JISC has funded 14 Workshops and Seminars exploring some of the achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content. Covering a wide range of challenging and cutting-edge developments within digitisation these workshops address questions as diverse as visualising climate change data to digital performance, and issues around robot digitisation technology to Geographical Information Systems in history and heritage.
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text
Contact: Michael Day UKOLN, University of Bath 24 Sept 09
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009
- Digital imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts
Contact: Leigh Garrett University for the creative Arts 22 Sep 09
http://www.vads.ac.uk/digitalimagery
- Digitising Correspondence (Digitising Early Modern Letters)
Contact: Dr Jan Broadway Queen Mary, University of London 17 Sep 09
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/events/2009/09/17/digitizing-correspondence-workshop
- Creating digital performance documentation
- Managing digital performance documentation
- Delivering digital performance documentation
Contact: Stephen Gray JISC Digital Media 23-25 Sep 09
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/free-to-attend-digitisation-seminars
- Climate Data Digitisation and Visualisation
Contact: Dr Rob Allen Met Office Hadley Centre 15-17 Sep 09
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx (Word Document on JISC workshops webpage)
- Collaborative scholarly editing over the Web
Contact: Dr Peter Robinson University of Birmingham 24-25 Sep 09
http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm
- Geographical Information Systems in history and heritage
Contact: Sarah Rees Jones University of York 17-18 Sep 09
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/isthmus/ISTHMUS_Site/Public_Participatory_GIS.html
- Archival digitisation of large artworks: A special international JISC symposium
Contact: Prof Haim Bresheeth University of East London 1 Sep 09
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx (pdf Document on JISC workshops webpage)
- Mathematical content – tools and standards, practice and strategy
Contact: Dr Jonathon Fine The Open University 9 Sep 09
http://groups.google.com/group/uk-math-content-2009?hl=en&pli=1
- Successfully building and managing a digital media collection
- The digital media collection +100 years
Contact: Dave Kilbey JISC Digital Media 15-16 Sep 09
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/free-to-attend-digitisation-seminars
- Building Usage of Cartoon Archives
Contact: Dr Nicholas Hiley University of Kent
(Awaiting Website/Programme details)
- Digital History Workshop: Connecting researchers to digital collections
Contact: Dr Kathryn Eccles Oxford Internet Institute 3rd Sep 09
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/2009/07/23/digital-history-digital-resources-for-history-and-historians/
- High Volume Digitisation: Issues, Trends & Innovative Robot Tech
Contact: Beverley Dodd Birmingham City University 23 Sep 09
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx (pdf Document on JISC workshops webpage)
