Welcome to ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway

ADAM Description

Aim
Objectives
Deliverables

Aim

To develop a UK based Information Server giving access to the Art, Design, Architecture and Media resources of the Internet and providing links to commercial online information services.

The focus of the service will fall within the following subject areas:

Fine Art, including painting, prints and drawings, sculpture and other contemporary media including those using technology
Design, including industrial, product, fashion, graphic, packaging, interior design
Architecture, including town planning and landscape design, but excluding building construction
Applied Arts, including textiles, ceramics, glass, metals, jewellery, furniture
Media, including film, television, broadcasting, photography, animation,
Theory, historical, philosophical and contextual studies relating to any other category
Museum studies and conservation
Professional Practice, related to any of the above

Objectives

To consult with the art, design and media teaching and research community on their information needs.
To locate, categorise and evaluate existing art, design, architecture and media information sources and providers on the Internet, including imagebanks.
To create a World Wide Web server providing access to these resources and other commercial services - a one stop shop.
To stimulate the provision of further discipline specific resources by Higher Education Institutions and other major information providers such as galleries and museums.
To improve awareness of online resources and encourage greater use amongst the Art and Design community of educators, researchers and librarians.
To provide a dissemination service for training and information purposes.
To identify and adopt quality standards for information provision and access.
To work with other subject-based services in areas of common interest.
To investigate ways of sustaining the service.

Deliverables

An Art, Design, Architecture, and Media World Wide Web server/information gateway
Supporting Documentation
Guidelines on the organisation and presentation of electronic documents for the purposes of information retrieval
Templates for recording networked information resources
A dissemination programme including:
Participation at the annual conferences of ARLIS and the subject associations
10 Regional Training Workshops - 20 participants at each
Articles in relevant journals e.g. Art Libraries Journal, Art History, Journal of Design History
targeted seminars for IS professionals to cascade knowledge of the service back into academic institutions
An electronic discussion forum on the usefulness of the service
An evaluation methodology referencing appropriate performance indicators
A method of continuing the service after the period of pump-priming