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

1. Bi-annual meetings

2. ACADI list – a forum which facilitates discussion and sharing ideas

3. 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:

1. An emphasis on user engagement

2. Create a connected mass of digitised content

3. Develop business models

4. Promote sustainability

5. Promote collaboration

6. 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


Aims & Objectives

1. Develop a digitisation model for the knitting collections at Southampton

2. Use model as a template for other projects

3. Meet regularly to share information

4. Create a community of expertise

5. Use VADS hosting service

6. Explore models for sustainability of VADS

Further informationhttp://vads.ac.uk/projects/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

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