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The Student Interactive Imaging Program: Developing Marketable Technical Skills Through a Web-Enabled Database ProjectWilliam Kirby, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art Subsidiary
Session: Museum Applications: Web Museums and Economic Development
The Canadian Visual Arts Information Network (CCCAnet) is an on-line
database project profiling contemporary Canadian visual artists and
their work. It currently includes more than 2,000 images by more than
80 artists. Much of the work involved in building the database and the
CCCAnet website has been carried out by high school and college students
working through partnerships with The Centre for Contemporary Canadian
Art. The learning benefits of the Student Interactive Imaging Program
have been many. It has provided the students with a practical project
through which to learn marketable technological skills, a new opportunity
to experience contemporary Canadian art, and a community education-based
method to aid in the building of an important national visual art information
resource. The Student Interactive Imaging Program has been supported
in part by SchoolNet Digital Collections, an innovative program of Industry
Canada designed to give young people technology-based job experience
convering collections of material into digital form. This presentation
will describe the CCCAnet project, illustrate the student-developed,
web-enabled database, and suggest how such a program could easily be
extended to museums, providing them with a valuable, cost-effective
partnership to aid in the automation and dissemination of their collections
while enhancing their educational activities. |
