Spot the Difference! Visual plagiarism in the visual arts.

Garrett, Leigh and Robinson, Amy (2012) Spot the Difference! Visual plagiarism in the visual arts. EVA London 2012: Electronic Workshops in Computing. pp. 24-33.

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Garrett, Leigh and Robinson, Amy

Description/Abstract:

Over recent years there has been considerable investment in the use of technology to identify sources of text-based plagiarism in universities. However, students of the visual arts are also required to complete numerous pieces of visual submissions for assessment, and yet very little similar work has been undertaken in the area of non-text based plagiarism detection. The Spot the Difference! project (2011-2012), funded by JISC and led by the University for the Creative Arts, seeks to address this gap by piloting the use of visual search tools developed by the University of Surrey and testing their application to support learning and teaching in the arts and specifically to the identification of visual plagiarism. Given that most commonly used search technologies rely on text, the identification and evidencing of visual plagiarism is often left to the knowledge and experience of academic staff, which can potentially result in inconsistency of detection, approach, policies and practices. This paper outlines the work of the project team, who sought to investigate the nature, scope and extent of visual plagiarism in the arts education sector.

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Article

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http://ewic.bcs.org/category/17060

Date:

10 July 2012

Funders:

joint Information Systems Committee

Identification Number:

978-1-78017-159-3

Event Location:

London