Visual Resources Digitisation Officer - Job Vacancy
Visual Resources Digitisation Officer (FIXED TERM CONTRACT)
5 months (1.0 FTE) or 10 months (0.5 FTE)
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Salary: £27,318to £30,748 pa based on 1.0 FTE
Location: Farnham
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The University for the Creative Arts has campuses at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester and is home to 6,500 students from over 70 countries studying on courses in fashion, graphics, design, media, fine art and architecture.
The Imagio project is a Library and Learning Services project funded by the University to support teaching and learning.
Phase one of the project produced a policy and technical framework for the capture and storage of digital images. The Visual Resources Digitisation Officer will be responsible for the implementation and dissemination of phase two: the creation of a digital still image resource for use by academic staff.
This newly created post provides an exciting opportunity for someone wishing to gain experience in the development of digital image databases within an HE library setting.
It would suit a candidate with initiative who enjoys interacting and liaising with a wide-range of people.
Candidates should have a professional qualification in librarianship or information science with library experience, preferably in the HE sector. Experience of visual resources in a creative HE environment, and digitisation skills would be an advantage, as would a knowledge of copyright and IPR.
Application forms, Vacancy Summary and further information relating to the University for the Creative Arts are available for download or alternatively contact the Human Resources Department via email HR@ucreative.ac.uk or on 01252 892681 (24 hours -quoting the relevant reference).
The closing date for receipt of applications is 25 February 2010
Interviews will be held on week commencing 08 March 2010
We value the diversity of our organisation and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.
European Conference on Digital Libraries - Call for Papers
14th European Conference on Digital Libraries - Call for Papers
September 6-10, 2010
Glasgow, UK
Overview
The European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Digital Libraries and Mobility
- Digital Library Architectures
- Digital Library Infrastructure
- Digital Preservation and Curation
- Information Mining in Digital Libraries
- Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries
- Interoperability of Digital Library Systems and Services
- Knowledge Organisation Systems
- Metadata Standards and Protocols in Digital Library Systems
- Multilinguality in Digital Libraries
- Multimedia Digital Libraries
- Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Libraries
- Personalisation in Digital Library Systems and Settings
- Policies for Digital Library systems
- Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Interfaces in Digital LibrariesUser Interfaces for Digital Libraries
- User Studies for and Evaluation of Digital Library Systems and Applications
- Visualisation in Digital Libraries
Submissions
All contributions must be written in English. They must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must be submitted via the conference submission system.
Further information
For further information, please visit the conference web site at http://www.ecdl2010.org/ or email info@ecdl2010.org.
HEFCE funding decision and Digitisation calls
Last week it was announced that HEFCE would be making funds available for some of the JISC funding calls that had been postponed.
e-Content currently has a call out on Developing Community Collections. Strand II of this call has been on hold while HEFCE made their decision on funding.
It has been announced that funds are now available to continue this work, and Strand II will now be continuing, albeit with a slightly revised timetable for submission and project start times.
The revised deadline for submission of proposals will be the 15th March 2010, with projects starting in May 2010.
Further information about the revised timetable for this work is available on the JISC website.
JorumOpen
The recent launch of JorumOpen sees free access to a growing collection of open educational resources.
JorumOpen will allow lecturers and teachers to share materials under the Creative Commons licence framework. This will allow for easier sharing, grants users greater rights for use and re-use of online content and is easier to understand.
Jorum has also developed a range of Youtube videos on using JorumOpen.
For digitisation projects this is an ideal place to both deposit any educational resources you may have developed as outputs for your project, and also offers a unique resource for uncovering and reusing new resources.
Pre-Raphaelites project wins award
The Pre-Raphaelites online resource has won the BETT Award for best digital collection and resource bank after being recognised as one of the UK’s leading educational websites.
Further details of the award can be found on the Birmingham City Council’s website.
This latest accolade follows earlier victories in the BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) and DADI (Drum Award for Digital Industries) Awards.
This continued acknowledgement of the websites design and usability helps highlight the importance of making these areas an integral part of a projects planning and execution.
Key features of the site include:
• full record information for each image
• zoom-in function, to allow users to examine images in great detail
• browse and advanced search
• background resources on the Pre-Raphaelite movement and artists
• exemplars of learning resources, such as “Gender and Sexuality”, as well as the facility for teachers to create their own
• personal collection, a functionality which allow users to group and theme images from the collection as well as take part in online discussions
The Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource was funded by the JISC Digitisation programme and created by the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
Challenging our understanding of Digitisation
At the forthcoming Developer Happiness Days one of the sessions planned to take place will be exploring a DIY digitisation workflow:
Taking you from the act of scanning images and objects, learning how to process and edit them with software like ocrupus, blender and OpenCV, storing and manipulating them online and finally, through to printing their digital forms out, mashed together with comments, citations, automatic qr codes and even other digital objects!
While this session is not intended to showcase the same results one would expect to find on large scale institutional and heritage digitisation projects, the session might just force a consideration of digitisation practices and trigger off some interesting questions and dialogue.
So, if this confrontation with digitisation sounds interesting then there is an opportunity for attendance at this session by project members from JISC digitisation and eContent projects.
Spaces will be limited, so please contact me directly if you wish to register your interest: b.showers@jisc.ac.uk.
And to find out a little more about this session you can read Ben O’Steen’s blog and his ideas for the “The Secret Life of the Book” session at the event.
And further information about the Dev8d programme is available on the Developer Happiness website
#dev8d
Victorians find themselves in Second Life!
Last week saw the launch of the Resurecting the Past Project from the University of Bristol.
The project has built a 3D model of the Pompeii Court from the Crystal Palace exhibition in the virtual world of Second Life.
The project aims to:
- to make accessible to the public knowledge of the Crystal Palace and its collections.
- to increase awareness of and stimulate research into the Crystal Palace and to broaden our understanding of the place and perception of Classics in the nineteenth century beyond the universities and museums by reconstructing the collection and display techniques of a private speculative enterprise that shaped and reflected mid century ideas of taste.
- through dissemination and evaluation of our project to stimulate new approaches to teaching & learning, to encourage dialogue between academic institutions and the wider community and to encourage the increasing use of digital technology within the Arts and Humanities to reach its full, interactive potential.
The project launched with a party in Second Life on Wednesday 16th December, and can be visited by following the link from the project webpages.
More details about the project can be found on the JISC webpages.
British Cartoon Archive Workshop
The British Cartoon Archive recently ran a workshop which aimed at allowing this important resource to increase both its functionality and embed the resource further within teaching and research.
The final report from the workshop is now available.
Further information about the workshop and the Cartoon archive can be found on the Workshop Website
Learning Impact Awards Competition 2010
Don’t procrastinate! Submit your nominations now for the Learning Impact Awards and Recognition Program. Nominations for the 2010 Global Competition are due by 31 December 2009.
It’s easy to submit your nominations, just fill out the nomination form online.
The Learning Impact Awards (aka LIAs) recognize the use of technology to support and enhance learning, featuring the highest levels of innovation, adoption, and learning impact.
The LIA awards are unique in that they recognize the use of technology in context. Nominations include not only information about the technology, but how it is used by an implementing organization.
To find out more about the Learning Impact Awards and see previous winners visit the website.
Don’t forget to save the date for the Learning Impact Conference!
Join Us in Long Beach, California for Learning Impact 2010 and The Summit on Global Learning Challenges the 17-20 May 2010 at the Long Beach Hilton.
This 8th annual event again brings together the world’s leading architects, influencers, and users of learning technology to participate in program tracks focused on ascertaining the state of and trends in learning, technology, and standards.
The format will be a highly engaging combination of the Learning Impact Awards showcase and associated program tracks, executive keynotes and panels providing insights into the perspectives of key industry leaders, and workshops featuring demonstrations of the latest use of IMS standards.
Find out more at the Learning Impact Website.
Unlocking 20 years of independent radio news
In 1973 a group of Fleet Street journalists, with no experience of radio broadcasting, came together and set up the UK first “independent” (commercial) radio service, at the time the only alternative to the BBC, without quite knowing where this would take them.
Today, through the digitisation of the London Broadcasting Company/Independent Radio News (LBC/IRN) archive, members of the UK Higher and Further education sector have the chance to delve into 20 years (1973 - mid-1990s) of independent radio programming covering national and international news such as the Falklands war, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the years of Margaret Thatcher and the death of Princess Diana as well as feature programmes and audience phone-ins, a first of its kind at the time.
Leading up to the official launch of the LBC/IRN digitisation project, Sean Street, Director of the project, talks to Steve Allen, from LBC, (Steve discovers the LBC archive) about the early days of the LBC and how the team at the University of Bournemouth carried out this challenging project of preserving and making accessible a slice of our more contemporary history.
The LBC/IRN digitisation project was funded by the JISC Digitisation Programme.