You can now follow all the JISC innovation projects as they are funded and added to our PIMS database.
Still in an experimental stage, the feed allows all newly funded projects to appear on the Twitter feed: @jiscprojects
Follow new JISC projects here: http://twitter.com/jiscprojects
Please bear in mind this is still an experimental service, but it will be smoothed out and improved in the coming weeks.
Over 2000 recordings by British and Irish Muscians have been digitised and made available online in a project by Kings College, London.
The Musicains of Britain and Ireland 1900-1950 project is allowing listeners and researchers to rediscover leading musicians who were once household names.
Most of the recordings are making their first public appearance since they came out on shellac over 60 years ago and are linked to a range of research resources about the history of recording to help people make the most of the collection.
The discs were selected specifically to highlight world-class British and Irish performers recorded between 1900 and 1950, especially artists neglected by the newly-formed EMI after the merger of the Gramophone Co and Columbia in 1931.
For more information about this project and to listen to some samples,visit the JISC webpages
All the tracks and many more are all available on the CHARM website.
This week saw the launch of the Serving Soldier project at Kings College, London.
The project is providing online access to unique original documents and photographs held by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.
The project takes the multi-faceted role of the soldier as its central theme: Exposing a proportion of little known material (hidden stories) and provide a body of material of contemporary relevance to researchers, students and today’s serving soldiers.
Furthermore, the project has also commissioned and produced a play which was performed at Shrivenham Officers training camp.
The play entitled ‘Fighting Your Corner’ draws on historical collections (diaries, reports and first had accounts) relating to previous conflicts in Afghanistan.
One of the most interesting partnerships in the JISC Islamic Studies strand is that between the Wellcome Trust, King’s College London, and Egypt’s Biblioteca Alexandrina.
The Wellcome Trust, as part of its own digitisation programme, is digitising 500 manuscripts from its extensive collection.
17th century painting of a doctor taking a woman's pulse
King’s College London is developing a cataloguing tool which will allow for rapid description of the manuscripts according to a version of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) prepared for Arabic documents. The tool will then be available for others to use
The Biblioteca Alexandrina will then add the catalogue / descriptions and host the manuscripts for scholarly use.
At the half way point of the project, all 75,000 manuscript images have been digitised. The software is almost complete and work is beginning on describing the 500 manuscripts. The content will be online in early 2011.
More information is available from the Wellcome Trust webpages.
‘How easily can treasure
buried in the ground, gold hidden
however skilfully, escape from any man!
Seamus Heaney (transl.) Beowulf
A new exemplar community collection is now live: Project Woruldhord.
The project is trialling the processes and the community contributed collection (‘CoCoCo’) software being formed by the RunCoCo project.
The project is trying to collect any material that would be of help to people who wish to find out more about the Anglo-Saxon period of history and the language and literature.
The project is looking for images, audio/video recordings, handouts, essays, articles, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, and so on.
In particular it is hoped teachers/researchers will contribute teaching material they are happy to share with others.
The most important page to get started is:
http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
This takes you through the simple to use submission process where you can upload your object and provide some basic information about it.
If you have any questions please email the project: woruldhord@oucs.ox.ac.uk