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 […]
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 […]
On the need for digital entrepreneurs to push forward the digital research and teaching in a university
There are still a few places left for the event Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content, 20 May, Oxford Digital Impacts will discuss methodologies for measuring the impact of digitised resources and embedding them in teaching and research; it will present projects from the JISC-funded Impact and […]
JISC last year supported a workshop looking into the issues related to creating, exploiting and sustaining gazeeteers of UK place names. It was hosted by the Institute for Name Studies at the University of Nottingham, and organised by Professor Lorna Hughes (now of the National Library of Wales) and Dr Paul Ell (Queen’s University Belfast) […]
JISC hosted the New Strategies for Digital Content conference in London on March 18 2011. The event looked at two themes the need for institutions to develop the necessary skills and strategies to embed digitisation within institutional strategies and practices as well as devise effective business models for the long term sustainability of digitised content […]
If you are involved in crowdsourcing, collections or digital projects you are invited to attend a one day conference at Oxford University on 26th May which will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC. The conference will be of interest to learning […]
JISC held a programme meeting for the 22 new projects in its eContent programme for 2011, in Oxford on 28/9 March. The presentations from the day are available below: Paola Marchionni, Working with JISC Alastair Dunning, Being a Good Data Provider Sarah Fahmy, Partnerships and Collaboration Paola Marchionni, Improving usage and impact of digitised resources […]
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Oxford and Cambridge unite
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have recently completed a project to create digital versions of the catalogue records that describe their world renowned collections of Islamic manuscripts Available from a common search engine at http://www.fihrist.org.uk/, users can now search over detailed descriptions of over 10,000 texts. The term Fihrist comes from the book written […]
Registration is now open for Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content, 20 May 2011, Oxford. The question of how we can measure and understand the usage and impact of digital content within the education sector is becoming increasingly important. Substantial investment goes into the creation of digital […]
HEFCE recently confirmed its capital funding for 2011-12, including the capital budget for JISC. This means that JISC are planning the next round of calls within it various teams. Within the eContent Programme, there will be further funds for digitisation and content. Current thinking is tending toward the bullet points below Call for large digitisation […]
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Saucy seaside postcards online
The recently JISC-funded Cartoon Archive Digitisation project (CARD) has caught the attention of the press recently. One of the collections that the University of Kent’s British Cartoons Archive will be digitising includes the Director of Public Prosecutions’ archive, which records the prosecution for obscenity of 1,300 cartoon seaside postcards between 1951 and 1961. The other […]
The final conference of the IMPACT project will take place on 24-25 October 2011 at the British Library in London, with the title: “Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper. Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges” The IMPACT Project (Improving Access to Text) started on 1st January 2008 with the aim to […]
A 350-year-old notebook describing the execution of innocent women for ‘consorting with the Devil’ has been published online by The University of Manchester’s John Rylands library as part of the JISC funded Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) project. The notebook was written by Puritan writer Nehemiah Wallington who describes how a supposed […]
An additional project joins the list of the winning proposals under the JISC Rapid Digitisation call 16/10. Early Music Online, Royal Holloway, Stephen Rose, £75,521 This is a pilot project that will digitise 300 volumes of the world’s earliest printed music from holdings at the British Library, and make them publicly accessible via the internationally-recognised […]
Having recently announced the winning projects for the latest eContent (Strand A and Strand B) and Rapid Digitisation calls, as Programme Managers we’ve also had to provide feedback to the unsuccessful bids we received, many of which were nonetheless of a high quality. While going through the process, some common “feedback” patterns emerged, which might […]
Preparing collections for digitisation by Anna E Bülow and Jess Ahmon, is a new publication by Facet publishing on the practicalities of digitising archival collections. The guide covers the whole process, from selecting records for digitization to choosing suppliers and equipment and dealing with documents that present individual problems. As such, it can be used […]
57 proposals were received by JISC as part of Strand B of 11/10 (Developing Community Content) and 9 recevied funding. Total funding was £713,733. Patients Partcipate!, University of Bath, Liz Lyon, £75,074 Patients Participate! will investigate the potential of crowdsourced “lay summaries”, derived from medical articles in the PubMed Central repository, as a means of […]