Glasgow Digitization Summer School 
                    July 4-9, 1999: Glasgow, Scotland 
           http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm 
 
From: Dr Seamus Ross <[log in to unmask]> 

Following the great success of the 1998 Glasgow Digitisation Summer
School, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute 
(HATII) is pleased to announce the Second International Digitisation 
Summer School 1999.   

Full details of the course and preliminary registration materials can be
found at: 

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm 

Introduction 

The availability of high-quality digital content is central for
improving public access to the heritage and enabling teaching and research.  
This one-week intensive programme will be of value to students, academics,
and professionals working in the cultural and humanities sector (archives, 
museums, libraries). 

It delivers skills, principles, and best practice in the digitisation of
primary textual and images resources with strong emphasis on interactive
seminars and practical exercises.  With expert guidance, you will
examine the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage 
materials and investigate issues involved in creating, curating, and 
managing access to such collections.  The focus will be on working 
with primary source materials not otherwise available in digital form. 

In these, participants will apply the practical skills they acquire to
the digitisation of an analogue collection which they have selected (print, 
image e.g. photographic or slide, music manuscripts, or map). The focus 
will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available
in digital form.  

Participants are encouraged to bring material related to their own 
interests or to those of their home institution. Where this is not 
practical, material from the University of Glasgow's collections will be
made available. 

Aims and Objectives 

After completing the course, participants will: 

-be familiar with major digitisation projects and how they are being
run;  

-acquire the skills to select materials for digitisation and provide
sound justifications for their decisions;
  
-be able to define the standards to be used depending upon the type of 
documentary or image material with which they are working and the 
objectives of a particular digitisation initiative;
  
-gain the skills to manage the digitisation process from end-to-end;
  
-appreciate the role and types of metadata used to assure the long term 
reusability of digital materials;
  
-acquire the skills to create suitable metadata;
  
-be able to determine the costs of digitisation projects;
  
-be able to plan appropriate storage and access facilities; and,
  
-understand the application of the techniques to various heritage
sectors, including archives, libraries, special collections, and museums.  

Time scale (Detailed Timetable)  

The one-week intensive course will consist of 10 lectures; 5 seminars; 5
lab-based practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an 
opportunity for individual practice); and 2 visits to the Glasgow 
University Library and Archive collections. (Daily schedule: 9-9:55 
Lecture, 10-11 Seminar, 11:30-12:45 Lecture, 14:16:15 Practical,
16:30-18:30 Individual Practice) 

Costs, Registration, and Deadlines  

Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, and 
afternoon tea breaks, not including accommodation): 
 
  Advanced booking discounted price before 30 April 1999: £550 sterling.

  Normal price: £600 sterling (applies after 1 May 1999) 
 
  Student price: £400 sterling  


More information can be found at: 

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm 

The Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University
of Glasgow, George Service House, 11 University Gardens, GLASGOW G12 8QQ,
UK. 

Telephone: (+44 141) 330 5512 | Fax: (+44 141) 330 3788 

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Dr Seamus Ross 
Director, Humanities Computing & Information Management 
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute 
Faculty Office, Faculty of Arts 
6 University Avenue 
University of Glasgow 
Glasgow, G12 8QQ 
Scotland 

Telephone: 0141 330 3635 (direct) 
Secretary: 0141 330 5512 (Mrs Ann Law) 
Fax: 0141 330 3788  
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Institute Website: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ 

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