Archive Interventions is an Art History and Visual Studies PhD project and blog at the University of Manchester, looking at slide collections as valuable archives.
This coincides with an increasing interest across the Art Libraries Society UK membership list in the value of archiving slide collections and not disposing of them as apparently obsolete.
It will be interesting to track this project and see what can be learned from it.
Thanks to the ACADI list for raising awareness of this project:
FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) is the conceptual basis for RDA (Resource
Description and Access). With the Library of Congress and the British
Library working
towards full RDA implementation by 31 March 2013 and
the hybrid environment of AACR2 and RDA already with us, it is
essential to understand the thinking behind RDA. So if your WEMI (Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item)
is wobbly or your entities and their relationships are a bit muddled
this is the event for you.
Organised by ARLIS Cataloguing and Classification Committee, we are very pleased to
announce that the halfday workshop will be led by Anne Welsh, lecturer in
the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), with examples drawn from art documentation.
The event will take place from 1.00pm – 5.00pm on Tuesday
18 December 2012 at the University of East London, Docklands Campus,
with an opportunity for networking with fellow attendees after the event
over a glass of wine or soft drink.
The National Portrait Gallery now provides free downloads of a large range of images from its Collection for academic and non-commercial projects through a new web-site facility. Over 53,000 low-resolution images will now be available free of charge to non-commercial users through a standard ‘Creative Commons’ licence and over 87,000 high-resolution images will also be available free of charge for academic use through the Gallery’s own licences.
Since 1997 over 100,000 portraits from the Gallery’s Collection, including paintings, photographs, drawings, prints and sculptures have been digitised. The Gallery was among the first UK institutions to publish images online in a searchable database, and licensing of these images has raised some £5.5 million which has been re-invested in the Gallery’s work. Digitisation of the Collection is part of realising the Gallery’s mission ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture, and ... to promote the appreciation and understanding of portraiture in all media’.
The new licensing process has been automated through the Gallery’s website but each transaction is individually agreed or denied by Gallery staff, to prevent potential abuse of the system and preserve the important revenue achieved from commercial image licensing. In order to help cover the cost and to highlight the value for beneficiaries of this new facility, users are invited to donate in support of the Gallery’s work. Not all of the portraits in the Collections have yet been scanned, and some are subject to copyright restrictions, so charges and restrictions will continue to apply to accessing some images, as well as to the commercial use of all images. Funds raised by image licensing activity will continue to contribute towards further digitisation.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE opening hours: Saturday-Wednesday: 10am – 6pm (Gallery closure commences at 5.50pm) Late Opening: Thursday, Fridays:10am - 9pm (Gallery closure commences at 8.50pm) Recorded information: 020 7312 2463 General information: 020 7306 0055 Website: www.npg.org.uk
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