Life on the other side of the pond: VR Activity in Europe, a UK perspective pt1

Catherine Worrall
Slide Library Co-ordinator, University College Falmouth

Professional Groups – (ACADI) Association of Curators of Art & Design Images & (JISC) Joint Information Systems Committee Digital Media
National Projects – (VADS) Visual Arts Data Service – Look Here!
Local Project – The Image Space
Outline

ACADI – Association of Curators of Art and Design Images
History
Formed in 1993, by a small group of art and design slide librarians
To highlight and establish important visual resources roles in the higher education sector
Grown to include institutions from Teeside to Falmouth
“ ACADI helped us to define ourselves, our collections and our
roles as professionals within art and design higher education.”
Jenny Godfrey

Objectives
Promote the status of visual resources curators
Highlight the importance of image collections
Mutual support and exchange of information
Establish standards for slide collections
Development of training

ACADI membership
Bi-annual meetings
ACADI list – a forum which facilitates discussion and sharing ideas
ACADI blog – http://acadi.wordpress.com
Minutes from meetings
Case studies of projects
Members profiles
Digitisation standards such as metadata schemas and copyright
Wider public access to discussion topics, and links to image resources and information

JISC – (Joint Information Systems Committee) Digital Media
What is it?
Provides advice, guidance and training on how to:
Create digital media resources (including still images, moving images and sound)
Deliver digital media resources to support teaching, learning and research
Manage digitization projects

History and Funding
Formally known as TASI – Technical Advisory Service for Images
Funded by UK higher and further education funding councils
Mission
“ To support the UK’s education sector in achieving greater digitisation and use of digital media resources (still images, moving images and sound resources) for teaching, learning and research. We aim to provide world-class leadership in the provision of information, advice, guidance and training. ”
JISC Digital Media website

Services
Website – www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk
Online advice documents
Helpdesk service
Training workshops
Consultancy
Mailing list
Blog

VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) – Look Here!
Project background
JISC Digitisation Conference report in 2007 identified key areas for the
future of the digitisation community:
An emphasis on user engagement
Create a connected mass of digitised content
Develop business models
Promote sustainability
Promote collaboration
High quality content for the education sector

VADS – (Visual Arts Data Service) Look Here!
With an investment of £2.1 million, JISC funded 11 projects in 2009, as part of
their e-content programme, one of which is VADS- Look Here!
Project lead : VADS at the University of the Creative Arts in Farnham
Project partners :
The Arts University College Bournemouth
University College Falmouth
University of the Arts London
University of Brighton
University of Southampton

VADS – (Visual Arts Data Service) Look Here!
Aims & Objectives
Develop a digitisation model for the knitting collections at Southampton
Use model as a template for other projects
Meet regularly to share information
Create a community of expertise
Use VADS hosting service
Explore models for sustainability of VADS
Further information
http://vads.ac.uk/projects/look-here/

VADS – (Visual Arts Data Service) Look Here! Knitted elephants from the Montse Stanley Collection, courtesy of the knitting Collections at the University of Southampton Library Knitted beaded purse from the Montse Stanley Collection, courtesy of the Knitting Collections at the University of Southampton Library

University College Falmouth The Image Space
What is it?
Project to create, manage and provide access to unique digital image
collections for learning, teaching and research at UCF
Background & history
JISC repository project call out
Falmouth interested in setting up a digital repository
Keen to link this with digital image requirements

Project plan
Research standards, including metadata schemas
Research database platforms – Luna Insight or MDID (Madison Digital Image Database)
Copyright
Project set-up
Decided on MDID 2, free open-source platform
VRA Core 4 metadata schema
Controlled vocabularies: Getty vocabularies, Library of Congress & The Tate Glossary
Copyright agreement forms based on VADS

Collections
Cornwall Artists and Designers – unique collection of donated slides
Degree and MA Shows – unique collection of student work
History of Art and Design – Courtauld Colour Slide Scheme & now images from Scholars Resource
Richard Cook ‘Layered White’ 2007 Kate Daubney ‘Mina Mini goes camping and other stories’ 2009 Beryl Cook ‘Hungry Trio’ ca. 2000

The Future
Develop local artists collection
Awaiting DACS copyright licence
Broaden the collections to support more courses
Share our collections with a wider audience

And finally...
Changing roles
Teaching sessions: ARTstor, Bridgeman & The Image Space
Advice on image resources
Copyright advice
Managing unique collections
Metadata specialist
Image resources on the library website
Member of wider professional community to facilitate knowledge sharing

Life on the other side of the pond: VR Activity in Europe, a UK perspective pt1

by VRC, History of Art Dept, University of Oxford on Apr 26, 2010

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