A major European conference on digitisation came to an end today with a call for greater cooperation between countries and increased investment in digitisation at the highest political levels. The three-day LIBER-EBLIDA conference in Copenhagen brought together representatives from national and university libraries across Europe to discuss how digitisation can support moves towards making available […]
The £22m JISC digitisation programme is making available a wide range of vital scholarly resources to UK education and research. Programme manager Alastair Dunning talks to Philip Pothen about what the programme is delivering and why the recent international conference in Cardiff represented an important landmark both for the programme and for wider attempts to […]
A new report that evaluates the achievements of the first phase of the JISC digitisation is now available to download from the JISC website. The report, which was led by Evidence Base at the University of Central England in collaboration with Simon Tanner from Kings Digital Consultancy Services at Kings College, illustrates the value of […]
Google has quickly become a key player in the digitisation of scholarly resources. In this podcast two librarians – Richard Ovenden of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and Mike Keller at Stanford University – who are both working with Google to digitise large parts of their collections, talk to Philip Pothen about the opportunities […]
Chris Batt is the Chief Executive of the Museum Libraries and Archives Council, a key partner of JISC’s in the Strategic Content Alliance, a cross-sectoral body looking to widen access to online content for all citizens of the UK. In this podcast he talks about the work of the MLA, the Strategic Content Alliance and […]
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In the news: first world war archive
Another National Archives/geneology.co.uk digitisation project makes the news today. The Guardian reports that the pension records of almost a million soldiers who served in the first world war have for the first time been made available on the internet, allowing descendants to access a wealth of information about anyone who was injured or discharged due […]
Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, was due to give the keynote speech on e-content and its impact on learning, teaching and research on the second day of the conference. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make it. However, he has passed on the narrative of the talk he would have […]
The Telegraph and the Mail both report today on the National Archives/ancestry.co.uk project to make available online convict transportation records which will allow Britons to trace their links to the thieves, robbers and poachers who were deported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries. The online register, created from the original records held at […]
Peter B Kaufman is president and executive producer of Intelligent Television in New York. At the conference he gave two fascinating presentations: Business models and sustainability; and the opportunities offered by online video. If you missed them – or want to refresh your memory – we’ve got the pdfs of the narratives of his talks, […]
The JISC digitisation conference was opened by Carwyn Jones, now Counsel General and Leader of the House in the Welsh Assembly Government (you can read the live blog of his well-received speech here). He also gave a short interview to JISC’s Philip Pothen before the speech, and it is now available to listen to as […]
Powerpoint presentations from both days of the conference can be found on the main conference archive page. If you are a speaker and your presentation is not listed, please send it over to us and we’ll include it.
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Simon Tanner sums up the last three days in just five words: collaboration, visibility, invisibility, mass and tomorrow. Collaboration: the hardest thing we do – sitting down and committing institutions to work together and achieve common goal – not easy – underlying thread is that it matters and is taken seriously by everybody here and […]
With Sarah Porter, David Dawson, Emma Beer, Brian Kelly, David Dawson and Julian Ball
Digital capture and conversion of text – overcoming the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) challenges Paul Ell (moderator), Director, Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, Queen’s University Belfast Aly Conteh, Head of Digitisation, British Library Julian Ball, Project Manager, University of Southampton Martin Locock, National Library of Wales Aly Conteh The British Library perspective – have […]
Moderators from all six parallel sessions, on areas as diverse as digital video and commercial e-content developments, gathered to report back on the presentations and discussions in their groups.
Mass digitisation: best practice and lessons learnt David Dawson (moderator) Senior Policy Adviser (Digital Futures), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Stuart Dempster, Director, Strategic Content Alliance, JISC Joyce Ray Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Washington DC Ricky Erway Programme Officer, OCLC Programs and Research
The JISC Digitisation Programme: an introduction to the digitisation strategy and new collections coming on stream from 2009 Paola Marchionni, Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC Alastair Dunning, Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC “If Google is The Beast, then the JISC digitisation programme will be The Beauty”
Cyber-infrastructure and information policy: the changing face of US digitisation developments Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Services
David Baker, Principal, College of St Mark and St John, with Sarah Porter and Stuart Dempster More, live, notes from the meeting can be found on the Strategic Content Alliance Blog Themes: Towards alignment of international content inititives Business models/partnerships/roles Governance (licencing, IP) Tools and infrastructure Communities of practice Advocacy and tools for this, vocabulary […]