Ashmolean Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

The Museum is extremely grateful for Mr Yousef Jameel for making this project possible.

We would also like to thank the following organisations and people, whose hard work and commitment have made the vision into a reality:

• Keepthinking - website design and development and database conversion
• AllofUs - for their contribution to initial visual design discussions
• All organisations and individuals who gave us permission to reproduce their object images or other original photography online, especially the Bodleian Libraries (Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts and Department of Oriental Collections)
• James Allan, Marianne Ellis and Amy Heller, for permission to reproduce their publications online
• Martin Bazley - for organising user testing of the website and its prototypes (and a big thank you to all those who participated in user testing)
• Adrian Cooper (Intelligent Heritage), especially for his help with the tender for website development
• Oxford University Computing Services, especially Joseph Talbot (Web Design Consultancy), for his advice and feedback on design, usability and accessibility issues, Kate Lindsay for general online collections advice and NSMS for image server specification and setup
• Pitt Rivers Museum - especially Haas Ezzet, IT Manager, for online collections advice
• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - especially Linda Spurdle for online collections advice and Terms of Use support
• Volunteers, for their help in updating object records and other information, including Akemi Horii, Liz Bankes, Hazel Shorland and Ian Matzen
• Lorraine Caunter, for third-party image permissions research

Ashmolean Departments and Individuals:

• All in Eastern Art
• Documentation - especially Rupert Shepherd (now at the Horniman Museum), for his tireless work in ensuring our object documentation was "done right", and also Chris Osman for documentation support
• Helen Hovey, former Eastern Art Documentation Officer, now with Antiquities
• All in ICT, but especially Chris Powell, for working out how to extract all our object data correctly from MuseumPlus
• Development Office - especially Antony Green and Susie Billings (also formerly on the Project Team)
• Press and PR - Susie Gault
• Human Resources - especially Jane Wastie
• Finance Office - especially Claudia van Deventer
• All in the Photo Studio
• Design - especially Greg Jones
• Events Office - especially Paula Falck
• Publications and Picture Library - especially Katherine Wodehouse
• Conservation
• Director's Office
• Education Service
• All in the Retrieval Team
• Cast Gallery - for letting us setup a temporary photo studio for part of the project

A special thank you also goes out to Oliver Watson and Penny Betts, formerly of the Ashmolean, for their hard work in contributing to getting the initial project off the ground.

In addition, we acknowledge the help and support of those organisations who have assisted the project by providing reference resources or software:

• British Museum and the Collections Trust - for permission to use the British Museum Object Name and Materials thesauri
• Pitt Rivers Museum - for permission to use the Pitt Rivers Museum Process thesaurus
• Zetcom - supplier of MuseumPlus, the collections management system used by the Ashmolean to document its collections internally