What is process.arts
process.arts is an ongoing agile web development project which relays fully on community participation to keep it going, the project is currently a voluntary managed project no one is employed to support this service at present although we hope to move process.arts into a funnded service in the future.
The overall concept is to increase community of voluntary participants to allow specialist sections/subjects and areas of the site to develop independently. The process.arts site is a good proof of concept of a sustainable social academic media content community.
2006: Began to explore how UAL can document students and staff working in studios
2007/8: The site was developed during a 10 day secondment at CLTAD Centre for Learning and teaching in Art and Design
2009: process.arts was given free space on the UAL server to run a pilot
2009: The concept and participation functionality was developed during a 25 day UAL fellowship
2010: 3.5k CLIP CETL funding to support a pilot
2011: 2011: 5k ALTO project funding to update and develop the drupal code and UAL agreed a 3 year free server commitment
The Future Specialist section development, process.arts would like to explore the opportunities and concepts to the take process.arts to its next level of development. Once a community can commit and want to take 'ownership' of a specialist section we can develop this requirement appropriately. Approach we can take: Once the local community is fully established in the existing sections e.g fashion, animation etc section on process.arts We can start planning the development of the possible satellite specialist sites, this site would be an agile development project with the specialist community and the wider process.arts community and could address the following issues: Creating the first unique bespoke satellite web space for a specialist area with links and integration (advanced search/CSS etc) to the process.arts site and community - The new connected space could have full user access (open to all) Specific design and functionality to the accommodate the community needs but remain connected to the process.arts community and wider networks. Create an exemplar for sustainable growth of subject specific social/academic content communities.
