AIC Digital Image Repository (aka AIC Digimage)
Adventism in China provides an online repository of digitized images of historic photos relating to the history of Adventists in China. The repository, called AIC DIR may be accessed from anywhere around the world. For noncommercial use, the images are free provided that you properly acknowledge the source: Adventism in China Digital Image Repository: www.adventisminchina.org.
Location of the AIC DIR (or AIC Digimage):
The main AIC Digital Image Repository is currently hosted by Yahoo FLICKR1 and is located at: Click the above link to see the image repository. On this webpage, the photos are collected in sets. Each set consists of photos about an individual, an institution, or an entity of the church. Click on the set that you want to see and the photos in that set will be displayed to you. Photo credits All photos in this collection are properties of Adventism in China. If you use any digital images from the AIC DIR collection, please insert the following statement to acknowledge the source. While noncommercial uses are free, if your usage is incoming producing, you must write to AIC Director, at lobw@uwec.edu, to obtain official permission and pay the appropriate royalty.
Your inputs are welcome! These photos are for open access. You are cordially invited to contribute to this knowledge-base, by pointing out errors or adding new information to the description, e.g. names of people in photos, or when/where the photo was taken. We would love to hear from you. Please simply add a comment to the photos. How are the images organized? The photos or images are organized in a three-fold hierarchy:
At the top level, there are three (3) main collections: Individuals, Institutions, and Organization Entity. The "Individual" collection is further divided into three (3) sub-collections: Expatriates, Laypersons, and Nationals; the "Institutions" collection is further divided into 5 sub-collections: Churches, Colleges, Hospitals, Schools, and Others; the "Organization Entity" collection is further divided into three (3) sub-collections: Missions, Unions, and Divisions. Each of the sub-collections contains sets of photos. This hierarchy may be illustrated diagrammically as below:
To see the above structure in FLICKR, you need to (1) click the "YOU" button on the top level menu; (2) select the "Organize" command in the drop-down menu; and (3) select the "Sets & Collections" tab. The URL should show this address: If the Flickr page does not show the above tree structure, please click the tab "Sets & Collections" along the top, and the abve tree structure show be displaced. | Some recently added photos:  Photo 1: Professor J.N. Anderson and great granddaughter Caren Anderson Photo 2: A brochure describing the work of Adventist Church in different parts of China ca. 1925  Photo 3: Pastor and Mrs. Chan Lim Shang How to contribute to the AIC DIR? If you wish to contribute a photo (or photos) of historic significance to the AIC Digital Image Repository, you may email your photos to this email address: plan58place@photos.flickr.com and your photo(s) will be automatically added to the repository's photo-stream. Furthermore, you may
We request that you also send an email to the Project Director of "Adventism in China", lobw@uwec.edu, to alert him/her of you photo submission. Naturally you may also send the photo file(s) directly to the Project Director for him/her to upload the file(s) for you. The AIC Image Management Committee will review the photos submitted by you and will make a decision whether to retain your photos in the AIC DIR collection. If you have a question with respect to your photo, please contact the Chair of the AIC Image Management Committee for clarification. (Email address TBA.) We recommend that, where possible, you use the highest resolution photo files (best quality) when making submission. |