** Apologies for cross posting **

22nd February 2008
Digital Copyright: opportunities and practicalities
Presented in association with Naomi Korn, copyright consultant.

Copyright is a current and important topic for 
many organisations, particularly those that are 
considering digitising and delivering digital 
content in order to make sure that their rights 
are not infringed upon and their assets are fully 
exploited. This all-day course will focus upon 
participant's experiences and case studies. It 
will encourage group work and discussion around 
key areas, whilst focusing on current topics and 
real world digital issues. This course will 
appeal to everyone currently digitising content 
or thinking of embarking on a digital project who 
wishes to learn more about rights issues. 
Participants are invited to bring case studies 
and outlines of current projects to the session.

By the end of the day, participants will:

     * Encounter the key issues relating to digital copyright
     * Know the importance of managing and protecting their rights
     * Share experiences and good practice tips with other participants
     * Gain knowledge about how best practice can 
be embedded within their daily work

Naomi Korn is an experienced trainer and 
consultant, specialising in copyright, IPR, 
licencing and digital rights management. She has 
worked for many years with museums, galleries, 
archives, libraries and the higher/further education
sector. She was the former copyright officer at 
the Tate and has contributed to many 
international projects. She is currently MDA's IP 
Officer and chair of MDA's IP Advisory Committee for Collections.

Sessions include:

* Copyright in a global environment: overview of 
the legal landscape and key issues
* Digitisation and copyright: what can you digitise and when should you?
* Digital Rights Exploitation: generating income from copyright
* Delivering content on the web: practical tips for protecting your rights
* Institutional Intellectual Property Audit
* Digital Rights management: solutions and shortcuts
* Case studies

http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/content/training.htm

What course attendees have said about our training:
* "Excellent coverage of information with apt description and explanation."
* "The balance between group discussion and 
presentation was particularly good."
* "This is excellent ­ one of the best I've attended."
* "It was very comprehensive ­ as I thought of 
questions, they were answered almost right away. 
I have a lot of new knowledge that I'll be able to apply."
* "Provided just the information required ­ 
informative, comprehensive and thought provoking."

Courses are £140 (no VAT) per person and are 
based in London at King's College London.

2008 Course Schedule includes the following:

11th February	Managing digital projects for culture and heritage
22nd February	Digital copyright: Opportunities and practicalities
6th March  	Colour management
20th May	Digital preservation
12th June  	Digitising and delivering textual resources
Register interest for the following (dates to be confirmed):
                       Fundraising
                       Sustaining digital projects: Funding the future
                       Audiovisual preservation 
for culture, heritage and academic collections

11th February 2008
Managing digital projects for culture and heritage

Focused upon delivering digital resources and 
digitisation (the conversion to digital formats) 
this one day course will inform managers and 
project staff about how to approach digital projects.

Starting with effective project management 
through fundraising and budgeting/costing issues 
the course will offer real life examples and 
tools to enable effective management. The 
afternoon will focus upon writing requirement 
specifications, tendering and selecting service 
providers. The course will encourage discussion, 
questions and debate plus provide a structured 
environment to learn about the management tools of the digital project trade.

Sessions:
* Planning and project management
Introducing the fundamentals of project 
management to enable effective planning and risk management
* Fundraising and budgeting
Transforming plans into costed proposals for 
raising funds. How to work with funding bodies to get what you both want.
* Writing requirement specifications and requests for proposals (RFP)
How to write a functional description of what is 
needed (whether service, system or software 
oriented) to enable external service providers to achieve the desired outcomes.
* Tendering and selecting services
How to tender for and select services. Whether to 
work in-house or outsource and how to use a decision matrix.

6th March 2008
Colour ­ fidelity for digital imaging
given in association with the National Gallery

This course will be suitable for anyone wishing 
to learn more about colour management and  how to 
apply it within a digital image environment or 
digitisation project. It will emphasize the 
management element of "colour management" and so 
will be of interest to project staff, managers 
and technical staff alike. The National Gallery 
will give a demonstration and talk about their method of colour management.

Content
* Introduction to colour in digital imaging (colour spaces and colour gamut)
* Introducing colour calibration and management
* National Gallery demonstration of colour management
* Managing colour in your project or organisation
* Integrating colour management into your working environment


Dates to be confirmed: register your interest now!
Fundraising

Heritage and memory organizations are 
increasingly engaging in many different kinds of 
digital projects large and small. These projects 
often need to be funded from outside sources, at 
least in the early stages, as it is difficult to 
create new funding streams for new initiatives. 
This workshop will address some of the key issues 
in planning and costing digital projects, 
identifying funders, writing grant proposals, and 
will discuss some of the major sources of funding 
available to not-for-profit organisations.

Topics covered in this training day include:

     * Finding funders
     * Matching bids to funders needs
     * Proposal development
     * Writing and pitching proposals
     * Financial issues
           o Managing the project/programme finances
           o Cost and benefit analysis for planning expenditure
           o Tendering and procurement
           o Sustaining the funding stream

Dates to be confirmed: register your interest now!
Sustaining digital projects: funding the future

The long-term sustainability of digital resources 
is a problem in a world where projects are 
conceived of as short-term activities and where 
funders have limited resources to commit beyond 
initial development phases. Regular updating and 
upgrading is inevitable, and hardware and 
software must be replaced regularly if a resource 
is to grow and thrive. This course will identify 
the key issues in developing a sustainability 
plan including what to sustain (resource, people 
and/or activity), various revenue models and 
finding your market niche for future funding.

Topics covered in this training day include:

     * What are you sustaining?
     * Cost and benefit analysis for planning the future
     * Stakeholder studies - knowing your audience
     * Revenue models and channels to market
           o Advertising model
           o Infomediary model
           o Merchant model
           o Affiliate model
           o Community model
           o Subscription model
           o Utility model

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Simon Tanner
Director,  King's Digital Consultancy Services
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane, 2nd Floor, London WC2B 5RL
tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716
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www.digitalconsultancy.net

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