Links

• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision
  This book presents the JISC Images Working Group's vision for images in education, and a summary of the findings from the community consultation.
• The Digital Picture Survey
  This study established a UK-wide overview of issues, and potential solutions, relating to the effects of the digital image revolution within the UK arts education community.
• CLIC Study
  This study made recommendations on how national initiatives could help in sharing and embedding collections within the higher and further education sectors.
• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
  A low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability.

Examples of aggregator services or prototypes:

• People's Network Discover Service
  Aggregates catalogue records from UK collections in the cultural sector. Funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
• PictureAustralia
  PictureAustralia provides a single access point to the digitised pictorial collections of a range of cultural institutions in Australia. The service is hosted by the National Library of Australia.
• The Getty OAI harvesting project
  In 2007, the ARTstor digital library harvested two test collections from the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, using OAI-PMH.
• VSM Portal Demonstrator
  Demonstrator project for a national portal of visual and sound materials for higher and further education. Developed by EDINA.