Whether it’s about “solid” working outfits or “dainty” ladies’ clothes, the changes in fashion and lifestyle over the past century have been reflected in the images from the Worcester-based Kays & Co mail order catalogue, which are being digitised by the JISC-funded World of Kays project. Every day this week Project Manager Jennifer Waugh talks […]
Month: July 2011
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An uphill struggle
These Minyong Adi men are leading a mithun (bos frontalis) to a sacrifice, conducted to cure an illness. Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf noted that this animal resisted fiercely and finally fell down exhausted before it was successfully brought to the place for its sacrifice. From the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Fürer-Haimendorf collection (Any blog […]
Projects like UCL’s Transcribe Bentham and New York Public Library’s What’s on the Menu? have done groundbreaking work in engaging the public to transcribe their manuscript collections. Crowdsourcing allows rapid, and it seems high-quality, creation of transcribed data from original documents. Transcribe Bentham has so far created 1,330 transcribed versions, and only a handful have […]
A number of new digital collections for researchers, teachers and learners have been added to the JISC Content web site, including descriptions of Islamic manuscripts, virtual Darwin’s library and crowdsourced content on WW1 in Wales, flooding and early 21st Century life in Britain. The JISC Content website provides an introduction and links to over 80 […]
Visualising China, the JISC-funded digital archive of images on the history of China 1850-1950 launches today. There are a number of interesting features on this web site which was put together by the University of Bristol: – separate collections (Historical Photographs of China from the University of Bristol; the Sir Robert Hart Collection from Queen’s […]
It’s been a couple of years since the end of the JISC’s Enriching Digital Resources programme. The programme funded 25 projects, 24 of which were either digitising new content or enriching and clustering existing digtial resources. Given the concern JISC has for sustaining digital resources, we thought it we be good to run a quick […]
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Report on Parliamentary Metadata
The varied history of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom means it has a rich array of parliamentary sources, relating to not just the UK, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Various publishers, researchers and academic units have created resources such as the ProQuest Parliamentary Papers and the Stormont Papers of Northern Ireland Richard […]