http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org News from the UK Digitisation Programme Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:06:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tuesday 16th March saw the launch of Exeter University's Digital Collections Online. Delivering images and digital objects from Exeter's most prestigious research collections, including over 2000 images showcasing Victorian culture, openly available for teaching and research. The website includes e-learning packages to help embed the collections use within the university's teaching, ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/17/digital-collections-online-is-launched/ 20 July 2010, 10am-4pm British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London • Explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of newspapers • Consider the effect that this has had on research and researchers • Question the implied changes to research methodologies Not only has the digitisation of historical newspapers made it easier to discover information about events ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/16/digitised-history-the-impact-of-digitisation-on-research-into-18th-and-19th-century-britain/ One of the projects in the Digging into Data Challenge is entitled Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters It traces the flow of correspondence between intellectuals in eighteenth-century Europe, thus helping giving an indication of the flow of ideas from writers such as Adam Smith, David Hume ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/12/tracking-the-exchange-of-ideas-in-the-enlightenment/ JISC has recently published its 02/10 call, entitled 'Deposit of research outputs and Exposing digital content for education and research.' Strand II, focussed on exposing digital content, may well be of interest to digitisation projects. Often digitisation projects develop specific interfaces so that their users can search and browse through the digitised ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/10/funding-for-releasing-your-digital-content/ The European Community recently held a meeting in Luxembourg to inform potential applicants about their the ICT Policy Support Programme. 30 million Euros have been allocated to the digital libraries strand which aims to improve accessibility, use and preservation of Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage. The call is broken ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/09/european-digital-libraries-funding-opportunities/ As an addition to its successful Freeze Frame digitisation project, JISC asked the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute to explore what was needed to export their collection of 20,000 digitised images to portals such as Europeana and Flickr, as well as to commerical image providers. The request led ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/09/exporting-metadata-to-portals/ Oxford University Computing Services is looking for a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term) to work on the RunCoCo project. The work involves: * running a communication campaign and developing engaging Web content to successfully promote the RunCoCo project and support its user community * managing project events and overseeing the production ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/03/part-time-project-officer-job-at-oxford-university/ Visual Resources Digitisation Officer (FIXED TERM CONTRACT) 5 months (1.0 FTE) or 10 months (0.5 FTE) ADD LINKS Salary: £27,318to £30,748 pa based on 1.0 FTE Location: Farnham Ref: 10-LIBR143-02 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 ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/22/visual-resources-digitisation-officer-job-vacancy/ The Arts and Humanities Research Council has released details of the winners of its 'Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact' scheme. 21 projects have been funded at a value of just over £4m. Dr GP Earl £232,575.00 School of Humanities, University of Southampton Reflectance Transformation Imaging Systems for Ancient Documentary Artefacts Professor J ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/18/winners-of-the-ahrcs-digital-programme/ 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, ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/17/european-conference-on-digital-libraries-call-for-papers/