Visual Arts Forum, 2004. Progress on Action Items
Below is a listing of the action items from the 2004 Visual Arts Forum, together with comments on progress up to June 2005
Action: The NLA to place the results of its survey of visual arts libraries on its web site with a link from the ARLIS/ANZ website.
Done. The survey results are available at http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/visarts/vasurv.html
Action: Kinetica and ARLIS/ANZ collaborate on designing a workshop on cataloguing prior to the ARLIS/ANZ Conference in September to address the following issues:
- Identifying and resolving barriers to contribution to the National Bibliographic Database from visual arts libraries ;
- Identifying and resolving cataloguing workflow issues in visual arts libraries ;
- Setting guidelines for the description of guerrilla resources, at both collection and item levels ;
- Investigating arrangements for shared responsibilities among visual arts libraries for cataloguing of guerrilla resources ;
- Testing the efficiency of harvester gathering methods for NBD contribution through a pilot project with some small visual arts libraries.
The workshop was held, and guidelines made available. ARLIS/ANZ will work to assist some libraries add guerilla resources to the NBD. A test to gauge the efficiency of harvester gathering from small libraries is ye to be done. A suitable library has not yet been identified.
Information about contributing to the ANBD is available at: http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/kineticadoc.html#contribute
Guidelines for the description of non-book resources in visual
arts collections is available at:
http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/manuals/nonbook.html
; there is a link to it from the ARLIS/ANZ web site at
http://arlisanz.anu.edu.au/projectsavaforum.htm
and
a cataloguing
workflows document is available at:
http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/workflowoptions.html
Action: Kinetica to investigate provision of the SCIPIO database from the Research Libraries Group as a core service to increase the amount of copy cataloguing data available to visual arts libraries.
The SCIPIO database is now available as a Libraries Australia target database. Information about searching SCIPIO is available at http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/manuals/scipio.html. Searches are charged on a per-search basis. Kinetica records show that over 40 Australia libraries, including two art gallery libraries, are now regular SCIPIO users.
Action: ARLIS/ANZ and the National Library to work together on establishing a working group to address the issues outlined in the Indexing and Databases paper presented at the Forum. Issues include sustainability, coverage, retrospective conversion, discovery, availability. The feasibility of creating a portal or gateway for Australian visual arts resources could also be addressed by this working group. The working group should aim to report on these issues by May 2005.
The Working Group met in October 2004, and the report of their meeting is available at http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/visarts/wkggps.html#inddb.
Action: ARLIS/ANZ and the National Library to work together on establishing a working group to address the issues outlined in the papers on digitisation presented at the Forum. Issues include metadata, technical standards, rights management, shared effort, and educational uses of digitised images. The working group should aim to report on these issues by May 2005.
The Working Group met in October 2004, and the report of their meeting is available at http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/visarts/wkggps.html#digi .
Action: The National Library to investigate incorporating rights management data into the metadata format used in PictureAustralia.
There is already a field in the metadata for rights management information. "A statement about copyright ownership can be found in the 'more information' display for each image, in the RIGHTS field." [extract from page http://www.pictureaustralia.org/c_right.html]
Action: The CASL Consortium to investigate including the Art Gallery of South Australia in the negotiations for Grove Art Online as a test case for involving small institutions.
The Art Gallery of South Australia was involved in a trial of the Grove Art Online service by the CASL Consortium. After using the service, the Gallery concluded that the cost of the product did not justify a subscription, and the view was expressed that more focussed databases would be more useful. The Gallery does use the printed version.
Action: ARLIS/ANZ review its purpose, goals and activities over the next twelve months
ARLIS/ANZ has reviewed its business plan and in April 2005 commenced a number of actions arising from it. .
Action: All attendees of the Forum to promulgate information about the LearnScope project at the Hunter Institute in order to stimulate development on an online community of practice in digitisation of images for educational uses.
Action: A second Visual Arts Forum to be held in May 2005
The NLA has deferred a second forum. The work of the two working groups has proceeded. A summary of their meetings held in October 2004 is available, and further information about work on action items from those meetings will be made available on this site.
