Image Portal Demonstrator

PIXUS, the image portal demonstrator, was a project managed by the Scottish Cultural Resources Network (SCRAN). The project's aim was to build a prototype image portal that searches across eight collections from the education and cultural sectors. The eight participating collections were: VADS, AMICO, British Geological Survey (BGS), Bristol Biomed, HELIX, Resources (RLS), SCRAN and the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library

The Project aims were:

• to be a fully functional portal, enabling cross-searching across image collections
• to build a fully operational, highly functional demonstrator image portal, providing a suitable platform and basis to examine the issues and validity of implementing a full service
• to show how a full-service image portal can be used across further and higher education to enrich and develop the learning and research process
• to be underpinned by interoperable standards, enabling a range of searching/browsing and viewing functions across the image collections