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Apologies for cross posting. Raising Funds for Digital Projects Workshop Wednesday 23rd February 2005, 10:00am – 13:00pm: at the OCLC PICA Office, Fiveways, Birmingham. Presenter: Dr Marilyn Deegan Heritage and memory organisations 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 UK public sector organisations. There will be three sessions: 1. Planning, scoping and costing digital projects. This session will look in detail at all the elements that need to be costed in a digital project, including institutional costs, and will work through some examples to show how to estimate costs realistically. Planning for sustainability and for the ongoing preservation of digital resources will also be discussed here, 2. Identifying funders and writing grant proposals In this session we will discuss how to identify appropriate funders for the project, how to write grant proposals, and will give some pointers to the major funders for UK organisations. 3. Administering a grant project Here we will discuss some of the key ways to achieve the desired outcomes when working with a range of funders: nothing ensures ongoing success like the completion of successful projects. With some funders, track record is very important and so good reporting, evaluation and dissemination of the results of funded projects is vital. This workshop will be entirely presented by Dr Marilyn Deegan who has a great deal of experience in raising funds for digital projects and the successful management of projects large and small. Dr Deegan has a PhD in medieval studies: her specialism is Anglo-Saxon medical texts and herbals and she has published and lectured widely in medieval studies, digital library research, and humanities computing. She is currently Director of Research Development in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College, London and (until February 2004) was Digital Resources Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. She has held a number of posts in digital library research and humanities computing over the past fifteen years. She is Editor-in- Chief of Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and Director of Publications for the Office for Humanities Communication based at King’s College London. Dr Deegan is co-author with Simon Tanner of Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age. The cost to attend the workshop will be £75.00 + VAT. To register please send your details and number of attendees to Gillian McLeod at: [log in to unmask]