Date and Location TBA, Spring 2025
This seminar provides an overview of critical components authors are responsible for when publishing with images. Notably, it will offer a timely discussion of new requirements to prepare alt-text for images in books or articles that will be made available in digital formats, including e-books, according to an EU rule coming into force in Summer 2025. The seminar will offer:
- An overview of fair use, copyright, and permissions for publishing with images, whether your own photographs or from museums, books, and other sources
- An introduction to constructing effective image captions
- Guidance on new requirements regarding alt-text for images and practical advice on how to write quality alt-text
- Workflows and tools for managing and tracking these components
- Discussion of strategies for cultivating a citational practice and mobilizing the critical role captions, alt-text, permissions, and acknowledgement play in your project
With brief case study presentations by, tentatively:
- Jessica Landau, Assistant Instructional Professor, Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization
- Ellen Larson, Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
- Benjamin Saltzman, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago