Preparing collections for digitisation by Anna E Bülow and Jess Ahmon, is a new publication by Facet publishing on the practicalities of digitising archival collections.
The guide covers the whole process,
from selecting records for digitization to choosing suppliers and equipment and dealing with documents that present individual problems. As such, it can be used as a ‘how-to’ reference manual for collection managers who are embarking on a digitization project or who are managing an existing project. It also covers some of the wider issues such as the use of surrogates for preservation, and the long term sustainability of digital access.
Both Dr Anna E. Bülow and Jess Ahmon are based at The National Archives.
February 25, 2011 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment 57 proposals were received by JISC as part of Strand B of 11/10 (Developing Community Content) and 9 recevied funding. Total funding was £713,733.
Patients Partcipate!, University of Bath, Liz Lyon, £75,074
Patients Participate! will investigate the potential of crowdsourced “lay summaries”, derived from medical articles in the PubMed Central repository, as a means of enabling patients to better understand academic research into medical issues.
STEM WISHEES, Queen Mary, University of London, Teresa McConlogue, £83,176
The STEM WISHEES project is creating a collection of written texts and tasks with related learning resources. The collection will provide a searchable archive of texts which can be used by school teachers and academics to prepare students for the writing demands of university and employment, thus aiding transition from school to university.
MOSI-ALONG, University of Manchester, Andrew Whitworth, £55,295
The MOSI-ALONG project will allow communities to build their collections of digitised resources, based on existing physical collections of the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. In doing so, the project will address tensions between digitisation, curation and learning.
Faculty Podcasts, University of Leeds, James Harris, £100,000
Faculty Podcasts will create audio and video podcast study guides and other associated resources for A-level students created and presented by academic colleagues from the University of Leeds and other UK HEIs.
Scots Words and Place-Names, University of Glasgow, Carole Hough, £79,524.87
This is a collaboration between the University of Glasgow Enroller Project, Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD), and the Scottish Place-Name Society (SPNS). The aim is to make existing scholarly resources held by these three bodies publicly accessible as a basis for community collection building and the mutual exchange of information between lexicographers, place-name scholars and the public.
iSpot Local, Open University, Doug Clow, £100,000
iSpot Local will be a new web-based tool designed to widen participation in citizen science by enabling volunteers who live near each other to record and build a broader picture of biodiversity in their area. They can then turn this knowledge into action through understanding the best way to preserve and enhance their natural environment.
Cataloguing Kays, Worcester University, Rachel Johnson, £55,589.00
This project will celebrate the history and public memory of Kays Catalogues by creating a community web archive of memories and photographs invoked and inspired by an online collection of digitised images taken from 100 years of Kays Catalogues. The project will provide significant resources for study into such topical issues as health and body image in children and young people.
Engaging Overseas Communities, SOAS, Kathyrn Oakey, £85,114
SOAS will digitise a collection of more than 4,000 glass lantern slides taken overseas by missionaries from 1900 to 1950, and then, via mobile phones, allow citizens from rural Asia and Africa to comment on the historical slides and upload their own contemporary (and historical) images, videos, oral histories and documents to the website
CoDeX, Sheffield Hallam University, Feona Attwood, £80,000
This project will crate resources for front line workers in relation to sexual health, sexual awareness, media and technology by developing a platform for the engagement and co-creation of content by two communities: (i) front line staff and (ii) subject experts in understanding the needs and uses of evidence based research by such front line staff.
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2 Comments Five projects were selected from the 45 proposals submitted to JISC Call 16/10 Rapid Digitisation.
Three of the projects, marked below with asterisks, are conditional on clearance of various project issues.
From cemetery to clinic **, University of Bradford, Andrew Wilson, £93,199
Leprosy is a debilitating disease with a strong social stigma. Once common throughout the old world, it is still encountered in the developing world. This project seeks to digitise data pertaining to leprous medieval skeletons and clinical x-rays of modern sufferers to allow medical historians, palaeopathologists, clinicians and the interested public to observe and better understand the skeletal lesions of this disease, how they manifest across the skeleton and how they arise.
Royal Naval WWI logs, University of Oxford, Chris Lintott, £79,995
This project aims to digitize the National Archive’s collection of ships’ logs from the period around the First World War, thus extending the work being completed through the highly successful Old Weather citizen science project. These logs harbour information of particular interest to naval historians, but also serve a pressing need for historical weather observations in the climate science community.
York Cause Papers **, University of York, Stephen Town, £69,790
This project will digitise the York Cause Papers, 1600‐1800, a highly significant collection of manuscript material, in great demand by academics, and also increasingly requested by local and family historians. The papers record the proceedings of the church courts which had wide jurisdiction including over cases concerning marriage, sexual morality, defamation and slander.
Cartoon Archive Rapid Digitisation project (CARD), University of Kent, Nicholas Hiley, £85,000
The British Cartoon Archive will digitise a further 16,000 cartoon items, covering the two undigitised collections in greatest demand by researchers at the BCA. These are modern cuttings collection, comprising 14,500 political cartoons from British national newspapers and magazines between 2003 and 2011; and the Director of Public Prosecutions’ archive, which records the prosecution for obscenity of 1,300 cartoon seaside postcards between 1951 and 1961
Rapid 3D digitisation of Sheffield Metalwork collection **, Sheffield Hallam University, Marcos A Rodrigues, £79,113
Rapid 3D digitisation of Sheffield Metalwork collection The project will digitise contents from the Sheffield Museum Metalwork Collection using state-of-the-art fast 3D scanning technologies developed at Sheffield Hallam University. The 3D models will be made available and visualized through standard web browsers.
Early Music Online, Royal Holloway, Stephen Rose, £75,521
This is a pilot project that will digitise 300 volumes of the world’s earliest printed music from holdings at the British Library, and make them publicly accessible via the internationally-recognised RISM UK music database hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London. These volumes contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions, which will be individually indexed. The digitised content and metadata will be linked to the British Library Integrated Catalogue and COPAC, in order to maximise the exposure and discoverability of these sources of unique international importance.
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3 Comments Amongst very tough competition (35 bids were received in total, many of which were worthy of funding), JISC has funded 8 projects within its Enriching via Collaboration strand. Total funding came for the strand came to £625,493.
Two of the projects, marked below with asterisks, are conditional on clearance of various project issues.
AstroDAbis, University of Glasgow, Norman Gray, £74,204
AstroDabis will enable astronomers to record annotations about data stored in archives (e.g. positions, shapes and brightnesses of celestial sources) and have them published in a manner which makes them directly queryable in conjunction
Opening Veterinary Access to Literature (OVAL) **, Nick Short, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, £92,728
The Opening Veterinary Access to Literature (OVAL) project involves the repackaging of currently restricted-view veterinary educational resources into an open format, which will then be made freely accessible to an international audience of veterinary online learners.
Windows on Genius, Rob Iliffe, University of Sussex, £84,732
Windows on Genius will develop mechanisms for enriching and combining two important collections of documents created by Isaac Newton: the transcriptions of the Newton Project, based at Sussex, and the digital facsimiles of Newton’s papers, being prepared for online delivery by Cambridge University.
NAM **, Paul Lowe, University of the Arts, £74,204
NAM initially seeks to bring together the photographic archives of Phillip Jones Griffiths, the film archive of Stanley Kubrick, and the journalistic archive of Phillip Knightley in an interactive multimedia resource that looks at the resonances of the conflict in Vietnam today.
Parliamentary Discourses, Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow, £82,324.56
This project will enhance and enrich data from two hundred years of the UK Parliament in order to expose it to a wider audience within HE and to the general public. Using advanced text-processing techniques, names and topics will be identified within Hansard, thereby providing a richer data source for linguists, historians, cultural scholars, and the citizen.
Locating London’s Past, Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield, £ 96,836
Locating London’s Past will create an intuitive GIS interface that will enable researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth and eighteenth-century London against a version of John Rocque’s 1746 map of London and the first accurate modern OS map (1869-80). It will also make these data and maps available within Google Maps, allowing for the analysis of the data with open source visualization tools. The interface will be readily expandable to include additional data sets and maps (both modern and historic).
HERSTORY, Sarah Wickham, University of Huddersfield, £ 42,545
This project will repair, rehouse, repurpose and relaunch the resource From History to Her story – 90,000 images of primary sources for Yorkshire women’s lives 1100 to the present day.
Living Books About Life, Gary Hall, Coventry University, £78,369
The LiviBL project will develop a sustainable series of co-edited, electronic open access books about life – with life understood both philosophically and biologically – which will provide a bridge between the humanities and the science.
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An 1864 playbill, for performances at the City of London Theatre. From the East London Theatre Archive
(See here for details of the updated timetable for the JISC eContent Calls)
February 3, 2011 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment Due to staff illness, and the large number of bids received we’re a couple of days behind with the original timetable. Emails to all winning and rejected projects may be sent out the week beginning 31st Jan, or they may go out the week beginning 7th Feb
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For those waiting to receive news of their proposals to the JISC Calls for Enhancing Digital Content, Developing Community Content or Rapid Digitisation, the is the timetable we are aiming to follow, illness, weather and the JISC Review notwithstanding.
Friday 7th January – All marks received from peer reviewers
Wednesday 19th – Panel Meeting for JISC Call 11/10.
Strand A (Enhancing Digital Content) and Strand B (Developing Community Content)
Thursday 20th – Panel Meeting for JISC Call 16/10, Rapid Digitisation
w/b Monday 31st January – Finalise details of successful and unsuccessful projects after any comments from peer reviewers unable to attend panel meetings
w/b Monday 31st January – Email successful and unsuccessful projects
w/b Monday 7th – Send off grant letters
w/b Monday 7th – Announce winners.
March 1st – Projects start
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