Insight: The Digitisation of the Tate Collection
The Insight project was originally set up in 2000 as the British Art Information Project (BAIP) with the help of Lottery funding. The initial project ran for three years, morphing into Insight when New Opportunities Fund (NOF) took over the funding, and continues today – primarily expanding the Turner Worldwide project; co-ordinating the ongoing task of indexing the online Collection, to make it easily accessible through the intuitive subject search tool; and of course continuing to digitise the Tate Collection, clearing copyright and making images available here on the website.
The pioneering Insight project was designed to open new paths into the Tate Collection through a comprehensive database of indexed images accessible through the Tate website. The ultimate aim is to develop a digital information resource that encompasses the entire Tate Collection and enables appropriate onsite and remote access to art for the widest possible audience.
Here you can find a background to Insight with an overview of specific projects and links to some highlights. For those curious about the technical details behind the project, there is a production tour of the processes involved. The delivery tools are also examined, to reveal what Insight achieved, and to explain how this fits into the wider digital initiatives at Tate.
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