OVAM Visits

Over the past week we have been busy organising visits to the schools which are collaborating for the project.

The currently agreed visits are going to take place on the following dates:
2nd February - Glasgow
3rd February - Edinburgh
6th February - Cambridge
7th February - Nottingham
8th February - Hartpury College
9th February - Bristol
10th February - RVC, London

Whilst visiting we hope to get a good idea of the resources which each school may be able to contribute. It would be excellent if we could meet with a student who is interested in acting as the student curator for the school too.
The student curators together with the contact for each institution will be tasked with helping to review the resources and select the most appropriate ones, using a set of criteria such as the media type, licensing, species, system, description and value for education as well as taking factors such as the quality and originality of the resource into account.

OVAM Progress

With the start of 2012 now upon us the OVAM project is now in full swing. The project team met last week to discuss and organise some of the finer details of the project, such as some ideas for the possible museum interface, how it is going to be linked to WikiVet, the types of resources which will be appropriate and possible ways they could be categorised as well as issues which may be encountered such as licensing and ethical concerns.

The next step is arranging all the visits to the UK schools, which we are aiming to try and fit in at the beginning of February. The idea of these visits is to meet with the anatomists and see and identify which resources that partners have which may be appropriate. We would also like to try and meet with a student who has a special interest in anatomy and could act as the student curator for the school. The student will then be responsible for checking material and selecting the resources which fulfill a set of criteria which make them appropriate for use in the museum and be invited to attend a workshop further into the project along with the student curators from other schools.