A recent article in the Guardian notes plans of the British Library, working with the commercial firm BrightSolid, to digitise around 40m pages from their 750m pages of their historic newspaper archive.
The article points out that these newspapers form something of a ‘national memory’ but also implies that this is the first time that the [...]
The following articles were authored by Alastair Dunning
JISC Programme Managers, Alastair Dunning and Paola Marchionni, will be giving presentations related to current and future JISC funding at various events in June.
If you are interested in discussing funding bids please come along – all the events below are open to any interested delegate.
2nd June – London Digital Humanities Group, Central London (Alastair Dunning)
6th [...]
1. After using the British Library Archival Sound Recordings web site, an FE teacher commented: “The realism of it [interviews with photographers included on the site] inspired students and encouraged them to source other material beyond Google searches. It also placed the photographs in context, which you don’t get from Google.”
2. A teacher who incorporated [...]
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 case [...]
(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 for [...]
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.
Over the next few days, we’ll jot down some of the issues related to each of the three strands that will go to making up the overall call.
First off, Strand [...]
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
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)
The [...]
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
the [...]
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 technologists, [...]
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
Summary of the Programme Meeting, [...]
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 by the [...]
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 projects, plus [...]
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 [...]
