The peer review panels for the JISC Content Call (06/11) were held last week, for all three strands. Recommendations for funding have now been made and these will be circulated to the markers who were unable to attend the meetings last week. Once the recommendations have been approved, JISC Policy staff will be in touch […]
JISC invites tenders to research key aspects of future World War One (WW1) digital content development in readiness for the centenary commemoration of the conflict from 2014 onwards. This research is intended to provide understanding in 3 key areas: WW1 content and collections that are available to education in analogue and digital form; Teaching, learning […]
Given the dramatic events concerning the recent riots in England, I was interested to find news of an AHRC-funded project Around 1968: Activists, Networks and Trajectories, based at the Department of Modern History at the University of Oxford. According to the news item on the AHRC website, the project undertook “hundreds of interviews with former […]
Application received for the recent call for JISC Content (06/11) Strand A, Digitisation for Open Educational Resources (OER): 18 applications (8-12 projects between £75,000 and £125,000 each will be funded) Strand B Mass Digitisation: 68 applications (7-9 projects between £150,000 and £750,000 each) Strand C, Clustering Digital Content: 23 applications (6-8 projects between £100,000 and […]
JISC has just published the reports from its 2009-11 Content Programme in multiple formats, including ePub for eBook readers. There were two strands to the programme, and the case studies in the report will be useful for those who wish to a) develop digitisation strategies within their own institutions or b) create websites that cluster […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(This blog post coincides with the publication of the recommendations of the JISC Film and Sound Think Tank – pdf report) JISC has invested signficant amounts in two fine archives of of moving images. NewsFilm Online contains over 3,000 hours of film featuring events such as the Crystal Palace fire, an early interview with Nelson […]
JISC is holding an online town meeting for those interested in the applying for funding in the latest eContent call The town meeting is on Tuesday 21st June and starts at 11am. The town meeting is being run via some software called Elluminate / Blackboard Connect. This is free and particpaints should follow this link […]
The eight projects from the international Digging into Data programme presented their project findings at a conference in Washington DC in June 2011. Much was discussed; here are the pertinent topics from a JISC point of view. Visualisation of data was a crucial medium. If you have results from over 190,000 trials (as the Data […]
Presentation given at Digging into Data conference in Washington DC, June 2011 Download the presentation via Slideshare
a) After using the British Library Archival Sound Recordings website, an FE teacher commented: “The realism of it [interviews with photographers included on the site] inspired students and encouraged them to source other material beyond Google searches. It also placed the photographs in context, which you don’t get from Google.” b) A teacher who incorporated […]
A recent article in the Guardian notes plans of the British Library, working with the commercial firm BrightSolid, to digitise around 40m pages from their 750m pages of their historic newspaper archive. The article points out that these newspapers form something of a ‘national memory’ but also implies that this is the first time that […]
JISC Programme Managers, Alastair Dunning and Paola Marchionni, will be giving presentations related to current and future JISC funding at various events in June. If you are interested in discussing funding bids please come along – all the events below are open to any interested delegate. 2nd June – London Digital Humanities Group, Central London […]
1. After using the British Library Archival Sound Recordings web site, an FE teacher commented: “The realism of it [interviews with photographers included on the site] inspired students and encouraged them to source other material beyond Google searches. It also placed the photographs in context, which you don’t get from Google.” 2. A teacher who […]
Last week, the Oxford Internet Institute held an event to mark the end of the JISC Impact and Embedding Programme The programme allowed seven digital resources to judge their impact so far and then began to embed changes to allow their resources to be more responsive to users. Each of these resources now has a […]
(Note all the JISC Content Call is still to be signed off by the relevant JISC sub-committee) Unlike strands A and B, Strand C will focus on existing digital content, and how it can be brought together. Specific JISC programmes have looked at this issue previously such as strand B of the JISC eContent programme […]
As noted in a previous blog post, JISC is currently writing the request for proposals for applications related to the next round of content funding. Subject to approval by the relevant JISC subcommittee, there will be three strands. Over the next few days, we’ll jot down some of the issues related to each of the […]
