Photographic and Audiovisual Documentation Service

The Photographic and Audiovisual Documentation Service specialises in photography documentation and resources, audiovisual arts, and cultural management and dissemination, in addition to the documentation maintained and produced by the Image Centre.

This service is integrated with the rest of the Centre's resources, and coordinated fully with the Consultation and Loaning of Images and Audiovisuals Service for INSPAI fonds and collections.

The objective is to provide documentary support to the Image Centre's initiatives and act as an intermediary between those producing the documentation and those using it, facilitating the dissemination of information and documentation in response to the needs of each one in a digital and social context.

Functions carried out within the Service

- Documentary processing of the Centre's archives and library

• Information selection (physical and virtual)
• Selection of press and resources specialised in photography
• Documentary analysis
• Database description
• Classification and storage (physical and virtual)
• Maintenance
• Thesaurus management

- Online sharing

• of the image fonds and collections and documentary archives
• of the activities carried out by the Centre
• of virtual exhibitions

- Management of INSPAI web content

- Management of social media and online sharing platforms

- Project SiGICI (Integrated System Management of the Image Centre)

- Technical support (databases, thesaurus, etc.)

Materials and services offered

• General and reference information
• Consultations
• Image fonds catalogue
• Bibliographic archive catalogue
• Electronic resources collection