The Integrated Catalogue (InK) of Mediathek of the Basel Academy of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, HGK) hosts, collects, archives and makes available digital resources of HGK and its digital, special collections. It is available both to members of the Academy of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW) to which the HGK belongs and to the general public. In addition to data for internal university use (login area), there is a large amount of unrestricted, freely accessible content.
The thematic focus is on contemporary art and design, art and design research, and topics related to the HGK. The sources cover a wide range of media: in addition to thesis and PDFs based documents, there are cluster objects, which assign several images, videos, audio and/or text files to a defined data set.
The InK serves as an institutional repository for research data management and as a platform for hybrid publications.