About
The Look Here! Project is developing a community of expertise in the creation, management, and use of digitised library, museum, and archive collections for learning, teaching, and research in the creative arts.
The project is being led by the Visual Arts Data Service at the University for the Creative Arts in collaboration with nine partners from the Arts University College at Bournemouth, Bradford College, Norwich University College of the Arts, Royal School of Needlework, University College Falmouth, University for the Creative Arts, University of Brighton, University of the Arts London, and University of Southampton.
Funded as part of the JISC e-Content Programme, the project seeks to develop skills and strategies to support digitisation in the partner institutions and the wider arts education sector. The project is running from October 2009 to February 2011.
Outputs
The key outputs of the project will be:- Environmental analysis report on the issues currently facing collection holders when seeking to digitise and present their collections for educational use
- A series of workshops and community meetings to share knowledge and experience and develop institutional digitisation skills
- A digitisation model based on the digitisation of a sub-set of the University of Southampton Knitting Collections
- A series of case studies and practitioner guides focusing on various aspects of the digitisation, management, and usage of digital assets in arts education
- Digitisation of a number of collections made available to the arts community via the online hosting service provided by VADS
- Published article disseminating information on the project and its outputs to the education community
- Business model and report on the potential to develop a shared service for the art education sector
Project Advisory Group
Leigh Garrett (VADS) - ChairRosemary Lynch (University for the Creative Arts)
Mark Brown (University of Southampton)
Pat Christie (University of the Arts London)
Vicky Brown (University of Oxford)
Julia Cook (University for the Creative Arts)
Alastair Dunning (JISC)
Susan Kay-Williams (Royal School of Needlework)
Susan Lambert (Museum of Design in Plastics)
Sarah Mahurter (University of the Arts London)
Steve Mallinder (Art, Design and Media Subject Centre, Higher Education Academy)
Catherine Moriarty (Design Archives, University of Brighton)
Doreen Pinfold (University College Falmouth)
Mike Pringle (Swindon Cultural Partnership)
Frances Teasdale (University for the Creative Arts)
Karla Youngs (JISC Digital Media)