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Almut
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Ms Almut Boehme
Head of Music
National Library of Scotland
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Edinburgh
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Scotland
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Crawford [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 31 July 2006 10:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MUSIC-IR] Consultation on funding for UK music digitisation projects
Dear MIR researchers (and others),
Two funding proposals for medium/large-scale digitisation of UK
collections of audio recordings are open for consultation online, and
responses from the UK academic community are sought in an online
survey (URL below). The potential benefits for MIR research are, I
think, obvious. Although the survey is clearly intended for UK
academics, a strong positive response from the international MIR
community could do no harm, and may even tip the balance in favour of
these excellent projects in what will be a very competitive process.
The online consultation forms are very detailed and require some
concentrated effort from respondents. (The web-site states: "It
should take you on average 30 minutes to read through the proposals
and approximately 15 minutes to complete the form.") But even a few
completed submissions from the international community will help
greatly; if possible, these should be from senior people with some
'visibility' (you know who you are! or, at least, you know who to ask).
Below you will find a slightly edited version of a message sent out
by Prof. Nicholas Cook (ISMIR 2005 keynote speaker) on the UK
musicology-all list.
See you at ISMIR 2006!
Tim Crawford
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "J. P. E. Harper-Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 27 July 2006 18:16:27 BDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MUSICOLOGY-ALL] JISC consultation (revised)
> Reply-To: "J. P. E. Harper-Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> -------------------
> Nicholas Cook, FBA
> Professorial Research Fellow in Music
> Royal Holloway, University of London
> Director, AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of
> Recorded Music
> [log in to unmask]
> -------------------
>
> JISC are carrying out a consultation to see what support there is
> for each
> of 24 proposals shortlisted under phase 2 of their digitisation
> programme.
> Two of these proposals involve music: one (bid no. 9, from KCL)
> would place
> the complete back numbers of _Gramophone_ magazine online, together
> with
> related sound recordings, while the other (bid no. 20, from the BL)
> would
> digitize world music and spoken word materials. The views expressed
> in the
> consultation will presumably have a significant impact on the ultimate
> funding decision, so if you want to see (hear) more musical/
> musicological
> resources on the web, go to http://survey.bris.ac.uk/jisc/
> digiconsultphase2
> and make your views known! The proposals themselves are at
> http://jiscdigitisation.typepad.com/jisc_digitisation_program/.
> Deadline for
> response is noon on 1 September.
>
> Forwarded message from Philip Pothen <[log in to unmask]>
> ******************************
> --------------------------
> Press Release
>
> Digitisation of major scholarly resources: have your say... Community
> consulted on shortlisted projects
>
> 24th July, 2006. A fossil record database that will 'document the
> history of
> life'; the country's largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite drawings;
> the most
> important commercial radio archive in the UK; the full text of all
> twentieth
> century Cabinet papers; the Desmond Tutu archive; the historic
> boundaries of
> Britain...
>
> These are just some of the proposals for digitisation which JISC has
> received since its April call and which the education community is
> being
> consulted on over the next two months. With around £4m of further
> investment
> in the digitisation of unique resources of national importance
> being made by
> JISC in the coming two years, widespread consultation is taking
> place to
> decide which projects will receive funding.
>
> A total of 49 proposals were received, involving 120 partner
> institutions
> from education, research, public libraries, museums and the commercial
> sector, totaling more than £34m of requested funding. A selection
> panel has
> agreed on a shortlist of 24 projects which will form the basis of the
> consultation to be held until the end of September.
>
> Among other proposals received are those for the digitisation of
> Islamic
> manuscripts; all photographic negatives held by the Scott Polar
> Research
> Institute; the Carl Giles newspaper cartoon archive; rare pamphlets
> and
> newspapers from the Anglo-Jewish community, and primary material,
> including
> sound, images and video, of the major First World War poets.
>
> Those selected will join six funded projects in the £10m JISC
> Digitisation
> programme, projects which are currently digitising a wide variety
> of online
> content, including sound, moving pictures, newspapers, census data,
> journals
> and parliamentary papers. The first resources to be made available
> from the
> programmme the Medical Journals Backfile project were launched in
> May
> and the coming year will see other major scholarly resources made
> available
> to the further and higher education communities.
>
> Stuart Dempster, manager of the digitisation programme, said:
> 'We've had a
> tremendous response to our call and a large number of excellent
> proposals.
> Making unique but inaccessible resources more widely available is
> central to
> the programme and we're keen now to ensure that we get the views of
> the
> education and research community to find out which resources they
> want to
> see digitised and made more accessible.'
>
> To view the shortlisted projects and to make your views known,
> please go
> to: http://jiscdigitisation.typepad.com/
>
> To find out more about the JISC Digitisation programme, please go to:
> Digitisation
>
> Dr Philip Pothen,
> JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee),
> King's College London,
> Strand Bridge House,
> 138-142 The Strand (3rd Floor),
> London WC2R 1HH
> 020 7848 2935
> 07887 564 006
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk
>
>
> ______________________________________
>
> Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
> Lecturer in Music
> Department of Music
> Royal Holloway, University of London
> Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
> +44 (0)1784 443949
> http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
> ______________________________________
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