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
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> 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
>> ([log in to unmask]) if you have any ideas.
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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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