The deadline for NITLE’s Innovation Studio has been extended to Tuesday, January 24 at 5 p.m. CST.
Inspired by start-up accelerators and project-based learning, the Innovation Studio offers a structure for librarians, information technologists, acad…
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JISC is delighted to announce that King’s College London has been awarded funding for a project on “WW1 Discovery: Content Prioritisation”
This work will undertake essential primary research that will guide and underpin the wider JISC WW1 Discovery programme which aims to aggregate and deliver WW1 content by building an aggregation, API and discovery [...]
The excerpt below is from the Intellectual Property Office website. The planned Exchange will be of great interest to those digitising orphan or in copyright works, hopefully leading to a acceleration of the process of rights clearance.
On 22 November Business Secretary Vince Cable announced the appointment of Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on [...]
We have a great line up for the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series this term. The events are held in the Anatomy Theatre, KCL, Strand. All welcome. Tuesday 17 January, 6.15pm: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing, Ralph Schroeder and Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute Tuesday 31 January, 6.15pm: Manuscript Digitisation: How applying publishing and content packaging [...]
My blogging has been somewhat quiet for the last couple of months (well, non existent really). Normal service has now been resumed. This is partly due to many of my waking hours being taken up with the Digital Exposure of English Place-names project, a JISC mass digitization content effort to digitise the entire corpus of [...]
Stanley Fish recently published a blog post in the NY Times with the grandiose title, The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality. The article is engaging; it seems to sharpen the knife for the Digital Humanities but then decides not to stick it in (although that might be to follow)
What strikes me about the [...]
For autocratic regimes, naming landmarks is both a perk and a tool — a cheap stab at immortality and a means to cement authority: In Syria, examples abound: The main highway through Damascus is named after the late despot Hafez … Continue reading →
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in 1967. I was nineteen years old, a junior in college. Like many of that time, place and age, I listened to the album hundreds of times, in various states of consciousness, some of them more conscious than others. If asked to produce the entire album from [...]
After over four very happy years, I’m moving on from JISC to a new role in the Netherlands.
It’s been a privilege to work with colleagues in one of the most innovative educational funding bodies in the world, and also with a broader community of researchers, librarians, teachers, archivists, policy wonks and web geeks. While [...]
The OER projects in the JISC Content programme 2011-13 recently attended a workshop on “Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)”, organised by the Open Unviersity’s SCORE team.
All projects focus on the digitization of primary material from special collections covering a variety of subjects, from fashion design to architectural drawings and microscopic rock slides. [...]
One of the largest and strangest archives in the UK is the collection of the British Geological Survey. Its mammoth collection store, just outside Nottingham, holds thousands of fossils but also pallets and pallets of rocks samples, often taken as samples prior to oil drilling.
JISC has recently funded the Survey to lead a nationwide project [...]
A couple of JISC funded content projects have recently gone live, and they are worth having a look through as they provide excellent examples of good interfaces for digital content
One is the papers of Isaac Newton, a joint project between Cambridge and Sussex, whilst the other is Locating London’s Past, which involves Sheffield, Hertfordshire, the [...]
THATCamp ranks as my favorite conference experience, mostly because it blows apart the passivity and formality of a traditional conference to get to the essence, bringing people together to share ideas. After attending Startup Weekend Houston a few weeks ago, … Continue reading →
On November 12, a powerful explosion ripped through an Iranian missile base on the outskirts of the town of Bīdgeneh, 40 km west of Tehran. As the Guardian reported soon after, among the dead at the base was the architect … Continue reading →
As part of its initial work in digitising its huge collection of historic newspapers, the British Library received two tranches of funding from JISC to digitise 3m pages from its Colindale repository.
As part of a three-way project involving the BL, JISC and the publishers Gale-Cengage, these newspapers have been made available in two different ways. [...]
