Creating Multimedia Repositories:

new media, new metadata, new interactions….

Edinburgh Repositories Fringe, 31 Jul-01 Aug, 2008

The Kultur Projecthttp://kultur.eprints.org

• Creating institutional repositories for research output in the creative and applied arts

• Working model of a common arts repository transferable to other arts institutions and departments

• Improved scholarly infrastructure for practice-based research

1. Media

• Images, videos, audio, websites, text …

• Creators need to have digital versions of work to upload

• Formats

•Complex objects

• Media requiring a range of mechanisms to protect copyright

Copyright protection:

•Images: high and low resolution versions. Watermarking?

•Video previews, streaming, and clips

•Clearance for works printed in arts and creative industry publications – text and non-text

2. Metadata

1. Flexibility to describe events, event histories, processes and objects across range of disciplines

2. Contributors and roles

3. Complex objects. requiring document level metadata

Relationships between records

3. New Interactions

How will a repository be used within this particular sector?

Understanding needs of different groups of users

Managing expectations – comparisons with other arts databases

What sites do researchers currently use, if any, to disseminate their work?

Importance of repository’s aesthetics

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Luxonline: film and video art

Artists’ own websites

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Adapting EPrints to showcase visual and multimedia work:

•Viewing options – thumbnail, light box, download

• Prioritising output over metadata

http://kultur-demo2.eprints.org/101/ http://kultur-demo2.eprints.org/160/

User analysis

Repository incentives include:

• Active space for ongoing and collaborative work

• Agency role representing artists, networking and promotion. Mediation between research and professional environments To develop:

Browsing options Artist-level informationAccess levels

Project websitehttp://kultur.eprints.org

Further details…