Image management systems: a model for archiving Stoke-on-Trent's post-industrial heritage
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 33 - 702840
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Topographies of the obsolete: Ashmolean papers
- Publisher
- Topographies of the Obsolete Publications
- ISBN
- 978-82-690937-4-2
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Design Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research builds upon Kaner’s work on art and design archives that preserve post industrial heritage through digitisation of analogue content. In this case it considers the employment of an Image Management System as a framework to preserve Stoke-on-Trent’s industrial heritage, namely the ceramic mould store at the Spode factory in Stoke. The mould store contains examples of extant moulds for the production of Spode models spanning the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. The se rare moulds represent haptic practices, manufacturing technologies and intangible heritage. The current storage is failing and the unique objects themselves are in imminent danger.
The High Wycombe furniture archive is used as a comparative model which employed an Image Management System (Asset Bank), being part of a Resource Enhancement project where Kaner was PI (AHRC).
The study illustrates the benefits of the system and the requisite knowledge, techniques and skills to operationalise the work. It also discusses the scope of the research that is required to conduct such a project to ensure that the captured data is reliable and informed using standard practices such as correct terminology, appropriate search functions and standardised language observing archival protocols.
The importance of the repository framework is addressed through the organisation of the image management system skeleton consisting of categories and fields required to create a functioning structure that allows key word searches and deeper information to be accessible through catalogued text and metadata.
The digitisation process will require three dimensional digital scanning and mapping due to the shape and form of the moulds which have some profile complexities.
The problematics to be faced by the Spode mould project are explored and the resource of the Spode mould is recognised as an underestimated resource as they offer the chance of seeing rarely acknowledged craft manufacturing practise and design processes.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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