JISC Digitisation Projects in the UK - 2007 to 2009

JISC Digitisation Programme

Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 1

JISC Digitisation Programme22nd January 2008

www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research


JISC Digitisation Programme:

strategy and collections

Alastair Dunning Paola Marchionni

Digitisation Programme Manager Digitisation Programme Manager [email protected] [email protected]



Digitisation Programme

£12m funding – Bids chosen after public consultation and peer review

16 projects, running from early 2007 to early 2009

Wide range in skills and experience and size of projects



Collections

Collections spanning five centuries of social, political, economic and cultural history in the UK

Variety of formats– Newspapers and journals, audio-visual

material, prints, paintings, stained glass, glass plates, election data, maps, cartoons, ephemera, PhD theses

Variety of institutions and partnerships– Educational institutions, libraries, archives,

museums, community organisations, commercial sector

Materials difficult to access, fragile and of educational value

Relevant to curricula and research interests



Collections

User engagement First World War Poetry Digital Archive

– 2000 images of manuscripts and primary sources from 5 Great War poets and contextual material

– Path Creation Scheme, Community section and online educational tutorials

Pre-Raphaelite resource– Images of paintings, drawings and related material

by Pre-Raphaelite painters– Facility for users to add material and self-tag images

British Cartoon Archive– 15,000 images from the Carl Giles Collection, a key

resource for British political and social history– Moderated wiki-style contributions to add to current

catalogue records and group cartoon images



Collections Protection from

deterioration Freeze frame; historic polar images

– 20,000 images relating to study of polar environments, and the history of exploration and science in the Arctic and Antarctic

– Glass plates, photographic negatives, deterioration of cellulose stock

Archival Sound Recordings– 4,200 further hours of audio

material– Betamax, audiocassette, reel to

reel tapes and CD-R, 78rpm records



Collections Contextualised resources British Governance: Cabinet papers 1914-1975

– Half million images of cabinet minutes and memoranda

– Different approaches to resources for HE (broad and thin) and schools (narrow and deep)

Voices: moving images in the public sphere– 600 hours of moving image material on key

social, political and economic issues – Online journal featuring articles relating to the

digitised films and hyperlinked to film segments

Historic Boundaries of Britain– Digitisation of historical maps – Printed and downloadable teachers packs and

on-line tutorials based on different themes and associated sources, eg electoral history



Collections Delivery, access and sustainability Free to all

– Modern Welsh Journal Online and others– 600,000 pages from 90 in-copyright journals in

Welsh and English - institutional strategy

Use of existing infrastructures– Nineteenth-century Pamphlets /JSTOR – 23,000 pamphlets drawn from seven UK research

libraries and delivered via JSTOR

– UK Theses/EThOS– Over 5000 ‘popular’ UK theses from 1730

onwards. Open access to content through EThOS, fees for added value services

Commercial partnerships – Electronic Ephemera/ProQuest– 150,000 images of ephemera delivered through

ProQuest free to HE/FE and public libraries. By subscription outside the UK



Collections

Building a national critical mass E-resources on Ireland

– 100 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections

– Drawn from various libraries in Ireland

British Newspapers 1620-1900– 1.1m drawn from BL Collections– 75% regional newspapers (e.g. Inverness Courier,

Dundee Courier, Hawick Express)

East London Theatre Archive– 15,000 playbills, programmes to press cuttings

and photographs relating – Ephemeral material held in several distinct

archives

Independent Radio News– 4,000 hours of radio news, current affairs and

programmes from 70s to 90s from throughout the UK



Programme Outputs

High-quality content for educational sector

Extra emphasis on learning resources

Developing critical mass in particular areas

Developing cross-search facilities to provide linkage between project content



Programme Outcomes

Sophisticated rights framework

Technical metadata knowledge

Enhanced digitisation infrastructure

Enhanced digitisation knowledge, both broad and detailed

Variety of sustainability and business models

Enhanced technical standards

Greater awareness of digitisation needs, both from users and from collection curators

JISC Digitisation Projects in the UK - 2007 to 2009

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