Hi Colin,
Although not primarily targeted at schools, or indeed, at delivering
images, our online catalogues provide access to around 20,000 medium
res images of objects, from the 100,000 object records or so (out of 1
million - groan...) we've currently transferred to computer catalogues:
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk
Several sets of objects have almost 100% image cover, including the art
works by Whistler (ca. 800), and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (ca. 1000) -
link to these sections at the above page also provide some additional
background resources. These two areas were the subject of specific
grants which enabled image capture, and upgrading of object records, and
the online delivery pages, to make them more useful to a wider audience,
including schools.
Apart from these two areas, the online catalogues simply provide data
"as is" - as the individual curators have recorded it for their parts of
the collections, but they still seem to be popular and useful, if far
from perfect at times!
All these pages are dynamically generated from our backend collections
database, and pick up all edditions or edits automatically, so there's
no separate maintainence overhead. All this is a free by-product of our
daily curating...
Cheers
John
Dr JW Faithfull
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Tel: 0141 330 4213
Fax: 0141 330 8001
Email: [log in to unmask]
Online catalogue: http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Colin Hynson
Sent: 27 July 2006 08:14
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Subject: Image Banks for Schools
Apologies for cross-posting
Dear all,
I have been commissioned to write an article on on-line image banks that
schools can access and use in the classroom. These need to be image
collections where schools have permission to copy for classroom use only
and without infringing copyright at all.
I already have some good websites and CD-ROMs but I am on the look-out
for some good museum/gallery/library/archive websites or CD-ROMs that
have image collections that pupils can use in their own work.
All the best,
Colin Hynson
T: 01603 479463
M: 07776 121172
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