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Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection

The project pilots the creation of the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection and an accompanying Open Educational Resource (OER). Zandra Rhodes is amongst the most famous and recognisable names in British fashion over the last fifty years.

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:November 2011 to January 2013 Source:		Organisations: University for the Creative Arts Zandra Rhodes Studio
	Tags: Content Programme 2011-2013 Digital Libraries Digital Preservation & Curation Digital Repositories Digitisation Digitisation & open educational resources (OER) Digitisation and Content Learning Environments Learning Resources

Standards

Standard	Comments
TIFF	Used for capture format
JPEG	Delivery format
EXIF	Generated automatically, retained
VRA	Used for describing images
OAI-PMH	VADS will support this

Technologies

Xerte	Will probably be used to build individual images into something more structured as learning content
Extensis Portfolio	Used for capturing data at studio. Had preious experience in using for FineArt.ac.uk & and more National Galery. Quite visual so suits project. Not too expensive. Export in simple formats (txt, csv...)

Comments:

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 14:24:11

Tracking: see how used within University; plan to create OER focus group, feedback from external academics; web stats from download sites; user enquiries & feedback; JISC eContent team impact and usage toolkit.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 14:19:47

Relatively few learning packages going into Jorum, no problem with manual deposit

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 14:18:15

2000 images + scanned designs.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 14:13:37

Want to make sure that resources can be identified as a collection in VADS and JORUM. VADS has functionality built for this.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 14:10:47

Making available internally through BlackBoard initially, then through Jorum

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:58:29

Developed controlled vocabularies: collection name, season, textile...

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:57:45

References from Zandra Rhodes Style Bibles used as file names.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:56:53

Using VADS headings, draws on VRA Core. Looked at V&A and Met Museum of Arts, and asked studio.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:55:49

Digital cataloguer working on metadata. No existing catalogue or database for this collection. Lots of books and information resources. Main getting the information first-hand from studio staff, drawing on knowledge of designers. Putting this into database with standardised metadata. See blog for further details.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:51:42

Can be difficult to capture all information "in the field"--actually in designer's studio

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:51:06

Benchmarking against Craft study centres digitisation project

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:49:08

File naming convention based on unique style number

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:48:45

Watermark on images giving info on copyright holder and licence

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:47:22

CC-BY-NC-SA Non Commercial Share alike licence

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:43:08

Content is mostly images. Followed best practice advice from JISC Digital Media: capture, preservation options etc. Photos ZRs personal collection plus scans of sketches, water colours etc.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:41:39

Delivery through VADS and Jorum but details not firm yet

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:41:07

Technical area: digital content being created from scratch, metadata that goes with it, online delivery of those.

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:37:15

University was involved in previous UK OER project in arts, so builds on some of that experience

Posted by philb at 2012-04-25 13:36:25

uses some lessons from from VADS and other jisc projects.