http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org News from the UK Digitisation Programme Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:24:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The second release of the JISC-funded John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera, a collaboration between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest, is now available at http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk and http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.com. The project reported that "usage Statistics for the John Johnson Collection resource during the first two months since the launch (March 2008) ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/08/26/early-usage-of-the-john-johnson-collection/ The East London Theatre Archive is creating an invaluable database of performing arts resources, from playbills and programmes to press cuttings and photographs. It will consist of around 15,000 digital objects, taken from East London theatres. As an extra part of their work, they have commissioned photography of some of the ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/08/15/using-flickr-for-digital-resources/ The Wellcome Library – part of the Wellcome Trust – is currently developing a new strategy which will include a programme to digitise the Library’s unique and significant, out-of-copyright, holdings. Given the scale of the task – preliminary projections suggest that the size of the collection (excluding the in-copyright material) ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/08/04/wellcome-trust-digitisation-request-for-suppliers/ The Great War Archive web site, part of the JISC-funded First World War Poetry Digital Archive project, is a powerful example of how communities can be galvanised in the creation of a unique and poignant online resource for the benefit of the wider public. An article on the Times Higher Education ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/17/communities-and-online-collections/ Following the designation of Islamic Studies as a strategically important subject by the UK Government in June 2007, JISC commissioned a review of user requirements for digitised resources for researchers and teachers within higher education working in the field of Islamic Studies. The University of Exeter carried out the study ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/09/requirements-for-digitised-resources-in-islamic-studies/ As part of its development, the Pre-Raphaelite Resource digitisation project recently commissioned an audience research study to consult users about whether the inclusion of Web 2.0 features on a resource of this type would be useful or important to the education community. The report indicated that: “there is some readiness ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/07/is-academia-ready-for-web-20/ The programme for the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, Radical Sharing: Transforming Science? has just been announced, and very interesting it is too. But in the rush to explore the issues related to the preservation of terabytes of astronomical or physical data, it's worth remembering that it not just the sciences ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/02/large-scale-preservation-not-just-science/ The Stormont Papers resources makes available the debates from the parliament of Northern Ireland (Stormont) from creation in 1921 until the end of Home Rule in 1971. It's been available since 2006 and some statistics from the website are available. Of most interest is graph showing the spread of search terms ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/19/the-long-tail-of-usability/ Measuring the use and impact of digitised resources is no easy exercise. This is not only because of the changing nature of information seeking behaviour of different audiences, which has an effect on how users engage with digital resources. It is also due to the challenge in establishing appropriate ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/12/measuring-the-impact-of-digitised-resources/ The JISC is making up to £2m funding available for digitisation-related work under the following three headings. More information is available from the circular (Word document) 1. Pilot and small-scale digitisation. Proposals may focus on undertaking pilot digitisation, small-scale digitisation or a smaller feasibility study prior to larger scale activity. ... http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/10/extra-funding-enriching-digital-resources/