I would like to support David's urgings on this (his message is repeated
below in case you missed it- one of those occasions when it is worth not
editing when replying). There is a very great opportunity to be had here and
an associated danger that if there is no interest then it will not be
repeated. mda is available to advise museums interested in making
applications, although the office is now closed until the first week in
January.
Best wishes, for the holidays.
Dr Matthew Stiff
Head of Standards
mda, 19 Riverside Road, Oxford, OX2 0HT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of David Dawson
> Sent: 17 December 1999 15:14
> To: 'GEM'; 'MCG mailbase'
> Subject: JISC Funding for museums
>
>
> JISC held a 'Town Meeting' to discuss the latest funding initiative in
> London yesterday - as I mailed to the list on 11 November.
>
> There appeared to be no-one there from museums (though I may
> be wrong!).
> In the discussion it became clear that the funding could be for any
> museum to work with a University Teaching Department to create on-line
> learning resources. Preference would be given to University
> Museums, but
> other museums can bid as well, providing that they can
> demonstrate value
> for money. The whole Call is for £9million of funding, and
> museums could
> gain several hundred thousand pounds . . . There is active interest in
> seeing museums involved.
>
> Applications due by 24 January
>
> Full details are at:-
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub99/c05_99.html
>
> The most relevant paragraphs are
>
> Museums, Galleries and Archives
>
> 65.There is a great deal of interest in the role of
> museums, galleries
> and archives in the lifelong learning society. Many museums and
> galleries have well-established education departments, and the museums
> community has mobilised itself to participate in electronic curriculum
> development for the National Grid for Learning. There have been fewer
> links so far between museums and HE.
> 66.Proposals are invited for collaborations between university-based
> museums, galleries or archives and lecturers in academic departments.
> Many university-based organisations of these types have
> collections that
> are directly relevant to the pedagogic activities in their
> institutions,
> but few have been able to access enough IT to make their collections
> accessible to learners and teachers.
> 67.Examples of possible projects include digitisation of
> images/metadata from university-based museum, gallery or archive
> collections. It is a pre-requisite that the bid is made in conjunction
> with academic partners who are committed to using the resulting
> resources in UK HE classrooms and also with a partner who
> will evaluate
> how this is done and how successful it is. It is also
> essential that the
> appropriate intellectual property issues are adequately
> addressed. This
> might require some re-negotiation of licence terms.
>
>
> David Dawson
> Museums New Technology Adviser
> MGC, 16 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA
> email: [log in to unmask] tel: +44 (0)171 233 4200
> Visit us on-line at www.museums.gov.uk
>
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