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More than just a pretty interface: three recent projects at the Visual Arts Data Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Amy Robinson
Amy Robinson*
Affiliation:
(Look-Here!, Spot the Difference, Zandra Rhodes), University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS, UK
*
Email: arobinson@ucreative.ac.uk
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Abstract

The establishment of the national image repository hosted by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) at the University for the Creative Arts was an early pioneering effort in the 1990s to provide shared online access and preservation for digitised visual arts collections. Over the 15 years since the VADS image repository was first launched, and as the internet has rapidly expanded and transformed, the VADS team has also sought project funding to explore and address new themes and issues that have emerged within the arts education sector. Three of these recent collaborative endeavours are detailed in this article: the Kultur II Group which is supporting the development of institutional repositories in the arts; the Spot the Difference project which is researching the emergence and extent of a perceived ‘copy and paste’ culture; and the Look-Here! project, which has worked with ten partners to foster digitisation skills and strategies in the arts.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , 2012 , pp. 28 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2012

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