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)

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