AHDS Visual Arts
AHDS Visual Arts is based at the Farnham Campus of The University College for the Creative Arts, at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester and is one of five Centres, which together with an Executive, make up the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). The AHDS and AHDS Visual Arts are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
Mission
AHDS Visual Arts mission is to support research, learning and teaching, by providing visual arts digital resources through robust systems for Internet access and long term preservation; and to encourage, support and facilitate engagement with visual arts digital resources, through collaborative and creative endeavour, primarily within UK Higher and Further Education.
Aims
 | To provide collections of visual arts digital resources and advice for their creation and use |
| To preserve visual arts digital resources to ensure their long term use |
| To promote good practice for the creation and use of visual arts digital resources |
Services
AHDS Visual Arts provides Internet access and preservation of its collection of visual arts digital resources and advises in all areas of digital creation, use and management.
The services are freely available to UK Higher and Further Education sectors and AHDS Visual Arts seeks to work collaboratively within other sectors, both nationally and internationally.
Advice
AHDS Visual Arts offers advice on all aspects of digital resource management from funding, through delivery and use, to preservation. Advice is based on established good practice to help maximise the long term potential of resources created by and for the visual arts research, learning and teaching communities.
Advice includes information and training programmes, publications and workshops. Publications include: Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts, available from Oxbow Books, ISBN 1842170139
For further information on obtaining advice to assist your resource creation and management see Creating and Depositing or email info@visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
AHDS Visual Arts staff are guided by an Advisory Committee, drawn from representatives of the visual arts community, which links into the overall management structures of the AHDS and its funders.
Publicity
Copies of current AHDS Visual Arts publicity material, including Posters and Information leaflets, are available for you to print off and display or distribute. Additional copies and other publicity material can be obtained by emailing us at info@visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
