Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Creative use of digital archives

The Archives Hub (http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/index.html) provides an access point to descriptions of UK university and college archives.

They also run a Digital Artist in Residence scheme. For the month of June their artist is Aileen Collis. She is manipulating digital images and creating digital collages of items from archive collections. Her Collection of the Month images show how archives can be used to inspire new works.

Monday, June 18, 2007

Why Me? Artists Use of Self Image

The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) have released details of a new database of artists who use their self image within their work. The database features a list of names and a link to the artists' works. Anne Seagrave has created the database which is available as an Excel spreadsheet or plain text file. Copyright in the database resides with Seagrave but it can be used for research and study purposes.

For more information on the "Why Me? Artists Use of Self Image" project and the resulting database of artists go to: http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/WMASI.html

Thursday, June 14, 2007

DIDET project

The DIDTE project sets out to enhance student learning opportunities by enabling students to participate in engineering design team-based projects with a global aspect to them. To achieve this they developed LauLima, a customised wiki based system which includes a learning environment and digital library. They have a formal repository (digital library) which is a bank of completed projects, and informal wiki pages with images embedded (learning environment).

Students use the informal learning environment in a flexible way to record milestones related to their research, concept development and final design. Communication within the system is complementary to email. Tutors are able to assess student performance, to see if milestones are being reached and to provide feedback.

One of the benefits to the project is that it captures tacit design knowledge as part of the process of sharing through the digital library.

Friday, June 08, 2007

TASI advice paper

TASI have some excellent advice on using images in teaching and research. Their paper 'Roles and Responsibilities for Staff Using Images for Teaching and Research' covers copyright (clearing copyright, third party licences, Creative Commons etc), using images in e-learning, in lectures and in research. There are links to additional help and information.

TASI have a section of their website dedicated to advice on finding and using digital images, see: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/using.html.