Tag Archives: digitisation

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 [...]

What is the Library of the Future?

Last Thursday’s Libraries Of The Future (LOTF) event at Oxford University has been well covered elsewhere, so I’ll just note a few key themes as I inferred them. LOTF is a JISC-sponsored campaign begun last year, and continued by means of online social networking (chez Ning) and a JISCInvolve blog, as well as F2F events [...]

BT Archives: Digitisation of Historic Posters

We’ve just completed digitisation of a small series of interesting General Post Office posters for the BT Archives; all of which hover around the WW2 period (1930s to 1950s). These were the six remaining items that still required digitisation and generation of suitable access copies, in a larger batch of posters that will be made [...]

ULCC/Portico/DPC consortium to undertake JISC preservation study

We’ve just heard that a consortium of ULCC, Portico and the Digital Preservation Coalition has been awarded the contract by JISC to undertake a Preservation Study of recent digitisation activities. The JISC Digitisation Programme has made a wide variety of valuable resources digitally accessible, including: British Newspapers (1620-1900) Newsfilm Online First World War Poetry Newspaper [...]

All the news that’s fit to download

Friday October 3rd saw the launch of Newsfilm Online, the output of one of JISC’s largest and most ambitious digitisation projects. About 100 people were present in the intimate surroundings of the Soho Hotel’s screening room to see and hear Malcolm Read (JISC’s chief executive), Mark Wood (ITN Chief Executive) and Jon Snow (on video [...]