Newsfilm Online is a new JISC-funded resource providing access to newsfilm
content and related information from the 20th Century. Due to be released
later this year, the new website is being designed and we would welcome your
feedback on the service it provides. If you are available in London to
participate on the 26th or 29th of January 2006, please send information
about the following, along with the time periods you are free. Sessions will
last one hour, starting at 10:00am, 11:30am, 13:00pm and 14:30pm.
	1.	Are you a student, academic or researcher? (in what field or subject
discipline?)
	2.	Does the use of newsfilm already have a place in your work?
	3.	Please give an example of how you have might have used newsfilm had it
been available in the past to support your work?
Max Wilson
Usability Manager
mSpace
ECS Partners
University of Southampton, UK

More Information about Newsfilm Online
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About Newsfilm Online
The content to be delivered by Newsfilm Online has been selected,
catalogued, transferred and digitised by staff of the British Universities
Film & Video Council working in collaboration with ITN Archive – now known
as ITN Source.  The resulting Newsfilm Online service, managed by the JISC,
is to be delivered under authenticated access by the JISC data centre EDINA
with a user interface designed by Mspace of the University of Southampton.

Newsfilm Online is planned to be one of the most exciting resources to be
offered to Higher and Further Education in the UK through JISC’s
digitisation programme. Some 3,000 hours of television news and cinema
newsreel content, drawn from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive,
is to be made available online in downloadable form for use in UK Higher and
Further Education for teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will
be a substantial resource offering access to moving image news content from
the 1910s to the present day.

Newsfilm Online - research, replay, redesign
Newsfilm Online is a resource which will be downloadable under authenticated
access, allowing users to compile and store content to suit their teaching
and learning needs – and to re-deliver it in courseware and via VLEs. The
content has been acquired under an 'in perpetuity' licence which will allow
UK Higher and Further Education to benefit from the use of these assets for
years to come.

Coming in 2007
Newsfilm Online will be released as a resource for the UK Higher and Further
Education community in April 2007. It will be supported by an extensive
database, with clear and comprehensible searching. 450,000 pages of newsfilm
 bulletin scripts are also being digitised and will be available as part of
Newsfilm Online. Newsfilm Online will open up new opportunities for learning
and teaching and offer additional research resources which will benefit many
subject disciplines. 

What is available now?
A simple 'demonstrator' web site (go to http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/)
 designed by the BUFVC is already making some fifty news bulletin extracts
(approximately one hour of material) freely available for download by all
users. These clips are arranged by theme and decade, and we welcome your
comments on any of these. The main delivery of 3,000 hours of content under
authenticated access will be hosted by EDINA (a JISC data centre) via the
mSpace interface in 2007.