We recently ran a workshop after a long period of consultation about out future approach to digisation. The resulting workshop report: Summary Report: New Business Models for Digitisation sets out a direction of travel for us and our key partners and stakeholders. Jisc has a long history of undertaking digitisation initiatives. Back in 1993 the Joint […]
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Peggy Glahn of Reveal Digital concluded a recent guest post on this blog by stating: As proven by the Independent Voices project, Reveal Digital is building an exciting and innovative approach to open access publishing that puts libraries in control of their own content while providing scholars with important new primary source material to support […]
You may be interested to know that Reveal Digital’s Independent Voices is now available to UK Higher Education institutions for pledging via the Jisc Collections catalogue at https://goo.gl/YmbH7Q. The pledging period runs until 31 July 2017. Reveal Digital have developed a digital collection made up of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals from the latter […]
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 […]
New funding for eContent is available from JISC in the following areas: Strand A: Digitisation for Open Educational Resources (OER) Release of digitised educational content for use and re-use on an open access basis through digitisation of special collections and subsequent creation of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for embedding in teaching and learning. Funding available: […]
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 […]
We’re still not in a position to give precise details on the forthcoming call for JISC digital content (and the hoped for early publication of details last month proved a little optimistic). However, we’ve been given permission to publicise the following. Subject to confirmation from the appropriate JISC subcommittee, there will be three strands within […]
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Timetable for current JISC Content calls
For those waiting to receive news of their proposals to the JISC Calls for Enhancing Digital Content, Developing Community Content or Rapid Digitisation, the is the timetable we are aiming to follow, illness, weather and the JISC Review notwithstanding. Friday 7th January – All marks received from peer reviewers Wednesday 19th – Panel Meeting for […]
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Bids received for JISC Content Calls
JISC has now received all the submissions for its content calls. The number of bids was significantly higher than expected. 11/10 Strand A – Enriching Digital Content – 35 bids (Up to 5 projects likely to be funded) 11/10 Strand B – Developing Community Content – 57 bids (Up to 6 projects likely to be […]
JISC is looking for digital content projects interested in having links to their resources from two gateways, MediaHub and CultureGrid (and by extension a third, Europeana) MediaHub (currently in development for 2011) will provide access to image, video and audio resources in Higher and Further Education. It evolves from the Vision and Sound Portal at […]
Following on from yesterday’s blog post about the Enriching via Collaboration and Developing Community Content strand of funding, JISC has added a further tranche of funding in its eContent and Digitisation programme. This is for Rapid Digitisation projects. A total of £400k funding is available, and it is expected that 6 to 7 projects will […]
JISC has recently funded seven new projects to explore the Impact and Embedding of Digitised Resources. The aims of the programme are to: Facilitate institutions in carrying out an analysis of the impact of their digitised resources/collections that have been live for at least one calendar year. To develop strategies and practical solutions to ensure […]
JISC has just announced funding for its Grant call 7/10: e-Content and Digitisation programme: Impact and Embedding of digitised resources. Funding of up to £150,000 is available for projects addressing the impact and embedding of digitised resources. It is anticipated that 4-6 projects will be funded and the maximum funding for any one project is […]
JISC has recently published its 02/10 call, entitled ‘Deposit of research outputs and Exposing digital content for education and research.’ Strand II, focussed on exposing digital content, may well be of interest to digitisation projects. Often digitisation projects develop specific interfaces so that their users can search and browse through the digitised collections. However, the […]
The European Community recently held a meeting in Luxembourg to inform potential applicants about their the ICT Policy Support Programme. 30 million Euros have been allocated to the digital libraries strand which aims to improve accessibility, use and preservation of Europe’s rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage. The call is broken up into six […]
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Winners of the AHRC’s Digital Programme
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has released details of the winners of its ‘Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact’ scheme. 21 projects have been funded at a value of just over £4m. Dr GP Earl £232,575.00 School of Humanities, University of Southampton Reflectance Transformation Imaging Systems for Ancient Documentary Artefacts Professor J Ellis […]
Last week it was announced that HEFCE would be making funds available for some of the JISC funding calls that had been postponed. e-Content currently has a call out on Developing Community Collections. Strand II of this call has been on hold while HEFCE made their decision on funding. It has been announced that funds […]
As you have probably seen, JISC has frozen its current and future funding calls for ‘capital-funded’ projects but not ‘core-funded’ projects. The current call within the BCE and e-Content programmes for Developing community content draws its funds from both capital and core funding. For those planning Strand I bids (Rapid user innovation), the call is […]
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New JISC funding call published
The JISC call for developing community content has now been published on the JISC website. Brief details about the call were mentioned in a previous blog post. Questions about the nature of the call can be sent to Alastair Dunning; and questions about the application process can be sent to Avalon McAllister.
Following the success of projects such as the University of Oxford’s Great War Archive, JISC have continued exploration into the concept of community collections, that is digital resources that are created or enhanced by both user groups inside and outwith traditional academic audiences. 1914 Christmas ‘Comforts tin’ and card, from the Great War Archive This […]