scope of the project

Locations: Jesuit institutions (churches, colleges and universities, retreat centers, missions, etc.). The initial focus is on the United States, but images from Jesuit locations outside of the United States are also welcome. While selected images from other locations can be included for comparison or to illustrate specific points, the intent is not to include extensive collections of images from non-Jesuit institutions (e.g., Benedictine retreat centers, Church buildings not associated with the Jesuits).

Types of content: It is appropriate to include photographs of stained glass windows, buildings, statues, altars, banners, and related items that are used artistically to convey Catholic and Jesuit identity. The intent is not to focus extensively on paintings and other types of two dimensional artwork. Intellectual property law is more complex for artistic images than for buildings and court rulings on copyright have taken different standards for photographs of two dimensional artistic creations (such as paintings) than for photographs of three dimensional artistic creations (such as statues and sculptures). Artistic images created before 1923 in the United States are generally in the public domain. For more information on these issues, start with Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ and follow their links to other sites that discuss copyright issues of artistic images.


Background

The project was initiated in John Workman in 2002 and initially consisted of photographs of St. John’s church at Creighton University in Omaha, organized in a digital photo album distributed by CD. It was extended during Dr. Workman’s sabbatical at Boston College as a fellow at the Jesuit Institute to include photographs of St. Ignatius Church, St. Mary’s Chapel, and buildings at Boston College.


Media for distribution

The current plan is to publish an annual CD or DVD with higher quality images organized into a photo album with titles and brief explanations along with links for each image to this wiki. This wiki will then have lower quality images, more detailed explanations that can be edited, and links to other Internet resources.

There are three reasons for distributing the content in this dual format – bandwidth, permanence, and licensing. Downloading high quality images over the internet can be relatively slow, particularly in comparison with retrieving images from a CD, DVD, or hard drive. An annual published edition allows for a more permanent record than a continually evolving wiki. Finally, a published DVD allows photographers to have more control over distribution of their images. For example, a professional photographer might take a 10 MB raw image and retain all rights to this image, but allow internet publication of a low quality image (e.g., 150KB in low quality JPEG) that is freely licensed under GFDL and provide a somewhat better quality image (e.g., 400 KB) for the DVD that is copyrighted and that has some protection against redistribution. To find out how to obtain a current version of the CD or DVD, click here.


Work to be done

  • Have volunteers take digital photographs at Jesuit institutions that are uploaded to the Jesuit wiki. To prevent duplication of effort, it is suggested that people who plan to systematically take photographs at given institutions indicate the work is in progress and provide a link to your talk page.
  • Have people knowledgeable about Catholic and Jesuit history, art, and/or symbolism provide textual explanations of the images and links to related images both in the Ignatian wiki as well as in Wikipedia or elsewhere on the Internet.


Participants


Jesuit Institutions where work is underway


U.S. Jesuit Colleges and Universities not yet started

If you start work at one of these institutions, edit this page and copy the name of the institution to the heading "Jesuit Institutions where work is underway" and indicate your name and put a link to your user page so others can contact you if they want. This is to prevent duplication of effort.

U.S. Jesuit High Schools not yet started

If you start work at one of these institutions, edit this page and copy the name of the institution to the heading "Jesuit Institutions where work is underway" and indicate your name and put a link to your user page so others can contact you if they want. This is to prevent duplication of effort.

U.S. Jesuit Parishes not yet started

If you start work at one of these institutions, edit this page and copy the name of the institution to the heading "Jesuit Institutions where work is underway" and indicate your name and put a link to your user page so others can contact you if they want. This is to prevent duplication of effort.

Resources

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