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Dear Mia,

Thanks. I’ll discuss this people. I suspect it won’t be easy to change this on the current iteration, but I’ll look into the possibilities. In particular the exhibitions in the Collection are single works comprising a sequence of images. The priority has been to enable movement between the sequences rather than the individual images, but, as said, we’ll have a look.

Thanks again and best wishes,

Graeme

On 3 Oct 2016, at 15:30, Mia R <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Congratulations - it looks great! I think many list members can appreciate the amount of work that goes into launching a new site.

One thought about your images - I'd love to share some of the photos and illustrations in the Collection and Visual Culture sections, but they don't seem to have their own url. If it were possible to provide a direct link for each collection item, then we could send others directly to the specific image we were looking at, rather than just to the gallery of images.

Cheers, Mia

Sent from my handheld computing device

On 3 Oct 2016, at 09:50, Graeme Rigby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear One & All,

At Amber Film & Photography Collective, as well as reopening Side Gallery after extensive HLF-supported redevelopment, we have just soft-launched our new website: http://www.amber-online.com. 

It opens up access to both the AmberSide Collection, rooted in a 48 year documentary engagement with working class & marginalised communities in NE England, and, in a new Visual Culture section, an HE slide library that was developed as an idiosyncratic business in the 1970s. There’s a huge amount more we will be adding over there coming couple of years - photography, video, slide sets, audio and documents - but, inevitable glitches aside, it’s up and running. 

The collection, including the slide library, is a network of narratives and the website has been developed to encourage and enable meaningful journeys through them. Films developed for cinema / television are represented by clips and trailers with pay to stream options, although there is a freeview film of the month. Video developed for community or trade union distribution, along with footage from unfinished Amber projects is free to view. Alongside a number of films and videos, there is also free access to original interviews and documentary footage. Whichever body of work you are looking at, you are offered thumbnail links to Related Works. There is also an Education section which showcases our learning & participation projects in schools and in the community, drawing on the inspiration of works from the collection to encourage practical documentary video/photography/exhibition skills.

There’s a lot of tweaking, amplification of metadata, SEO and population work to go, but it may be interesting to anybody working in similar territory.

Best wishes,

Graeme Rigby
Amber Film & Photography Collective
Newcastle upon Tyne

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