Update on recent JISC e-Content calls
The JISC e-Content team has had plenty of calls and ITTs flying around recently. Here is where we are with them.
- The peer-review meeting for the JISC-NEH transatlantic collaboration grants has been held. 28 proposals were received, and these have now been whittled down to four. Assuming these four are ratified by the NEH Council in July, they will be announced at the end of July / start of August
- 47 proposals were received for e-Content 02/09 call, 19 under Strand A (Institutional Skills and Strategies) and 28 under Strand B (Clustering and Enhancing). We expect to be able to inform winners in late July
- 6 proposals were received for the call on the digitisation of Islamic Studies catalogues and manuscripts. Again, we expect to be able to inform winners in late July
- The deadline for the Digging into Data call is 15 July. Currently JISC have £200,000 available in total for this competition but are looking into ways into getting extra funding.
- Grant letters for the winners of the workshops on challenges and achievements in e-content and digitisation are currently being distributed, and the winners will be publicly announced in a week or two.
Improve your online presence: free workshops
The Strategic Content Alliance has just announced aseries of workshops across the UK that will look at the digital content lifecycle from creation to curation.
Details of the workshops can be found below, with further information on the Strategic Content Alliance’s blog.
These FREE workshops from the Strategic Content Alliance and Netskills introduce simple and inexpensive search engine optimisation techniques to improve your online presence, web visibility and website traffic.
Topics include:
• Maximising access and removing barriers to your content
• The importance of a structured approach to preparing content
• Content integrity and reaching the right audience
• Metadata and its significance
• Sustainable content and future proofing
• The social web and marketingThe workshops are aimed primarily at delegates from universities, archives, museums, health, public service broadcasting, schools and cultural heritage. No particular technical knowledge is required as a prerequisite.
Dates, locations and registration
Belfast
10:30 Monday 29 June – 15:30 Tuesday 30 June 2009
The Mount Conference Centre – register for this workshopEdinburgh
09:30 Thursday 2 July – 16:15 Friday 3 July 2009
Grosvenor Hilton Hotel – register for this workshopLondon
09:30 Monday 27 July – 16:15 Tuesday 28 July 2009
JISC Meeting Rooms, Brettenham House – register for this workshopCardiff
09:30 Thursday 30 July – 16:15 Friday 31 July 2009
Hilton Hotel – register for this workshop
JORUM’S Learning and Teaching Competition
Entries for the 2009 Jorum Learning & Teaching competition are now open.
This is the third year that the Association for Learning Technology has run the awards. The competition previously known as the Learning Object competition, will be asking for the submission of exciting and innovative learning and teaching resources that have been created under a Creative Commons licence to showcase at the conference.
The Award will be presented at ALT’s annual conference, ALT-C, during the Wednesday Gala dinner on 9 September. This year ALT-C will be held at Manchester, 8 – 10 September 2009.
The deadline for entries is 3rd July 2009.
First, second and third prizes kindly donated by Intrallect will be awarded to the top three resources entered. 1st prize £300; 2nd prize £200; 3rd prize £100.
Full competition details can be found on the JORUM competitions page.
British Film Institute puts 600 hours of film online
The British Film Institute has announceed the completion of a ground breaking project to give academics, teachers, students and researchers free online access to hundreds of hours of film and television. Available through the BFI National Archive these clips tell the complex social, economic and political history of Britain in the 20th century.
Funded by JISC as part of its digitisation programme, BFI InView: Moving Images in the Public Sphere comprises more than 600 hours of full-length films and television programmes, alongside over 8,000 pages of related documents that have been digitised and made exclusively available to colleges and universities via a dedicated website.
Accessible through federated access management, meaning HE and FE users can view the materials with a single sign-on, the BFI InView site is easily searchable with materials catalogued and organised under six main categories:
• Education
• Health
• The Environment
• Immigration, Race and Equality
• Industry and Economy
• Law and Order