Win an i-Pad mini!

Would you like to be in with a chance to win an i-Pad mini? Do you use Jisc MediaHub? If so, a new survey has just gone live to gather views on Jisc MediaHub:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FKMQKVL

As part of Project Enriched Playlists, a new Jisc-funded project, Jisc is looking into how audio-visual collections in Jisc MediaHub might be developed for Higher Education (HE) into ‘enriched playlists’:
http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/project-enriched-playlists

This project will help Jisc understand and document how HE would like to use and get the most out of Jisc MediaHub’s moving image, audio and stills collections.

EDINA would be grateful for your help: please do complete the survey by 13th June 2014.

All participants who submit a completed survey will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad mini 16GB (Wi-Fi).

To find out more about the project or this survey, please contact Hetty Malcolm-Smith, Jisc Project Manager (Content), Project Enriched Playlists (020 7393 1520 /  hetty@bufvc.ac.uk).

Met Museum releases thousands of digital images for non commercial use

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has announced that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use - including in scholarly publications in any media - without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new digital files are added on a regular basis.

For more information see http://metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2014/oasc-access 

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. 

Audio Arts archive launched by Tate

Tate announced today the release of 30 years worth of audio content: Audio Arts, established by Bill Furlong in 1972: captured recorded interviews with world famous artists, available here digitally for the first time:

http://www.tate.org.uk/audio-arts

SVAG celebrates its twentieth birthday!

2014 marks twenty years of the Scottish Visual Arts Group! 

This may be a good moment to reflect on our purpose and aims:
 

"As a group of information professionals working in the visual arts area, we are committed to the dissemination of art information in its various forms, and also to the exchange of ideas. Co-operation and collaboration are key to our activities, together with the promotion of our collections and services." - Kerry Watson, Convenor of SVAG. 

At our next meeting on 29th May, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, we will be sure to celebrate this occasion! 

Watch this space for more news soon.