New toolkits for research data management in the visual arts

The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the University for the Creative Arts has launched toolkits resulting from the VADS4R project. This project delivered a series of workshops on research data management in the visual arts at the University for the Creative Arts, Glasgow School of Art and Falmouth University, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Over 186 postgraduates and researchers participated in the project from universities across the UK, exploring the nature of ‘research data’ in the visual arts and sharing their practice and tips for its effective management.

The CDS have launched the first in a series of online toolkits and videos introducing research data management in the visual arts. The tools are:

"How to avoid a data disaster":

https://xerte.ucreative.ac.uk/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=250

"Writing the AHRC Technical Plan":

https://xerte.ucreative.ac.uk/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=228

Amy Robinson of the CDS says: "We hope this will prove useful beyond the end of the project, and we would be really grateful to get your feedback and any suggestions whatsoever at the end of each toolkit (or by email)."

The CDS have also shared all the presentations and materials from the workshops on the project website at: http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk

UCA Research Online: http://research.ucreative.ac.uk

NGS Print Rooms, Libraries & Archives Open Weekends

Scottish National Gallery & Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

27 & 28 September 2014

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

11 & 12 October 2014

An opportunity to learn more about the Galleries’ superb Print Rooms, Libraries and Archives in a series of scheduled talks taking place within the Print Rooms and Libraries located at the Scottish National Gallery (The Mound), the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Belford Road) and in October at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Queen Street)..

Visit /https://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/events-calendar/ for more information.

Te Papa releases over 30,000 high resolution images for free

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has announced they have released over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in high resolution. 

You can search for and download them at Te Papa's Collections Online: http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/

17,000 images have no known copyright restrictions so are downloadable for any use, free of charge. Another 14,000 images are available under a Creative Commons licence:

CC BY-NC-ND http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

"We hope that by making these images available for re-use, we are empowering people to use images of the collection in teaching and learning, research, innovation and new forms of creativity."

 

Read more at Te Papa's blog:

http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/05/30/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections 

Visual arts open content news

77,000 new images released by the Getty via its Open Content Program:

The Getty Research Institute has just added more than 77,000 high-resolution images to the Open Content Program from two of its most often-used collections.

The largest part of the new open content release—more than 72,000 photographs—comes from the collection Foto Arte Minore: Max Hutzel photographs of art and architecture in Italy.  Foto Arte Minore represents the life’s work of photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911–1988), who photographed the art and architecture of Italy for 30 years. 

Also added to the Open Content Program are 4,930 images representing tapestries dating from the late 15th to the late 18th century that are in European and American collections.  

Learn more at: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/77000-images-of-tapestries-and-italian-monuments-join-open-content-program/ 
 
PLUS!


A new resource for History of Science and Natural Sciences:

Digital Special Collections, the image database of the Research Library at the American Museum of Natural History, New York:

On April 28, the American Museum of Natural History’s Research Library will open a rare window into the 145-year history of the Museum with the official launch of an online image database for Digital Special Collections featuring more than 7,000 archival images at http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/. Many have never before been seen by the public, including archival photographs, rare book illustrations, drawings, notes, letters, art, and Museum memorabilia documenting a wide variety of Museum efforts in New York and around the globe, including the creation and installation of exhibitions and far-flung scientific expeditions dating back to the 19th century.