Author Archives: Joanne Anthony

Farewell ‘TASI’, Hello ‘JISC Digital Media’

On the 5 March I attended the London launch of the rebranding of ‘TASI’ to ‘JISC Digital Media’. Tables were decked with everything from canapés & wine, to a variety of AV and photographic media on display (on separate tables of course!). Although the former ‘TASI’ was always a JISC-funded venture, it’s now more prominently [...]

LCACE: Our Digital Future – new technologies for MLAs

While colleagues were busy at ULCC’s Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference and the Newsfilm Online launch, I attended the excellent LCACE workshop, Our Digital Future: new technologies for Museums, Libraries and Archives at King’s College on October 3rd. LCACE is a university collaboration promoting the exchange of knowledge and expertise with the capital’s [...]

Web 2.0 and Archives: Something like a Phenomenon?

I just spotted a posting from a fellow Antipodean, made to the Australian Archivists (aus-archivists) listserv, which has certainly raised some interesting questions surrounding web 2.0 technologies and their impact on the Archive sector…. Perhaps a debate well worth monitoring, and further exploring here, within the realm of web 2.0 itself? See Australian Archivists listserv [...]

Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 2)

Here are a few more details of our work with the William Morris lantern slide collection that we thought might be of interest. The Maypole Dairy Cheese box: The box pictured here (in which the lantern slides were originally stored since the late 19th century) is an historical artefact in itself that will be preserved [...]

Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 1)

William Morris Lantern Slide © 2008 The William Morris Society, All rights reserved. Over the coming week we’ll be working with the William Morris Society to digitise their unique collection of lantern slides. Digitising the slides will finally help to open up their access to a wider audience, who may then be able to help [...]