ADAM (the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway)
The ADAM Project created a subject-based information gateway service that provided access to quality-assured Internet resources in the following areas:
- Fine Art, including painting, prints and drawings, sculpture and other contemporary media including those using technology
- Design, including industrial, product, fashion, graphic, packaging, interior design
- Architecture, including town planning and landscape design, but excluding building construction
- Applied Arts, including textiles, ceramics, glass, metals, jewellery, furniture
- Media, including film, television, broadcasting, photography, animation,
- Theory, historical, philosophical and contextual studies relating to any other category
- Museum studies and conservation
- Professional Practice, related to any of the above
The 3-year JISC funding for ADAM was awarded to a consortium of 10 institutions, each with a vested interest in the creation of the service, as part of the Access to Network Resources initiative of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The project ran from 1 December 1995.
The consortium was led by the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, and partners included: University of Northumbria, Glasgow School of Art, Coventry University Art and Design Library, Middlesex University, The National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Southampton Institute of Higher Education, The Tate Gallery, University of West of England, and Winchester School of Art.
For further information on the project, see: Gill, T. (1996). 'A Project Called ADAM', Ariadne, issue 3.
All ADAM resources are now available from Intute.