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Artifact: an online resource for Art, Design and Music and the Performing Arts www. artifact .ac. uk Mary Burslem [email protected] JISC RSC for London e-Learning for Music Technology 21 st June 2006

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Artifact:an online resource for

Art, Design and Music and the Performing Arts

www.artifact.ac.uk

Mary [email protected]

JISC RSC for London e-Learning for Music Technology

21st June 2006

First of all, what is Artifact?

A free search engine for locating quality Internet resources for the arts and creative industries

Access to resources relevant to teaching, learning and research

Supports further and higher education Over 6,800 authoritative sites Sites chosen by subject specialists Metadata and description added by cataloguers Part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Funded by the HEFCE via the Joint Information

Systems Committee (JISC)

Who are we?

• Partners are– CALIM (Consortium of Academic Libraries in

Manchester) • Manchester Metropolitan University = lead site

• Includes the Royal Northern College of Music

– The University of the Arts London– South Cheshire College of FE – MIMAS at Manchester Computing = host

Architecture Arts

Communications & Media

CultureDesign

Fashion & Beauty

Music and the Performing

Arts

Our aim is…

…to become a trusted source

of reliable and authoritative

Internet resources

for the arts and

creative industries

through an easily

searchable catalogue

Or more simply…

…provide the user with

free access

to the best of the Web!

7 ways intoArtifact

Explore ‘On This Date’ - a list of historical arts events linked to related Artifact records by date

Search the database

Perform an advanced search

See the latest Limelight feature

Browse the subject areas

Access the Artists’ Index

Browse the A-Z Index

The music sub-headings

of the Music and thePerforming Artsbrowse heading

1. Browsing Artifact

Resources aboutacoustics

The flag = the countryof origin of the resource

Click on the title to gostraight to the resource

Click on ‘View FullRecord’ for the

full record display

The full recorddisplay…

…and the resource itself

2. Searching Artifact

A search for“music software”finds 82 records

3. Searching Artifact usingthe Advanced

Search

A “phrase search” for “music technology”

finds 14 resources

4. Accessing the Artists’ Index

Browse by Role and Surname

Select:Pople, Anthony, 1955-2003:

Scholar, musicologist

One record on Anthony Pople

5. Browsing Limelight features

by subject

Select the Limelight feature on

Philip Glass

6. Browsing the A-Z subject index

The subjects list is based on the Artifact browse

headings and it is updated as new browse headings

are added

7. Exploring “On This Date”

Click on the word or phrase to

perform a search in Artifact

Click on “On This Date” to search for more arts-related

facts and events

Refresh the page to see different facts for today

Click on the Virtual Training Suite icon to view a set of free “teach-yourself” online tutorials, designed to help students develop their Internet research skills.

The Future…

On 13th July 2006,

the RDN will

become…

Pleasenotethatthis

websiteis

underconstruction

until13th July

The eight RDN Hubs are merging into four new subject groups:

 

Arts and humanities

Health and life sciences

Science, engineering and technology (including geography)

Social sciences

Please note that this website is under construction until

13th July

The Virtual Training Suite will be updated and given a new look…

Pleasenotethatthis

websiteis

underconstruction

until13th July

…and the search and browse features,Limelight, Artists’ Index and On This Date

are staying…

…but additional features will include:

Electronic journals – for quick and easy access to a separate list of electronic journals

Thematic Timelines – containing dozens of key events which have shaped the world as we know it, together with

suggested online searches for further research.

MyIntute – which provides weekly email updates of recently reviewed websites and allows you to save resources of interest

Working with Intute – embedding Intute services in your own websites and Virtual Learning Environments using our

sophisticated MyIntute Include services.

Thank you and happy searching and browsing!