Conference 2007: Your feedback
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Conference 2007: closing comments
Simon Tanner sums up the last three days in just five words: collaboration, visibility, invisibility, mass and tomorrow.
Collaboration: the hardest thing we do - sitting down and committing institutions to work together and achieve common goal - not easy - underlying thread is that it matters and is taken seriously by everybody here and participates strongly
Visibility: how do we lobby better, say what is being done by this community matters - need to take away the message that the users are interested in the content, driven by content not by who is providing it - content is king in this sense - making it visible is very important
Invisibility: user does not want to have to worry about how they get to the content - just want it to be there - want tools to be invisible - real challenge is how to make the content and some of the brands visible and therefore values but at the same time make the process as invisible as possible
Mass: take the word on both usages - mass as in a lot of something but also in its physics sense - density. How dense is that mass? and look at the fact that there is a lot of density in this digitisation programme - a lot of content is unique, important and valuable even if not a million pages
Tomorrow: spent last two days talking about what will happen next - important that have that focus on tomorrow but do not allow the present to become the enemy of the future, not to become constrained by the now - want to take from today ‘what are you going to do tomorrow’? The blog, the networks you’ve created will still be there - look to the future and see tomorrow as a fresh field to take these projects into.
Conference 2007: Feedback from Day 2 afternoon parallel sessions
With Sarah Porter, David Dawson, Emma Beer, Brian Kelly, David Dawson and Julian Ball
Conference 2007: Workshop: Overcoming OCR challenges
Digital capture and conversion of text - overcoming the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) challenges
Paul Ell (moderator), Director, Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, Queen’s University Belfast
Aly Conteh, Head of Digitisation, British Library
Julian Ball, Project Manager, University of Southampton
Martin Locock, National Library of Wales
Aly Conteh
The British Library perspective - have digitised 3m pages of newspapers from 17, 18th and 19th centuries and just about to digitise our fourth century - also digitising 25m pages of 19th century pages in conjunction with Microsoft - doing about 1m pages a month
Challenges we’ve seen:
Conference 2007: Feedback from Day 2 morning parallel sessions
Moderators from all six parallel sessions, on areas as diverse as digital video and commercial e-content developments, gathered to report back on the presentations and discussions in their groups.
Conference 2007: Workshop: Mass digitisation
Mass digitisation: best practice and lessons learnt
David Dawson (moderator)
Senior Policy Adviser (Digital Futures), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Stuart Dempster,
Director, Strategic Content Alliance, JISC
Joyce Ray
Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Washington DC
Ricky Erway
Programme Officer,
OCLC Programs and Research
Conference 2007: Paola Marchionni and Alastair Dunning: Digitisation phase two
The JISC Digitisation Programme: an introduction to the digitisation strategy and new collections coming on stream from 2009
Paola Marchionni, Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC
Alastair Dunning, Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC
“If Google is The Beast, then the JISC digitisation programme will be The Beauty”
Conference 2007: Joyce Ray: The view from the US
Cyber-infrastructure and information policy: the changing face of US digitisation developments
Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Services
Conference 2007: David Baker: Feedback from the Symposium
David Baker, Principal, College of St Mark and St John, with Sarah Porter and Stuart Dempster
More, live, notes from the meeting can be found on the Strategic Content Alliance Blog
Themes:
- Towards alignment of international content inititives
- Business models/partnerships/roles
- Governance (licencing, IP)
- Tools and infrastructure
- Communities of practice
- Advocacy and tools for this, vocabulary
