Insight: The Digitisation of the Tate Collection
Tate Insight was made possible through significant support from the following Government funds:
Heritage Lottery Fund supporting an initial two years of development to digitise 50,000 British works in Tate's Collection under the British Art Information Project, part of the Tate Britain Centenary Development
Big Lottery Fund
under NOF-digitise supporting a further two and a half years of work to complete digitisation of Tate's Collection,
pilot a range of special imaging treatments, launch Turner Worldwide, put the Archive online, add thousands of catalogue
texts to the collection pages and create the Glossary.
The Insight project team involved a number of people over several years:
- Project Manager: Oliver Vicars-Harris
- Content Manager: Rachel Bhandari
- Imaging Co-ordinators: Ed Bremner, Tessa Meijer
- Senior Indexer and Turner Curator: Matthew Imms
- Indexer and Content Editor: Maggie Hills
- Web Developer: Hugh Williams
- Imaging Assistants: Joanna Fernandes, Lee Hibberd, Matthew Gonzalez-Noda / Maisoon Rehani
- Project Assistants: Sarah Jury, Morag Small, Andrew Tullis
Insight involved vital input from a number of other key Tate teams, in particular:
- Photography
- Information Systems
- Digital Programmes
- Registrars
- Collections
- Library and Archive
Insight also worked with a number of external organisations and specialist companies, including:
- iBase Media Services Ltd – supply of our Image Management System
- University of Northumbria – development of our enhanced images
- Juniper Blue – development of the 3D Henry Moore
- SASVR – development of the Rachel Whiteread installation film
- The National Gallery – development of the Auerbach/Cozens variable light treatment
