Here is a description of the MIDESS project for the Warwick meeting:
The MIDESS Project MIDESS explores the management of digitised content
in an institutional and cross-institutional context through the
development of a digital repository infrastructure. The project
addresses how support can be provided for the use of digital content in
a learning and research context, in an integrated manner. The partners
in the project are the University of Leeds, University of Birmingham,
London School of Economics (LSE) and University College of London (UCL).
MIDESS will build functional demonstrator digital content repositories
at three of the partner institutions, providing a set of suitable
platforms to examine the issues and validity of implementing full
digital content management services.
A number of University Libraries in the UK have embarked on digitisation
programmes, and a large amount of content has been generated as a result
of these initiatives. However, few institutions have, as yet, seriously
explored the management of digitised content through a digital content
infrastructure. Digitised content typically tends to be available
through unstructured or semi-structured html pages, or managed through
proprietary systems which do not provide for adequate exposure, sharing
or re-use of materials.
The main areas of interest for the MIDESS project are:
What are the best ways to share digital collections?
What is the most appropriate metadata for sound, image and video
collections?
How can digital repositories of multimedia material best be used in a
learning and teaching context?
What are the Digital preservation requirements for digital image
collections?
How can Digital Repositories best be used in medicine?
Thanks
Steve Charles
Dr Stephen Charles
MIDESS Project Manager
Edward Boyle Library
Leeds University
LS2 9JT
Phone 0113 3437783
Mobile 07981 330786
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