Registration is now open for Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content, 20 May 2011, Oxford. The question of how we can measure and understand the usage and impact of digital content within the education sector is becoming increasingly important. Substantial investment goes into the creation of digital […]
Month: March 2011
HEFCE recently confirmed its capital funding for 2011-12, including the capital budget for JISC. This means that JISC are planning the next round of calls within it various teams. Within the eContent Programme, there will be further funds for digitisation and content. Current thinking is tending toward the bullet points below Call for large digitisation […]
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Saucy seaside postcards online
The recently JISC-funded Cartoon Archive Digitisation project (CARD) has caught the attention of the press recently. One of the collections that the University of Kent’s British Cartoons Archive will be digitising includes the Director of Public Prosecutions’ archive, which records the prosecution for obscenity of 1,300 cartoon seaside postcards between 1951 and 1961. The other […]
The final conference of the IMPACT project will take place on 24-25 October 2011 at the British Library in London, with the title: “Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper. Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges” The IMPACT Project (Improving Access to Text) started on 1st January 2008 with the aim to […]
A 350-year-old notebook describing the execution of innocent women for ‘consorting with the Devil’ has been published online by The University of Manchester’s John Rylands library as part of the JISC funded Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) project. The notebook was written by Puritan writer Nehemiah Wallington who describes how a supposed […]
An additional project joins the list of the winning proposals under the JISC Rapid Digitisation call 16/10. 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 […]
Having recently announced the winning projects for the latest eContent (Strand A and Strand B) and Rapid Digitisation calls, as Programme Managers we’ve also had to provide feedback to the unsuccessful bids we received, many of which were nonetheless of a high quality. While going through the process, some common “feedback” patterns emerged, which might […]