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 […]
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JorumOpen
The recent launch of JorumOpen sees free access to a growing collection of open educational resources. JorumOpen will allow lecturers and teachers to share materials under the Creative Commons licence framework. This will allow for easier sharing, grants users greater rights for use and re-use of online content and is easier to understand. Jorum […]
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The Past’s Digital Presence Conference
A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University February 19th and 20th, 2010 Graduate students from around the globe will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities during this interdisciplinary symposium. How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? […]
Building on the work of the Creating Heritage Artefacts for Research and Teaching in an e-Repository (CHARTER) project, the university of Exeter Special Collections are holding a free, one day workshop examining the futures of special colections. Digital Futures of Special Collections Workshop Day 16th March 2010 A workshop day aimed at curators and collection […]
The Pre-Raphaelites online resource has won the BETT Award for best digital collection and resource bank after being recognised as one of the UK’s leading educational websites. Further details of the award can be found on the Birmingham City Council’s website. This latest accolade follows earlier victories in the BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) and […]
At the forthcoming Developer Happiness Days one of the sessions planned to take place will be exploring a DIY digitisation workflow: Taking you from the act of scanning images and objects, learning how to process and edit them with software like ocrupus, blender and OpenCV, storing and manipulating them online and finally, through to printing […]
An additional 100,000 pages of digitised newspaper content have now been added to the 19th-Century British Library Newspapers interface. This is the first part of the second phase of JISC funding to add 1 million pages of new content to this unique resource in early 2010, published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. The initial […]
The Vision of Britain website had now added four new writers to its collection of British travel writers, details of which are below http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers John Byng, later Viscount Torrington — so far, just vol. 4 of the Torrington Diaries, including tours from London to Newark, around Kent and a lot of local trips in Bedfordshire, […]
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 […]
Last week saw the launch of the Resurecting the Past Project from the University of Bristol. The project has built a 3D model of the Pompeii Court from the Crystal Palace exhibition in the virtual world of Second Life. The project aims to: to make accessible to the public knowledge of the Crystal Palace […]
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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.
One of the findings from the measuring impact study was the importance of not relying on quantitative statistics. Seductive as they are, the array of numbers from a Google Analytics report do not tell the whole story. Considered feedback, review and criticism direct from the intended users are just, as if not more, important. However […]
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Digging into Data Winners
Over 85 applications were received for the international Digging into Data Challenge, and the eight winners are listed below Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Southampton, McGill University SALAMI (Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information) will gather c.23,000 hours of digitised music with a breathtaking […]
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 […]
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Making Metadata Fun
Some innovative projects have started introducing games to their digital resources in order to enhance their metadata The Galaxy Zoo astronomy site has just launch a new game which allows users to help suggest how galaxy collision and mergers took place. Google Image Labeller has been around for a few years; you are randomly paired […]
In the most recent edition of Ariadne magazine, JISC Programme Manager Paola Marchionni has reviewed how some of the ways that JISC-funded digitisation projects have engaged their audiences, showing how digitisation projects have developed new ideas and learnt from previous mistakes to ensure that their digital resource is seen and used by a wide range […]
The British Cartoon Archive recently ran a workshop which aimed at allowing this important resource to increase both its functionality and embed the resource further within teaching and research. The final report from the workshop is now available. Further information about the workshop and the Cartoon archive can be found on the Workshop Website
‘The Cultural Heritage of Historic European Cities and Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (GIS)’ was the title of a recent workshop held at the University of York. The workshop explored the potential for GIS to deliver greatly improved access to urban heritage resources of all kinds to the general public and to the academy. The […]
A recent JISC funded Digitisation workshop, held at the Birmingham City University explored the subject of High Volume Digitisation and some of the trends, issues and robot technology that are involved in such undertakings. Leading speakers and demonstrators from across the UK and Europe contributed to a comprehensive programme of events, open sessions and demonstrations. […]
Don’t procrastinate! Submit your nominations now for the Learning Impact Awards and Recognition Program. Nominations for the 2010 Global Competition are due by 31 December 2009. It’s easy to submit your nominations, just fill out the nomination form online. The Learning Impact Awards (aka LIAs) recognize the use of technology to support and enhance learning, […]