An opportunity for colleagues in HE to vote on which resources you'd like
the JISC to make available digitally. Without in way at all wishing to
influence your vote, I feel I have to draw your attention to item 5,
History of Art Slide Collection "digital images and related scholarly
materials for the study of art, architecture........."


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Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: JISC Digitisation Project


>
> JISC Digitisation Project
>
> JISC has been allocated non-recurrent funding for the acquisition and
> digitisation of electronic materials to help meet the growing demand for
> online information. The scale of the funding presents an opportunity to
> enhance the core resource of digitised material available to HE and will
> allow the development of a programme of large-scale activity, the results
of
> which will provide a comprehensive resource and add significant value to
> research, learning and teaching (especially support for distance
learning)
> and the e-University. The programme will allow the digitisation of a wide
> range of formats (including text, geospatial data, images, moving images
and
> sound) which will be of great value to the community. Digitisation of
such
> resources will provide on-line access to previously unobtainable
materials,
> supporting a variety of subject interest and distance access to key
> resources.
>
> Both JISC and its Committee for Content Services have considered
guidelines
> for utilising this funding and identified the following criteria: the
> materials should be of broad disciplinary interest and should form a
> coherent theme or themes; a small number of large-scale projects should
be
> funded that would not be possible without an investment of this size; the
> materials would need to be fully compatible with the common information
> environment being developed by JISC, the British Library, Resource and
> others; the materials would need to meet rigorous quality-assurance
> standards and be of value to the wider post-16 education community.
>
> A Working Group was established to consider, among other issues, how the
> materials to be digitised should be selected. The Group agreed to seek
> advice from the learning and teaching and resource communities as
> recommended in the HE Content Policy Group report. The purposes of this
> document is to invite the community to comment on a series of collections
> proposed for digitisation and suggest any additional collections that
would
> fit the criteria for inclusion in this programme outlined above. The time
> period is short and only already known and identified projects can be
> considered.
>
> The Group has identified twelve collections that they feel fit these
> criteria and these are outlined below (in no particular order). Because
the
> scientific and engineering communities are already well provided with
this
> sort of material, the focus of this programme is on the fields of the
> humanities, social sciences and medicine. You are invited to indicate the
> degree of your interest by numbering the collections to which you might
> subscribe in order of preference. i.e. put a figure 1 in the box beside
the
> collection you are most likely to acquire, a 2 in your next choice etc.
If
> you are not interested in a particular collection, leave the box blank.
>
> Please return the attached form to Sarah Sherman, Collections Access
Support
> at the address above or fax it to 020 7848 2939 by 10th January 2003.
> Alternatively, you may respond online by visiting
> www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/digitisationproject.htm.
>
> There is space at the end of the form for you to suggest any other
> collection you would like us to consider or to make any further comments
on
> the collections proposed.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Chris Bailey
> Chair of the JISC Advisory Committee for Content and Services
>
>
>
>
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