The European Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana. In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to: – put in place solid plans for their investments […]
Month: October 2011
23 projects have been selected as part of the JISC Content Programme for 2011-13. The project are formed into three strands of work, detailed below. ——– A total of 18 proposals were received for Strand A which supported digitisation and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER). The peer review panel selected 9 projects for funding. […]
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JISC funding for WW1 OER
JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for a project to create innovative Open Educational Resources (OERs) around the theme of World War One. The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon UK time on 5th December 2011. Funding of £80,000 is available for a single project starting from […]
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Crowdsourcing health information
One of the main issues with crowdsourcing is the reliability of the information provided by an often anonymous public. This is particularly the case when dealing with medical and health related information. Patient Participate!, one of the JISC-funded community collections projects, tackled this problem and brought together the British Library, UKOLN and the Association of […]
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Connected Histories widget
The Connected Histories site now has a widget that you can put on your website. Details are available from the website and you can test it out below.
Creating a Hive of Activity: Why we need to adopt APIs for Digitised Content Presentation from the 3rd EBLIDA-LIBER Workshop on Digitisation, October 2011
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Early Music Online
Early Music Online is a pilot project in which 300 of the world’s earliest surviving volumes of printed music, held in the British Library, have been digitised and made freely available online. You can browse the digitised content in Royal Holloway’s digital repository. Pages from Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci di Pietro […]