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Thursday, 24 April 2014

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




Thursday, 10 April 2014

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:



Wednesday, 2 April 2014

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.

Thursday, 13 February 2014

EDINA Serials Forum: Helping you manage your journal collections



Booking is now open for this free half-day event on Friday 21st March 2014 focusing on some of the key issues in journal management - with presentations and discussion of the overarching themes and successful approaches in addressing them.

This is an opportunity to learn more about developments of EDINA activities in this area -covering the redeveloped SUNCAT (http://www.suncat.ac.uk), as well as community initiatives such as the UK LOCKSS Alliance  (http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/) and Keepers Registry (http://thekeepers.org/), focussing on long-term access to journal content.

Join us for a lively debate and afternoon tea.

Presenters: Zena Mulligan (SUNCAT), Fred Guy (Keepers Registry, SUNCAT) and Adam Rusbridge (Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS)

Location:

Edinburgh:  Friday 21st March 2014, Main Library, University of Edinburgh

Draft Agenda:

1.00 - 1.30 pm              Registration and tea/coffee

1.30 - 1.45 pm              Putting the Serials Forum and EDINA services in
context

1.45 - 2.30 pm             Managing your journals - how SUNCAT can help you
fulfil your ILL requests; keep your catalogue up to date and analyse your collection (including use cases; details of the redevelopment; demo of the new service, and future plans)

2.30 - 3.00 pm              Forum discussion on SUNCAT issues

3.00 - 3.30 pm              Tea/coffee and cake

3.30 - 4.15 pm              Securing continuing access to e-journal content:
how EDINA's services can help (with reference to the Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS Alliance, and PECAN initiatives)

4.15 - 4.45 pm              Forum discussion on Keepers Registry, LOCKSS,
PECAN etc. issues

4.45 - 5.00 pm              Summary and next steps

                 
Registration and event details:

For further information about the Forum please contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images

Over 100,000 high resolution images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements are now freely available through Wellcome Images.
Drawn from the Wellcome Library's vast historical holdings, the out of copyright images are being released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.
This means that they can be used for commercial or personal purposes, with an acknowledgement of the original source (Wellcome Library, London). All of the images from the Library's historical collections can be used free of charge.
The images can be downloaded in high-resolution directly from the Wellcome Images website for users to freely copy, distribute, edit, manipulate, and build upon as you wish, for personal or commercial use.