As part of its initial work in digitising its huge collection of historic newspapers, the British Library received two tranches of funding from JISC to digitise 3m pages from its Colindale repository. As part of a three-way project involving the BL, JISC and the publishers Gale-Cengage, these newspapers have been made available in two different […]
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Clustering content Europe wide
It’s great to see the Europeana Collections 1914-18 project get under way, bringing together sizeable digital collections from a range of European librares, and focussing them on a particular theme – in this case World War One The concept of clustering of digital content on a particular topic has been on the radar for a […]
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Using archives on Vietnam war
The NAM project at the University of the Arts, London is bringing together the photographic archives of Phillip Jones Griffiths, aspect of the film archive of Stanley Kubrick, and the journalistic archive of Phillip Knightley in an interactive multimedia resource that looks at the resonances of the conflict in Vietnam today. It then gets students […]
Boutiques, Shopping Malls and Specialist Shops (or put your content where the users are, not where you are) This presentation looks at why content owners such as universities, museums, archives etc need to deposit their digitised matieral not just on their own bespoke websites, but also the popular websites such as Google, Flickr, Wikipedia and […]
What would a UK Digital Collection look like? A glittering digital library or museum, with informative stunning, collections that represent the UK? A series of artworks, scientific discoveries, images, poems, documents, performances and programmesthat have played an essential role in shaping and informing UK society. But that word ‘represents’ is a really thorny one. Who […]
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Strategic or Open Digitisation?
The recent projects that JISC has funded as part of its Content Programme contain a fascinating range of materials – archives relating to the 18th-century Board of Longitude, the UK’s collection of fossils and reports documenting the health of modern London. But the fascination of such an eclectic range of sources could also be construed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Update on JISC Content Call 06/11
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 […]
Some of the projects in the recent JISC Community Collections programme and Strand B of the eContent programme 2011 have looked at digital content as an opportunity for higher education institutions to engage more creatively and effectively with schools and employers. Interacting with digital content can provide imaginative ways of filling the gap in resources […]
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 […]
If you are planning to submit a proposal to the current JISC eContent Capital programme 06/11, please note the following guidance updates: – Appendices: as stated in the funding call in paragraph 128, no extra appendices are allowed to be included in addition to the ones requested by the Call for proposals (FOI tick list […]