Community Arts (including Art and Health)
project: Digitisation of Renaissance Festival Books in the Collections of the British Library
Grant Holder: Professor James Ronald Mulryne
"Festival books are a rich resource for the history of modern Europe, of interest to social, political and cultural historians and to historians of the book. The aim of this project, and others related to it, is to provide greater access to these books.
The Festival Books Digitisation Project, funded by the AHRC, is the result of collaboration between the AHRC Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures at the University of Warwick and the British Library. [read more]
project: The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture
Grant Holder: Dr K P Dukes
The aim of this project is to publish catalogues of all the Anglo-Saxon carved stones, fully illustrated by high quality photographs, with general discussions concerning their relationships and significance, and full bibliographic references. Initially the regional volumes are published by the British Academy, but when the volumes are no longer in the Academy list they are published in shortened form on the internet. [read more]
project: A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images
Grant Holder: Professor John Eakins
The Institute for Image Data Research and the Conservation Unit, School of Humanities, within the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, were awarded funds by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to undertake this project, which ran from 1st October 2000 to 31st March 2002.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The overall aim of the project was to research a variety of techniques designed to improve the accessibility of historical watermark images in paper to researchers and scholars.
Our specific objectives were:
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project: Conservation, cataloguing and indexing of journals held as part of the EMap archive
Grant Holder: Mr Alistair O'Neill
To catalogue and index the collection of British Trade journals and related ephemera which make up the EMap archive. Publishing the index of the articles and making them available through the Voyager database means that researchers anywhere within the world, with access to the internet, can discover what volumes and information are available within the archive and make an appointment to use them there or seek out the relevant volumes in other collections. [read more]
project: John Ruskin's Teaching Collections
Grant Holder: Mr Colin Harrison; Mr Rupert Shephard
This two-year project presented via the Web, a fully searchable and browsable catalogue linked to digitized images of John Ruskin's 'Teaching Collections' held in the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. The interface presents users with a means of linking Ruskin's original catalogues of his collection with modern catalogue information, presenting the entire Oxford-based collection as a single resource: as some of the original collections have now been dispersed under individual artist categories, the project virtually reassembled them in Ruskin's original sequences. [read more]
project: ICTGuides
Grant Holder: Sheila Anderson
The ICTGuides project is now incorporated within this project (arts-humanities.net).
Two developments gave birth to the ICTGuides database: an increase in the use of ICT in arts and humanities research and an awareness that information on how ICT is used in arts-humanities research is not readily available online. [read more]
project: The St Alban's Psalter: on the Web
Grant Holder: Dr Jane Geddes
To digitise the St Albans Psalter and place it on the web. The images are accompanied by complete transcription, translation (Latin into both English and German). Each image has a page-by-page commentary, and the manuscript is amplified by about 40,000 words of accompanying essays.
Aims: to make the psalter available in colour.
Research questions: to understand how the manuscript was made, when, for whom, and why the range of images were chosen.
Wider research context: this manuscript is the finest example of English Romanesque painting, kept outside Britain (in Germany). [read more]