Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales 1825-1975
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Grant Holder:
Dr Martin O Kane
The Imaging the Bible in Wales Research Project seeks to record a wide range of artwork from Wales during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that depicts biblical scenes and characters. The Bible has played a vital role in the religious and cultural life of Wales, and the project seeks to interpret the social, political and theological issues that the artworks raise. This work has been enabled through fieldwork and new photography, the results of which are now available to a wide and inclusive audience: biblical specialists, heritage groups, artists and art historians, as well as church and community groups.
Camera RAW photographs processed as uncompressed TIFF files, and also compressed JPEG files for the online database and DVD-ROM.
| Project start date: 2005-09 | Project end date: 2008-08 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d illustration | Practice-led research |
| 2d scanning | Practice-led research |
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Disk publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Desktop publishing and pre-press | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Moving image capture | Data capture |
| Photography | Practice-led research |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Storyboarding | Practice-led research |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Image manipulation | Practice-led research |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Photomontage | Practice-led research |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Security planning | Strategy and project management |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Video editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| sound | Content types |
| moving image | Content types |
| Community Arts (including Art and Health) | Discipline |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics
Software tools used:
MySQL, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Macromedia Director, Adobe InDesign
Source material used:
Processed digital photographs, copies of which will be held by the University of Wales, Lampeter and the National Library of Wales on hard drives and as DVD-ROM copies. Further audio-visual material consists of audio minidiscs, also archived on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM as well as hard drive back ups, and miniDV tapes, held at the Media Centre, University of Wales Lampeter, with copies at the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, National Library of Wales.
Digital resource created:
Two digital resources have been produced. First an interactive DVD-ROM and second an online database of images. The DVD-ROM is available for purchase as part of the illustrated volume Biblical Art from Wales (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), or is available on its own through the Theology Department at the University of Wales, Lampeter. It contains around 600 images, interpreted according to themes relevant to the overall project and are contextualized through interviews with specialists drawn from the disciplines of theology and art history as well as practising artists. An online database of some 6,000 images has been created and provides additional contextual information such as artist biographies and topographical details.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF), Digital Video File (DV), MySQL, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Metadata standards employed:
Visual Resources Association Core 3.0 (VRA)
Publications:
Martin O’Kane and John Morgan-Guy (eds.), Biblical Art from Wales (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010).
Martin Crampin and John Morgan-Guy, Imaging the Bible in Wales (DVD-ROM) (University of Wales, Lampeter 2010).
The third publication is the Imaging the Bible in Wales Database, hosted by the National Library of Wales and available at http://imagingthebible.llgc.org.uk.
Martin Crampin and John Morgan-Guy, Imaging the Bible in Wales (DVD-ROM) (University of Wales, Lampeter 2010).
The third publication is the Imaging the Bible in Wales Database, hosted by the National Library of Wales and available at http://imagingthebible.llgc.org.uk.
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
|---|
| University of Wales |
| University of Wales Lampeter |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies |
| National Library of Wales Aberystwyth |
| Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Martin O Kane; Professor Geraint Jenkins; Mr Andrew Green |
|---|---|
| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Martin Crampin |
| Title | Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales 1825-1975 |
| Record created | 2008-03-11 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-28 11:22 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2293 |
| Citation of record | Martin Crampin: Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales 1825-1975. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2293> created: 2008-03-11, last updated 2010-06-28 11:22 |