Dear Suzanne
AHDS has lost its AHRC and JISC funding from March 2008, so we managed to slip under the wire. We are assured that current projects' data will continue to be accessible through AHDS, and we hope NIRP's data (which will be expanded over the coming years if we can raise more funds) will be available through other portals as well.
Andrew.
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From: S Keene <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:25:16 +0100
Subject: Re: Academic researchers and museums
This is an exemplary project. so obvious that researchers need to
know where the stuff they are interested in is to be found. I thought
the AHDS had lost its funding? It continues?
all best
suzanne
On 11 Sep 2007, at 12:43, Andrew Greg wrote:
> Members may like to know, or be reminded, about the National
> Inventory Research Project. For the past three years NIRP has
> employed some 25 art historians to work with curators in 180
> collections, large and small, across the U.K. researching and
> compiling the first phase of the project's database of pre-1900
> Continental European oil paintings in UK public collections. Funded
> by the AHRC, the Getty Foundation and the Kress Foundation, 8,000
> records will go online on AHDS Visual Arts in November 2007.
>
> This has been a remarkable collaboration between academic art
> historians and curators, and I am immensely grateful for the
> enthusiasm and support given to the project by hundreds of hard-
> pressed curators and other staff across the UK. We have held four
> seminars in Glasgow and London at which examples of the immediate
> benefits of such partnerships have been movingly presented. New
> exhibitions, displays, and conservation projects have resulted from
> the work. We believe the database will encourage further research
> into Museum collections and their use in exhibitions and enhance
> the value of collections within the museums sector.
>
> I will be talking about the project at the Museums Association
> Conference in Glasgw in October in the 'Collections-Related
> Knowledge' strand.
>
> Andrew Greg
>
> Andrew Greg
> Project Director
> National Inventory Research Project
> Dept of History of Art
> University of Glasgow
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> Rachel Cockett
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>
> Not true!
> I've provided Sarah (off list) with several examples of our work with
> university researchers; including a JISC funded project to create
> an online
> resource specifically for an academic research audience.
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/
> raphaelite.aspx
>
> Regards,
> Rachel
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> System Manager - Collection Management
> Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
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> The answer is, sadly, they don't want to encourage greater use!
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> best wishes
> Suzanne
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> On 5 Sep 2007, at 16:37, Sarah McNicol wrote:
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>> Hello
>>
>> I work for Evidence Base at the University of Central England.
>> We've just started a study on behalf of the Research Information
>> Network (www.rin.ac.uk) investigating finding aids/discovery
>> services to help researchers working in universities to find
>> artefacts from museums to use in their research.
>>
>> In my background research for this I've obviously come across a lot
>> of examples of museums working with the public, schools etc to
>> promote greater engagement with and use of their collections, but
>> I'm struggling to find many examples of museums working
>> specifically to encourage greater use of their collections by
>> university researchers.
>>
>> I would be very grateful for any suggestions of museums or projects
>> which might be worth looking it. Please email me
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>> Many thanks
>>
>> Sarah
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>> Sarah McNicol
>> Evidence Base
>> University of Central England
>> 84 Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 2SU
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>> Tel: +44 121 331 6891
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