SCRAN stands for Scottish Cultural resources Access Network.
SCRAN is also a Scots dialect word: as a verb it means to be on the
lookout for things to appropriate, and as a noun it means nourishment -
both meanings relevant to SCRAN!
Bruce
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Janice Yeadon wrote:
> Bruce
> A brilliant project but why on earth call it SCRAN?
> Regards
> Janice
>
>
> At 09:14 06/04/97 +0100, you wrote:
> >There being 1000 days till the millennium, I thought I'd just remind
> >elibbers about a project they may find of interest to which that date is
> >particularly important
> >
> >SCRAN is a millennial project to build a multimedia resource base on the
> >INTERNET for the teaching, learning and celebration of history and
> >material culture in Scotland. It is not trivial in scale, proposing to
> >spend some 15 Million pounds sterling over five years: half from the
> >Millennium Commission, and the rest from a range of galleries, museums,
> >archives and other institutions in the form of cash, in-kind contributions
> >and, crucially, intellectual property rights.
> >
> >SCRAN is in a position to fund projects to create digital multimedia
> >resources from existing Art, Architecture and Artefacts. In exchange,
> >institutions grant to SCRAN and its members a non-exclusive license to
> >exploit these resources for educational purposes. By the Millennium, the
> >resource base should contain some 1.5 million text records of real world
> >objects, plus 100,000 multimedia representations of a selection of these.
> >
> >More info on SCRAN at;
> >www.scran.ac.uk
> >
> >
> Janice Yeadon Telephone 0171 594 8840
> Sub Librarian Collection Development Fax 0171 584 3763
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> Imperial College
> London SW7 2AZ
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