JPEG 2000 for the practitioner – a one-day seminar A free seminar to explore and examine the use of JPEG 2000 in the cultural heritage industry will be held at the Wellcome Trust. The seminar will include specific case studies of JPEG 2000 use. It will explain technical issues that have an impact on practical […]
A Rockhopper penguin, taken on British expedition to the Falkland Islands in 1936 The image is available from the Freeze Frame website, published by the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge
The Visualising China Project is hosting a one-day workshop in Bristol on Tuesday 21st September, with presentations and discussion on the topic of cross-searching distributed, interrelated, online resources. Presentations will include: The Visualising China project which currently harvests data linking to two large, separate image collections. Connected Histories project will present their experiences in cross-searching […]
“As the Headmaster came into lunch, he slipped into my side-pocket a copy of the ‘New Era’ dealing with problems of Marriage and Sex. Why? A nice gesture of friendliness, anyway.” The above is a transcribed excerpt from a teacher’s diary from Keswick, Cumbria in 1937, the typescript of which is below. It is part […]
The Stand is one of the oldest streets in London. It follows the line of the Roman road of Akeman, and lies on the Saxon boundary of Aldwych. The Strand is located in the centre of London. It is the eye in a storm of diverse people, communities, societies and organisations that inhabit this busy […]
28 Oct: Khrushchev promised that the Soviet bases on Cuba, that sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis would be removed. The bases had been the subject of a tense standoff between the Soviet Union and the USA. Cartoon from the Daily Mail, 29th October 1962. By Leslie Gilbert Illingworth. Image and caption from the British Cartoon […]
JISC hosted an initial meeting of its Digital Content Taskforce in London on 27th July 2010. Delegates at the meeting discussed the current issues in digitising and creating digital content for educational use. Below are the key themes from the presentations and the break out sessions (they can also be downloaded as a pdf). Links […]
The four thousand 18th and 19th century ballads that make up the Welsh Ballads Digitisation project at Cardiff University have gone live on a new website. The project has made around 15,000 pages of rare Welsh ballads available online. The collection also includes some of the ballads sung and available digitally. The ballads give an […]
The web interface http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/ which has recently been set up to provide a more user friendly way of navigating the content that JISC funding has helped made available to the HE and FE communities. The site is not aiming to give item level access to each collection, i.e. it is not a federated search in […]
I have recently attended a number of events on the role(s) of Public engagement in the Arts and Humanities. As a result I thought it might be useful to document some of the key issues that arose from these events, and some of the actions institutions and departments have been taking to deal with these […]