Five projects were selected from the 45 proposals submitted to JISC Call 16/10 Rapid Digitisation. Three of the projects, marked below with asterisks, are conditional on clearance of various project issues. From cemetery to clinic **, University of Bradford, Andrew Wilson, £93,199 Leprosy is a debilitating disease with a strong social stigma. Once common throughout […]
Amongst very tough competition (35 bids were received in total, many of which were worthy of funding), JISC has funded 8 projects within its Enriching via Collaboration strand. Total funding came for the strand came to £625,493. Two of the projects, marked below with asterisks, are conditional on clearance of various project issues. AstroDAbis, University […]
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An 1864 playbill, for performances at the City of London Theatre. From the East London Theatre Archive (See here for details of the updated timetable for the JISC eContent Calls)
Due to staff illness, and the large number of bids received we’re a couple of days behind with the original timetable. Emails to all winning and rejected projects may be sent out the week beginning 31st Jan, or they may go out the week beginning 7th Feb —————- For those waiting to receive news of […]
1916 poster, published by the National Organising Committee for War Savings Taken from the collection, Imperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict – The Visual Culture of Public Information and Counter Information, hosted by the Visual Arts Data Service. The image also featured on the facebook page for Europeana
The European Union’s Comite’ des Sages recently published The New Renaissance, a proud call-to-arms for the digitisation of Europe’s cultural heritage. There are plenty of questions it raises and some of the recommendations will be very difficult to put into practice. But as a lofty statement of intent it’s a powerful document and very welcome, […]
Google have a form you can fill in. https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHk5S2l3d1p0dlR4dFVJS0FnRHBobEE6MQ&ndplr=1 It’s as simple as that – definitely more straightforward than a JISC proposal (!)
There was a time, perhaps back in the early misty years of the twenty-first century, when the completion of big digitisation projects would be greeted with whoops and cheers from the nascent digital humanities community. Enthusiastic mailing list emails would trumpet how much easier scholarly access would be and librarians breathed a sigh of relief […]
From Susan Manus, Library of Congress The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) has now released an update and redesign of the website, available at: http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/. In addition to improved navigation throughout, it is now easier to access the major document outlining best practices, the “Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage materials” (http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-technical.html). There are […]
Blogpost taken from the British Library’s Sound Recordings Blog Richard Ranft, Head of Sound and Vision at the British Library, writes: Legendary cricketer Sir Donald “the Don” Bradman (1908-2001), who was once named the “greatest living Australian” by former Prime Minister John Howard, and acclaimed by Wisden as the 20th century’s greatest cricketer, here shows […]
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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 […]
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) recently released a report they commissioned, entitled “Measuring the Value of culture” At first, I was surprised by the complete absence of the digital within the report (there were no mentions of the words ‘Internet’, ‘digital’ or ‘online’) Surely […]
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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 […]
This one-day conference focuses on some of the key strategic issues faced by content creators and publishers today and which were addressed by the JISC eContent programme 2009-2011, in particular: – the need for institutions to develop the necessary skills and strategies to embed digitisation within institutional strategies and practices as well as devise effective […]
AddressingHistory, a new website recently launched, is asking history enthusiasts to explore their ancestors and local historical connections by finding and placing historical Scottish Post Office Directory listings on the map. Based at EDINA, University of Edinburgh, the AddressingHistory website combines the listings from the Directories, historical forerunners of Yellow Pages, with maps from the […]
The JISC-funded Welsh Voices project has provided content for a new gallery of images on the BBC web site commemorating the 92nd anniversary of Armistice Day. Welsh Voices is part of the JISC Developing community content programme which aims to establish partnerships between the Higher Education sector and community groups, organisations and the general public […]
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 […]
The JISC invites tenders for the creation of a gateway for searching catalogues and images of Islamic Studies manuscripts. The aim of the work is to create a tool for educational users to access collections of Islamic Studies manuscripts in the UK. Total funding of up to £30,000 (including VAT, travel and subsistence) is available […]
A Harvard professor, Robert Darnton, has recently made a plea to the American public for the creation of a National Digital Library, which is “a comprehensive library of digitized books that will be easily accessible to the general public.” In the UK, the idea of such a library has been floating around for a while, […]
An early JISC project from 1996 stated that “Digitisation is a key mechanism by which libraries with important research collections can fulfil their responsibilities by providing improved access to users in other UK higher education institutions and internationally” Following on from this pioneering work, JISC has made a committed investment in the digitisation of journals, […]