1. Digital Imagery creation and importance in the visual arts Leigh Garrett Visual Arts Data Service University for the Creative Arts

2. Getting to know you… VADS

3. Visual Arts Data Service  Established in 1996  Research Centre: collection, preservation and usage of digital images for learning, teaching and research  120,000 items; 300 collections; range of educational resources; 60,000 users view 1,750,000 images a month; free for educational use

4. Digital Imagery in the Arts?  Ability to transform physical and virtual spaces  Stimulate reflection and ideas  To challenge preconceptions  Promote debate and discussion  Universal language  Much wider audiences, whether for learning, teaching, research or beyond… VADS

5. But its hard…  Copyright, licensing and commercial interests  Funding  Selection  Image quality and standards  Metadata  Preservation  Discoverability and usability  Sustainability VADS

6. Collections and Digitisation in the Visual Arts  Why do we create digital images?  How can this process be enhanced to meet both the needs of collection holders and their academic users? VADS

7. Morning Session  VADS Collections Amy Robinson, Collections Manager, VADS  Frederic Parker Chair Collection Sue Newton-Short, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University  Content, Digitisation and IPR: an institutional Matthew Bailey, Assistant Manager, Rights and Images, National Portrait Gallery  Workshop: Blood, sweat and tears: is it worth it? Sarah Mahurter, Manager, Archives and Special Collections, UAL

8. Images for Learning, Teaching and Research  How do we effectively engage and promote the use of digital images within learning, teaching and research in the visual and creative arts? VADS

9. Afternoon Session  Teaching with Images Pauline Ridley, Senior Lecturer, CLT, University of Brighton  Stewardship and the shifting nature of art and design research Catherine Moriarty, Curator, Design Archives, University of Brighton  Workshop: Promoting Digital Collections: engaging academic users Stephen Mallinder, Project Manager OER, ADM-HEA  Plenary Leigh Garrett, Director, Visual Arts Data Service, University for the Creative Arts

10. Learning Outcomes VADS  Appreciate the problems and issues collection holders encounter when attempting to make materials available digitally.  Appreciate how digital images can be used within learning, teaching and research in the visual arts.  Reflect on the needs of digital images users, how to engage new users and the opportunities to enhance digital image provision.

11. Plenary

12. Learning Outcomes  Appreciate how digital images can be used within learning, teaching and research in the visual arts.  Reflect on the needs of digital images users, how to engage new users and the opportunities to enhance digital image provision. VADS

13. Thank you!