Curation

project: Transnational Communities: towards a sense of belonging

Grant Holder: Dr Maggie O'Neill

Using both participatory action research and arts practice the project explored a sense of belonging, place and emplacement with four transnational communities who are defined as refugees/asylum seekers/undocumented people (in Derby, Leicester, Loughborough and Nottingham). The Long Journey Home artists in exile group based in Nottingham explored these themes and created a series of works for exhibition. Other regional universities supported us with; exhibition space, staff support, supporting artists and communities. [read more]

Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Collaborative publishing Collating Curation Documentation General project management General website development Manual input and transcription Resource sharing Risk management Sound analysis Sound recording Use of existing digital data

project: Unlocking the Celtic Collector; The Mind, Methods and Materials of Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912).

Grant Holder: Dr John Scally

The Carmichael Watson collection in Edinburgh University Library, centred on the papers of the pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912), is the foremost collection of its kind in the country, and is crucial to understanding the customs, storytelling traditions, poetry, songs and general lore of the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland. The project will see an intense dissemination and research programme alongside development of a digital resource that will enable users to search fully-indexed catalogue descriptions, full text transcriptions and biographical records. [read more]

Tags: Cataloguing and indexing Curation General project management General website development Geo-referencing and projection Indexing Interface design Manual input and transcription preservation Risk management Searching and querying Server scripting Text encoding - descriptive

project: William Godwin's Diary

Grant Holder:

The project provides a digital edition of the diary of William Godwin (1756-1836). Godwin’s diary consists of 32 octavo notebooks. The first entry is for 6 April 1788 and the final entry is for 26 March 1836, shortly before he died. The diary is a resource of immense importance to researchers of history, politics, literature, and women’s studies. [read more]

tool: FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager

Submitted by daydream, last updated 10-11-2010

Open source Digital Asset Management solution designed for medium size preservation, cataloguing, media archiving and batch transcoding.

Specifications:

Embedded metadata formats, Image Documents (.jpg) (.gif) (.png) (.tiff) (.bmp) Open Office, Macromedia Flash, MPEG-4, XML

References:

http://www.daydream.co.uk/sol_asset_manager.asp

Platform:

.net, Microsoft Windows

Licence:

GNU General Public License

Subject/tags:

archival software, digital asset management, Digital Preservation

Methods relating to this tool	Category
Animation	Practice-led research
Cataloguing and indexing	Data structuring and enhancement
Collaborative publishing	Data publishing and dissemination
Collating	Data analysis
Content analysis	Data analysis
Curation	Strategy and project management
Data mining	Data analysis
General project management	Strategy and project management
Graphical interaction (synchronous)	Communication and collaboration
Graphical rendering	Data structuring and enhancement
Image feature measurement	Data analysis
Image manipulation	Practice-led research
Image segmentation	Data analysis
Indexing	Data analysis
Manual input and transcription	Data capture
Overlaying	Data analysis
Photography	Practice-led research
Preservation	Strategy and project management
Record linkages	Data structuring and enhancement
Resource sharing	Communication and collaboration
Server scripting	Data publishing and dissemination
Statistical analysis	Data analysis
Streaming media	Data publishing and dissemination
Text encoding - presentational	Data structuring and enhancement
Text encoding - referential	Data structuring and enhancement
Text mining	Data analysis
Text recognition	Data capture
Textual interaction (asynchronous)	Communication and collaboration
Textual interaction (synchronous)	Communication and collaboration
Use of existing digital data	Data capture
User contributed content	Data publishing and dissemination
Video and moving image compression	Data structuring and enhancement
Video editing	Practice-led research
Video post production	Practice-led research
Video-based interaction (asynchronous)	Communication and collaboration

Lifecycle stage:

publishing

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project: Online searchable item level catalogue and sample digital surrogate of the Archigram archives

Grant Holder: Dr Kester Rattenbury

The Archigram Archival Project (AAP) is a major new research resources that makes the work of the seminal 1960s-70s British architectural group, Archigram, available free online for public viewing and academic study. The extraordinary influence of Archigram is internationally acknowledged through the award of the RIBA Gold Medal in 2002, exhibitions, books, and through their role in shaping many of the world's greatest contemporary architects and buildings. [read more]

project: The Listening Gallery: Integrating Music with Exhibitions and Gallery Displays, Medieval to Baroque

Grant Holder: Dr Aaron Williamon

The Listening Gallery was a knowledge transfer collaboration between the Royal College of Music (RCM) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Stemming from research in music, art, design, and technology, the project connected objects in the V&A's collections with music that shares their rich and distinctive pasts. [read more]

project: Reanimating cultural heritage: digital repatriation, knowledge networks and civil society strengthening in post-conflict Sierra Leone

Grant Holder: Dr Paul Basu

This multidisciplinary project is concerned with innovating 'digital curatorship' in relation to Sierra Leonean collections dispersed in the global museumscape. Extending research in anthropology, museum studies, informatics and beyond, the project considers how objects that have become isolated from the oral and performative contexts that originally animated them can be reanimated in digital space alongside associated images, video clips, sounds, texts and other media, and thereby given new life. [read more]

Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Curation Motion capture Resource sharing Sound generation Sound recording

project: Magnetic moments in the past: Developing archaeomagnetic dating for application in UK archaeology

Grant Holder: Dr Cathy Batt

This project follows on from a previous collaboration which established a methodology for using measurements of the past magnetic field of the Earth for dating archaeological materials in the last 4000 years in the UK. The primary aim of this project is to realise the potential of this research by developing its practical application in UK archaeology. There is increasing interest in using archaeomagnetic dating as part of the suite of chronological tools available to archaeologists. However, it has yet to be adopted routinely. [read more]

project: Capturing the past, preserving the future: digitisation of the national review of live art video collection

Grant Holder: Prof Simon Jones

The Capturing the Past, Preserving the Future project has the following aims: To preserve for posterity the unique research materials contained in the National Review of Live Art Video Archive by digitising and maintaining the entire collection; To create an interactive and searchable on-line catalogue, including selected copyright-cleared examples of its holdings; To promote the enhanced research facility amongst the UK higher education, national and international performance research and practitioner communities; Readiness for developing curated programmes. [read more]

Tags: Accessibility analysis Audio interaction (asynchronous) Cataloguing and indexing Coding and standardisation Collaborative publishing Collating Collocating Curation Disk publishing Documentation Graphical interaction (asynchronous) Graphical interaction (synchronous) Human factors analysis Indexing Iterative design moving image Moving image capture MPEG-7 preservation Prototyping Resource sharing Risk management Searching and querying Security planning sound Sound compression Sound editing Sound encoding Sound recording Streaming media System quality assurance and code testing text Textual interaction (asynchronous) Textual interaction (synchronous) Usability analysis Version control Video and moving image compression Video editing Video post production Video-based interaction (asynchronous) Web browser scripting

project: The Prehistoric Stones of Greece: a resource from field-survey

Grant Holder: Professor Clive Gamble

The Prehistoric Stones of Greece (SOG) set out to enhance the research value of survey projects conducted in Greece that had recovered Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic materials. SOG’s focus was to establish a database of stone tools and prehistoric lithics generally and by drawing this material into a common format enhance the resource for a variety of archaeological purposes; in particular academic research and heritage management. [read more]