The national fine art education digital collection�.. A website

							                   Fineart.ac.uk

              A Case Study

                  Polly Christie
                 Projects Manager
                  AHDS Visual Arts
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
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Background to the project
Demonstration
Some lessons learnt
Conclusions
   Background



Based on CNAA Art Collection
Broadening out
Going digital
“a national collection celebrating and facilitating research
into the history and achievement of the artist practitioner in
UK fine art education”
Project Management



    Set up a Hanging Committee
    Send out a survey & select contributors
    Provided guidelines & visit each
    Create back-end database
    Commission website
    Explore technology
    Commission ‘contextual material’
    Ingest content
    Launch the project
Lessons learnt


    Collaborating
          • Keeping records
          • Getting the right contacts
          • Communicating effectively
          • Being flexible
Lessons learnt


    Collaborating
    Guidelines
         • Simple but thorough
         • Provide examples
         • Choice not necessarily a good thing
         • Work not over
                  Lessons learnt


                      Collaborating
                      Guidelines
                      Copyright

“Copyright clearance has been the most difficult and time consuming part of the project”

“… proved a major stumbling block…which required delicate negotiations”

http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/case-studies/developing-licences/index.htm
Lessons learnt


    Collaborating
    Guidelines
    Copyright
    Third party developers
         • ask how long it will take and triple it
         • don’t underestimate your own input
         • support contracts
         • training
 conclusions



Accept all the help you can get!
Planning
Good communication
Thorough documentation
      Useful links



AHDS: http://ahds.ac.uk
TASI: http://www.tasi.ac.uk
HEDS: http://heds.herts.ac.uk/
BUFVC: http://www.bufvc.ac.uk
MAAS: http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/maas/index.html
CLA: http://www.cla.co.uk/
DACS: http://www.dacs.org.uk/
Fineart project: http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/projects/fineart/index.htm
Polly Christie




     polly@vads.ahds.ac.uk