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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