Following recent discoveries in the John Rylands Library Special Collections, UNDEREXSPOSED is an exhibition in Collaboration with The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), celebrating the life of one of Manchester’s early photographic pioneers, J.T. Chapman. Chemist, inventor and photographer, Chapman invented some of the processes that were to become standard in early photography. However, […]
Month: September 2010
Following on from yesterday’s blog post about the Enriching via Collaboration and Developing Community Content strand of funding, JISC has added a further tranche of funding in its eContent and Digitisation programme. This is for Rapid Digitisation projects. A total of £400k funding is available, and it is expected that 6 to 7 projects will […]
In relation to the forthcoming call from eContent Programme, JISC is hosting “Digital Content Partnerships” on 28 October 2010. The event, open to all, will be to offer further information on the call, offer opportunities to form partnerships as part of proposals for the call and to engage further with JISC’s campaign for digital content. […]
JISC has recently funded seven new projects to explore the Impact and Embedding of Digitised Resources. The aims of the programme are to: Facilitate institutions in carrying out an analysis of the impact of their digitised resources/collections that have been live for at least one calendar year. To develop strategies and practical solutions to ensure […]
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Popes In Britain
Images all from the Visual Arts Data Service Pius VI, by Goulet, 1803, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham Clement VII, by School of Sebastiano del Piombo, 1527-34, Pollok House, Glasgow Pope Benedict XIII, (Italian School), 1720s, Grosvenor Museum, Chester Christ and the Pope, (German School), late sixteenth century, Pollok House, Glasgow Alexander VIII as […]
Earlier this month, JISC supported a workshop on the University of Nottingham on the development of gazetteers – historic dictionaries of place names (and other geographical information) and their co-ordinates or other appropriate reference. Plenty of work is being done throughout the UK on research on place names, and many projects are keen to exploit […]
FREE 2 day workshops to be held in (follow links for registration) • Belfast, 14 September 2010 – 15 September 2010 • Glasgow, 7th October 2010 – 8th October 2010 • London, 12th October 2010 – 13th October 2010 • Manchester, 28th October 2010 – 29th October 2010 • London, 16th November 2010 – 17th […]
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Thoughts on CyberScience conference
Last week saw the Citizen Cyberscience event at King’s College London, and it featured plenty of ambitious scientific research projects making extensive use of the enthusiasms and knowledge of an international public. Projects on show included Einstein @home, which used volunteer’s PCs to detect various astronomical phenomenoa, and herberia @home, a distributed project to classify […]
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Birds of Paradise
The following is an image taken from the Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care project at John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. The images is one of many beautiful hand painted plates of birds, created between 1891 -98. The image is a result of the project working with the Folio Society to create a […]