YourPaintings - a new resource for research
The Research Information Network (RIN) has been commissioned by the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) to assist them in understanding how the needs of researchers may be met in the development of their new website which will showcase the oil paintings held in public ownership in the UK.
The PCF is in the process of making an illustrated record of every oil painting in public ownership in the United Kingdom. To date the main vehicle for this work has been the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series of printed catalogues. However, in future, the main publication vehicle will be the YourPaintings website. This website is being developed by the PCF in partnership with the BBC and in conjunction with the universities of Glasgow and Oxford.
The YourPaintings partners are keen to ensure that the website they are building will be useful to all groups that might use it. RIN is helping them to understand potential user needs for study and research.
To ensure that the website will be of value to researchers, RIN has created and is running a survey on behalf of the PCF to identify how researchers currently use the internet for their work and also to elicit their response to the facilities the proposed website plans to offer.
For further information on the YourPaintings research survey, please email contact@rin.ac.uk
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Anonymous said on 09 February 2011 at 3:58pm:
This sounds like a great project, especially in light of the recent development of the Google Art Project. It would be very interesting if the researchers would tag a lot of descriptive information on each of the paintings, so that data mining could be possible - such as: are there geographical patterns to paintings with golden tones, versus red tones? Maybe sports teams or weather patterns would influence that, who knows?
Anonymous said on 03 November 2010 at 3:07am:
Hi Sarah
I completed the survey, hope it helps. I really enjoy reading this site and support what it is doing.
Thanks
James
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