Telling Tales With Technology

Ceramics Collection and Archive

University of Wales, Aberysywyth

During the event Julie Smith and Diana Church were available to demonstrate their work on the pilot project for a multimedia computer book based on the ceramic collection and archive at Aberystwyth. This should take the form of a complete catalogue of the collection and archive with photographs of individual pieces and links to biographies of makers, bills of sale, bibliographies and some published essays. It may also contain summaries or transcriptions of interviews or selections from them, small video clips and sound bites. In the first place this will be for use in Aberystwyth and is intended to offer a multi-level information base of use to the casual visitor who wants to find out more about a particular work or the researcher who wants to investigate some aspect in depth. The pilot demonstrated the high quality of image that is possible, the speed of searching and the flexibility of this kind of information tool.