JISC Access & Identity Management Programme Call

The new JISC Access and Identity Management Programme call has been released: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/08/0809aim.aspx.

The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon GMT on Monday 19th October 2009.

The JISC is holding a community briefing event where potential bidders will be given information about the background to the call, its objectives and the bidding process. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions of JISC Executive staff. This meeting will take place Thursday 17th September 2009 at the ICC in Birmingham. Registration for this event closes 13:00 Friday 11th September 2009. More information is available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/09/aimcallbriefing.aspx.

Further details about the call can be found at the AIM blog at http://aimprog.jiscinvolve.org/. Queries about the call can also be posted on Twitter using the tag #AIMCall09.

If you have any queries or require further information please do not hesitate to contact the AIM Programme Manager Christopher Brown at c.brown@jisc.ac.uk or on 020 3006 6072 and 07891 501177.

September 8, 2009 | Filed Under access, jisc funding, jiscevents, identity, events, news | Leave a Comment 

Achievements and Challenges of Digitisation and e-Content

JISC has funded 14 Workshops and Seminars exploring some of the achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content.  Covering a wide range of challenging and cutting-edge developments within digitisation these workshops address questions as diverse as visualising climate change data to digital performance, and issues around robot digitisation technology to Geographical Information Systems in history and heritage.

  1. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text, 24 Sept 09, Contact: Michael Day, UKOLN, University of Bath, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009
  2. Digital imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts, Contact: Leigh Garrett,  University for the creative Arts, 22 Sep 09, http://www.vads.ac.uk/digitalimagery
  3. Digitising Correspondence (Digitising Early Modern Letters), Contact: Dr Jan Broadway, Queen Mary, University of London, 17 Sep 09 http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/events/2009/09/17/digitizing-correspondence-workshop
  4. Creating digital performance documentation
  5. Managing digital performance documentation
  6. Delivering digital performance documentation,  Contact: Stephen Gray                   JISC Digital Media, 23-25 Sep 09, http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/free-to-attend-digitisation-seminars
  7. Climate Data Digitisation and Visualisation, Contact: Dr Rob Allen, Met Office Hadley Centre, 15-17 Sep 09, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx(Word Document on JISC workshops webpage)
  8. Collaborative scholarly editing over the Web, Contact: Dr Peter Robinson                University of Birmingham, 24-25 Sep 09, http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm
  9. Geographical Information Systems in history and heritage, Contact: Sarah Rees Jones, University of York, 17-18 Sep 09, http://www.york.ac.uk/res/isthmus/ISTHMUS_Site/Public_Participatory_GIS.html
  10. Mathematical content–tools and standards, practice and strategy, Contact: Dr Jonathon Fine, The Open University, 9 Sep 09, http://groups.google.com/group/uk-math-content-2009?hl=en&pli=1
  11. Successfully building and managing a digital media collection
  12. The digital media collection +100 years, Contact: Dave Kilbey, JISC Digital Media 15-16 Sep 09, http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/free-to-attend-digitisation-seminars
  13. Building Usage of Cartoon Archives, Contact: Dr Nicholas Hiley, University of Kent (Awaiting Website/Programme details)
  14. Digital History Workshop: Connecting researchers to digital collections, Contact: Dr Kathryn Eccles, Oxford Internet Institute, 3rd Sep 09, http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/2009/07/23/digital-history-digital-resources-for-history-and-historians/
  15. High Volume Digitisation: Issues, Trends & Innovative Robot Tech, Contact: Beverley Dodd, Birmingham City University, 23 Sep 09, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx (pdf Document on JISC workshops webpage)
September 2, 2009 | Filed Under news | Leave a Comment