-- Image Portal Demonstrator --

PIXUS, the image portal demonstrator, is a project managed by the [Scottish Cultural Resources Network (SCRAN)] . The project's aim is to build a prototype image portal that searches across eight collections from the education and cultural sectors. The eight participating collections are:
AHDS Visual Arts, AMICO, British Geological Survey (BGS), Bristol Biomed, HELIX, Resources (RLS), SCRAN and the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library

*The Project Aims are:*


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to be a fully functional portal, enabling cross-searching across image collections
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to build a fully operational, highly functional demonstrator image portal, providing a suitable platform and basis to examine the issues and validity of implementing a full service
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to show how a full-service image portal can be used across further and higher education to enrich and develop the learning and research process
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to be underpinned by interoperable standards, enabling a range of searching/browsing and viewing functions across the image collections

For more information and a chance to evaluate PIXUS in prototype, please see the [Project web site]

AHDS Visual Arts is part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). Copyright 2003.