** Apologies for cross posting **
There are new training events listed at King's Digital Consultancy Services.
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.
Course include 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
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 education
sector. She was the first copyright officer at
the Tate and has contributed to many
international projects. She is currently the
Secretary of the Museum Copyright Group. See
Naomi's website for more information.
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
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
email: [log in to unmask]
www.digitalconsultancy.net
Digital Futures: 5 day training event for 2008
See: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/
