Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium
Monday 23 November 2015, 9.30 - 17.30
Free, booking required - book here<https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=5943>.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/conference/unboxing-archive-how-tate-transforming-access-our-artistic-heritage
The Archives & Access<http://www.tate.org.uk/node/275985> digitisation project draws on the world's largest archive of British Art - the Tate Archive - and brings it together online with Tate's art collection, giving unprecedented worldwide access to original materials. This has been made possible through a £1.9 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
As the project moves into the final stage project team members and collaborators will be participating in a day-long conference to share knowledge, experience, and invite discussion. The conference will explore approaches to digitisation processes - from funding to online features, conservation to rights clearance, preservation to publishing - and will conclude with a panel discussion and audience Q&A.
Poster sessions will also be held in the adjacent Duffield Room, and tours of Tate Archive and the project's digitisation suite will be running during lunch (numbers for the tours are strictly limited and must be booked in advance - email Sophie Risner [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to request a place).
Full programme coming soon.
About the digitisation project
With 52,000 pieces digitised from a selection of artists' archives, Tate's online visitors can now search, browse and make links between archive items and collection works. In addition the project has resulted in the creation of new digital resources, such as the interactive Albums<http://www.tate.org.uk/node/344241> feature, the online crowdsourcing transcription tool AnnoTate<https://anno.tate.org.uk/#/> (produced in collaboration with Zooniverse) and video learning resource 'Animating the Archives<http://www.tate.org.uk/node/277911>' which brings to life some of the processes, practices and stories behind the artists' lives and working contexts. A volunteer programme welcomes engagement from Preservation Volunteers<http://www.tate.org.uk/node/341693> and Archive Explorers<http://www.tate.org.uk/node/345871>, whilst an associated learning programme enables new audiences to engage with these materials in partnership with cultural and social organisations across five regions of Britain: South Wales; Liverpool and Merseyside; Tyne and Wear; Margate and Greater London.
Finally, the Archives & Access project includes the creation of new dedicated learning and public gallery spaces<http://www.tate.org.uk/node/245655> at Tate Britain, featuring a Digital Learning Studio, and the Archive Gallery, the first permanent gallery at Tate dedicated to displaying library and archive items, as well as interactive digital versions of artists' sketchbooks.
Project progress has been documented on Tate's blog channel<http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/search?f%5B0%5D=im_vid_49%3A1945&solrsort=is_end_date%20asc%2C%20is_start_date%20asc%2C%20is_published_date%20desc>.
Hannah Barton
Project Co-ordinator
Transforming Tate Britain:
Buildings, Archives, Access
Library and Archive
Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
020 7887 8839
Please see the Project's Webpage<http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/transforming-tate-britain-archives-access>, Blog<http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/search?f%5b%5d=im_vid_31:6285&solrsort=is_end_date%20asc,%20is_start_date%20asc,%20is_published_date%20desc> and Video Series<http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/archive-access-project-animating-archives> for information about the project.
www.tate.org.uk<http://www.tate.org.uk/>
Please note that any information sent, received or held by Tate may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Please note that any information sent, received or held by Tate may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
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