VADS and English Heritage Viewfinder are available on Europeana
Europeana has just harvested, and put online in its portal two major collections. Both were harvested from our national aggregator - Culture Grid. The first is c93,000 records, from many organisations, in the Vissual Arts Data Service collections. At the same time the c55,000 English Heritage’s ViewFinder images were also made available.
VADS has served the academic community for over 12 years and has published a large set of visual art collections that are available free and cleared for use in the UK for learning, teaching and research.
Highlights of the c50 collections available on VADS include:
- African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
- Central Saint Martins: Museum & Study Collection
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
- Crafts Study Centre: University for the Creative Arts at Farnham
- Design Council Archive: Design Archives, University of Brighton
- Design Council Slide Collection: Manchester Metropolitan University
- Imperial War Museum: Concise Art Collection
- Imperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict
- John Johnson Collection: Political Prints
- NICE Paintings: The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
- Peter King Archive: London Metropolitan University
- Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
- Sir Henry Dryden Collection
- Textiles Collection: University for the Creative Arts at Farnham
English Heritage ViewFinder are historic photographs of England held by the National Monuments Record (NMR). The earliest are from the 1850s, and are for those with an interest in social, industrial, architectural and archaeological history.
Taken together these two collections represent a significant contribution to UK material on Europeana.
