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		<title>Follow the progress of the JISC Content projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can now keep up with the progress of the projects funded as part of the JISC Content programme 2011-2013 on the programme&#8217;s new Netvibes pages.


Netvibes syndicates content from the projects&#8217; blogs and brings them all in one place, so it makes it easier to have a general overview of activities.
My top picks:
- Manufacturing pasts&#8216; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/08/follow-the-progress-of-the-jisc-content-projects/</link>
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		<title>Launch of 3D Sheffield metalwork collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week saw the launch of the JISC-funded 3D Sheffield metalwork collection. 

This rapid digitisation project was a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University, which brought their expertise in innovative 3D digitisation, and Museums Sheffield, which is delivering the 3D objects on their website.
Highlights of the web site incude: 
- 200 beautiful 3D objects, browsable through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/02/launch-of-3d-sheffield-metalwork-collection/</link>
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		<title>Meshing Research and Digitisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the successes of digitisation, it’s still a long, slow route from scanner to published article (or even monograph). Your team can create a rich, engaging website, but it takes plenty of time for scholars to start to work with the new material. It slips slowly into their ideas and interpretations, perhaps helped, perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/27/meshing-research-and-digitisation/</link>
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		<title>Some Findings from a Crowdsourcing Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scots Words and Place Names, run at the University of Glasgow, engaged the Scottish public via a variety of channels (direct contact with schools, a website, Facebook, Twitter) to enrich understanding of the uses and meanings of words and place names in Scots.
The final report, just published, has some interesting findings

This crowdsourcing project was incredibly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/27/some-findings-from-a-crowdsourcing-project/</link>
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		<title>Utopian DH Project 2: Art History is Words not Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet first strengthened then destroyed the idea of a canon of art history.
Early Internet dreamers saw the possibility of the utopian virtual museum, drawing together all the world’s great masterpieces to present a coherent narrative of the history of art. But the very proliferation of images that appeared on the web demonstrated the pointlessness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/24/utopian-dh-project-2-art-history-is-words-not-images/</link>
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		<title>Utopian DH Project 1: An Ecumenical Resource for Church History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Prompted by a tweet from Tim Hitchcock, this is a series of short blog posts on imaginary / future resources in the Digital Humanities)
When charting the history of the west, churches, cathedrals and abbeys provide spectacular material evidence. Their art, architecture and archives not only formed notions of aesthetic beauty but are testament to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/23/utopian-dh-project-1-an-ecumenical-resource-for-church-history/</link>
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		<title>BBC picks on new JISC Content OER projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two projects within the current JISC Content programme 2011-2013 have been recently picked up by BBC News.
Observing the 1980s, based at the University of Sussex, will make available as Open Educational Resources (OER) written and oral testimonies from people from a range of backgrounds on what it was like to live in 1980s Britain. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/16/bbc-picks-on-new-jisc-content-oer-projects/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;WW1 Discovery: Content prioritisation&#8221; &#8211; Winning project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JISC is delighted to announce that King’s College London has been awarded funding for a project on &#8220;WW1 Discovery: Content Prioritisation&#8221;  
This work will undertake essential primary research that will guide and underpin the wider JISC WW1 Discovery programme which aims to aggregate and deliver WW1 content by building an aggregation, API and discovery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/12/ww1-discovery-content-prioritisation-winning-project/</link>
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		<title>Digital Copyright Exchange &#8211; Call for Evidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The excerpt below is from the Intellectual Property Office website. The planned Exchange will be of great interest to those digitising orphan or in copyright works, hopefully leading to a acceleration of the process of rights clearance.
On 22 November Business Secretary Vince Cable announced the appointment of Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/12/digital-content-exchange/</link>
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		<title>The Digital Humanities surrounds you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stanley Fish recently published a blog post in the NY Times with the grandiose title, The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality. The article is engaging; it seems to sharpen the knife for the Digital Humanities but then decides not to stick it in (although that might be to follow)
What strikes me about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/01/10/the-digital-humanities-surrounds-you/</link>
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