'Your Paintings'
VickyB
Thanks to Ally and his team for a great workshop yesterday. Since the
subject of the 'Your Paintings' project came up yesterday, I thought I
would forward the following, sitting in my inbox when I came back
today:
'Become involved in the University of Glasgow/BBC/Public Catalogue
Foundation YourPaintings project:
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:37:00 +0100
From: Andrew Greg <a.g...@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk>
Dear colleagues
We are offering a unique opoortunity to help create one of the most
ambitious online art history resources in the UK.
The University of Glasgow has joined the Public Catalogue Foundation
(www.thepcf.org.uk) and the BBC in YourPaintings, a pioneering
national
project to put details and images of all 200,000 oil paintings in
public
ownership in the UK online. The YourPaintings website will be hosted
by
the BBC and will will be an unprecedented contribution to public
access
to the nation's oil paintings.
An essential part of the project is the tagging of each painting with
reliable data to enable it to be searched for and found on the
database.
To achieve this mammoth task of data enhancement we are pioneering
some
innovative techniques to involve the general public as well as more
specialist participants in an online tagging programme.
We are now recruiting art history colleagues to help with an essential
aspect of this process - the online monitoring, supervision and
arbitration activities necessary to ensure the quality of the final
database. These tasks will take place from October 2010 for a period
of
18 months.
Further details and a response form are attached.
Thanks very much for your attention and I hope to hear from many of
you
soon.
Andrew Greg
Director, National Inventory Research Project
Department of History of Art
University of Glasgow
8 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Office: +44 (0)141 330 8519
Home: +44 (0)141 423 7081
Mob: 07951 464455
a.g...@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
See 'NICE Paintings' at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/NIRP and
www.nicepaintings.org.
The University of Glasgow charity number SC004401'
There's a recruitment letter too, but I don't think I can upload
attachments here, so if you are interested in taking part, let me know
& I can forward the Word doc to you.
All best,
Vicky
Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator
History of Art Department, University of Oxford
Suite 9, Littlegate House
St Ebbes
Oxford OX1 1PT
UK