Enhancing the VADS Image Collection
VADS provides a national collection of over 100,000 high quality images, as well as a range of e-learning resources and websites, all of which are available free at the point of use, to support teaching, learning and research in the UK.
Some three hundred educational institutions, museums and individual artists have contributed images and metadata to the VADS image collection since its inception. The collection covers a range of visual arts subjects, including applied arts, architecture, design, fine art and media.
This project seeks to enhance the VADS Image Collection by:
- Developing mechanisms to automatically share VADS metadata with JISC services, repositories and other complementary databases
- Enhancing existing metadata to facilitate more systematic cross-searching of the collection, and allow for some level of user generated metadata including image annotation and tagging
- Facilitating greater academic use by giving users the ability to curate, annotate and publish their own image sets, thus stimulating use of the collection in new and potentially rejuvenating ways
This project is funded by JISC as part of the Enriching Digital Resources programme, a strand of the Digitisation programme.
Project Documents
- Project Plan (PDF)
- Report of first Steering Group Meeting (PDF)
For the latest news on the project, see the VADS blog
Project Steering Group
Terms of Reference:
The Enhancing VADS Steering Group is responsible for:
- Overseeing the general direction of the project
- Advising on and monitoring interface and metadata enhancements made to the VADS image archive, to enhance its use in teaching, learning and research
- Contributing to dissemination and promotion of the project
- Advising on the sustainability plan
Constitution:
- Rosemary Lynch - Head of Library and Learning Services, University for the Creative Arts - Chair
- Leigh Garrett - VADS Director and Senior Lecturer in Learning Technologies, University for the Creative Arts
- Carolyn Bew - Academic Developer, Higher Education Academy Art, Design and Media Subject Centre
- Jess Crilly - Learning Resources Manager (Resources & Systems), University of the Arts London
- Jules Findley - Course Leader Fashion, Promotion and Imaging, University for the Creative Arts
- Karla Youngs - Director, JISC Digital Media
- Pauline Ridley - Learning Area Co-ordinator (Visual Practices) Learnhigher CETL, Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Brighton
- Nathan Scrimshaw - Imagio Digitisation Project Officer, University for the Creative Arts
- Sarah Sutherland - Lecturer in MA, University for the Creative Arts
- Frances Teasdale - Central Services Manager and Head of Collections, Library and Learning Services, University for the Creative Arts