Today is the last day for comment on these fascinating projects. But the
email was received too late to be useful, and I do not recall a previous
invitation to comment. I have not found one in the list archive, which may
be my ignorance. Can anyone shed any light?
Isobel Watson
a mere user
>From: David Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: David Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Last day to comment on choosing JISC digitisation projects
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:24:37 +0100
>
>All
>
>apologies for the cross-posting …
>
>JISC is consulting until 1st September on a shortlist of 24 projects that
>could receive a share of £4m in funding to digitise resources of national
>importance, Projects to support teaching, learning and research include a
>fossil record database that will ‘document the history of life’; the
>country’s largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite drawings; the full text of
>all twentieth century Cabinet papers; the Desmond Tutu archive; the
>historic boundaries of Britain; Islamic manuscripts; all photographic
>negatives held by the Scott Polar Research Institute; rare pamphlets and
>newspapers from the Anglo-Jewish community, and primary material, including
>sound, images and video, of the major First World War poets…
>
>To view the shortlisted projects, please go to:
>http://jiscdigitisation.typepad.com/, to make your views know, please go
>to: http://survey.bris.ac.uk/jisc/digiconsultphase2
>
>On these sites you can read short summaries of the proposals, and then
>complete a survey to indicate those that would be useful in your teaching,
>learning and research.
>
>There is a prize draw for those who complete the survey, with book tokens
>to be won!!!!
>
>D
>
>David Dawson
>
>Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
>Victoria House, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4EA
>
>
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