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Subject: VADS launches new Website
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Dear All, (with apologies for any cross-postings)
The Visual Arts Data Service, provides, preserves & promotes
digital
resources for the visual arts community and are pleased to
announce
the launch of our new *Website* at: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk
The site has been completely redesigned to offer graphical
navigation
& other features. It also offers the following new content:
*2 new collections online*
*VADS first Guide to Good Practice: 'Creating Digital Resources for
the Visual Arts...'
*Enhanced user services facilities*
New Collections:
Other Educated Persons: Art in East London 1972-1999 - a web resource,
produced by Anne Baker, Artist & New Media explorer, that includes
digital video, images & transcribed interviews with the movers &
shakers from this vibrant late 20thC scene.
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/vads_catalogue/oep_description.html
Jacob Riis: Computer Aided Learning Package, (University of
Nottingham)
Providing a full interactive teaching program investigating
documentary photography and visual semantics through Riis studies of
turn of the 20thC New York.
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/vads_catalogue/jrcal_description.html
These 2 new collections fully illustrate the diverse range of
resources the VADS system provides to the learning, teaching &
research community. They provide cultural & theoretical insight into
subjects at either end of the 20th Century, from either side of the
atlantic and represent both the fine & applied arts. Furthermore this
is achieved through widely variant digital media.
Guide to Good Practice: 'Creating Digital Resources for the Visual
Arts: Standards & Good Practice':
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html
Co-authored with the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI
http://www.tasi.ac.uk), University of Bristol, the Guide highlights
examples of current practice in the creation of digital information in
the visual arts domain, and makes recommendations for good practice in
data creation, collection, description, delivery and preservation .
It also covers explicitly technical issues such as choice of data
format. The Guide draws upon published and unpublished material in
these areas in order to provide a working synthesis for the visual
arts.
Enhanced User Services Facilities
As VADS collections & services expand, we are seeking to address user
issues as directly as possible. The newly designed website is part of
this mission, allowing improved access to our information and training
resources. An example of this is the on-line delivery of
presentations from our outreach activities. As well as general
overviews of the Service they include specific training aids e.g. from
our copyright workshops:
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/training_advice/copyright.html
Future attractions on the site will include:
- On-line feedback forms
- News pages
- Data Creators Checklist
- VADS PICTIVA Project :'Promoting the Use of On-line Image
Collections in Learning & - Teaching in the Visual Arts'
*And a steady stream of cross-searchable new collections including:*
10 collections from the JISC Image Digitisation Initiative (JIDI
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/jidi/), totalling c25,000 images, these
will be:
London College of Fashion Archive
Spellman Collection of Music Covers
The Basic Design Collection (Bretton Hall)
The Halliwell Collection (Bretton Hall)
Design Council Archive
Design Council Slide Collection
Central St Martins College of Art and Design Museum Collection
African and Asian Visual Arts Archive
John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera (soap adverts & political
prints) Fawcett Library Suffragette Banners
Also:
Millais Gallery Archive, Southampton Institute
Poster Images from 'Going Graphic, 5th - 19th April 1998, Victoria and
Albert Museum' Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi pilot digitisation
Student degree show web-sites from:
Glasgow School of Art, University of Portsmouth Illustration 1998,
Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College
VADS Art Index to the Internet Library of Early Journals
We hope that you will gain benefit from the new site so please
bookmark it to keep abreast of our new on-line resources.
Dissemination of the VADS URL to interested parties is welcomed.
Should you wish to provide a link to the VADS site, please do so to
the homepage http://vads.ahds.ac.uk (For monitoring purposes we would
appreciate being informed of links; we may also wish to reciprocate
links.)
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*Catherine Grout*Visual Arts Data Service Project Manager*
**Surrey Institute of Art & Design**Farnham**Surrey**
****URL: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk *tel: 01252 892723****
Providing, preserving and promoting . . .
high quality digital resources for the visual arts
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