The D-Word: tips and tricks for digitising library and archive collections

The D-Word: tips and tricks for digitising library and archive collections

MLAG Conference 2015 #mlag15

Friday 24th April 2015

Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

This one-day conference is organised by MLAG (Museum Librarians and

Archivists Group) http://www.mlagblog.org/, a network of archivists

and librarians working in museums and galleries throughout the UK.

Providing online access to library and archive collections has never

been more important for promoting and increasing awareness to our hidden

treasures.  At this conference we want to explore:

* how museums and art galleries can start the digitisation process and

demystify the often complex world of digitisation, no matter what your

budget

* case studies from museums and art galleries who have begun digitising

their collections, and highlight particular areas of interest or

successes in these projects

The conference will include presentations, poster sessions and a panel

discussion as well as tours of the Internet Archive digitisation suite

(numbers for the tours are strictly limited and must be booked in advance).

Tickets are priced at £15 and all are welcome, please see the link below

for the full programme and ticketing information:

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events/d-word-tips-and-tricks-digitising-library-and-archive-collections

http://mlagblog.org/

@MLAGuk

New toolkits for research data management in the visual arts

The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the University for the Creative Arts has launched toolkits resulting from the VADS4R project. This project delivered a series of workshops on research data management in the visual arts at the University for the Creative Arts, Glasgow School of Art and Falmouth University, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Over 186 postgraduates and researchers participated in the project from universities across the UK, exploring the nature of ‘research data’ in the visual arts and sharing their practice and tips for its effective management.

The CDS have launched the first in a series of online toolkits and videos introducing research data management in the visual arts. The tools are:

"How to avoid a data disaster":

https://xerte.ucreative.ac.uk/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=250

"Writing the AHRC Technical Plan":

https://xerte.ucreative.ac.uk/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=228

Amy Robinson of the CDS says: "We hope this will prove useful beyond the end of the project, and we would be really grateful to get your feedback and any suggestions whatsoever at the end of each toolkit (or by email)."

The CDS have also shared all the presentations and materials from the workshops on the project website at: http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk

UCA Research Online: http://research.ucreative.ac.uk

Te Papa releases over 30,000 high resolution images for free

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has announced they have released over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in high resolution. 

You can search for and download them at Te Papa's Collections Online: http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/

17,000 images have no known copyright restrictions so are downloadable for any use, free of charge. Another 14,000 images are available under a Creative Commons licence:

CC BY-NC-ND http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

"We hope that by making these images available for re-use, we are empowering people to use images of the collection in teaching and learning, research, innovation and new forms of creativity."

 

Read more at Te Papa's blog:

http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/05/30/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections 

Programmes from the Royal Albert Hall go online

A selection of programme covers from the Royal Albert Hall Archive in London have been made available online via VADS for free use in learning, teaching and research at: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/RAH

The Royal Albert Hall has been host to some of the most famous names in history - from The Beatles to the Rolling Stones, and from Einstein to the Suffragettes. The Archive is the guardian of the Hall’s collective memory and is responsible for managing collections, which include posters, handbills, posters, photographs, plans, prints, art works, administrative records, and ephemeral items such as tickets, leaflets and merchandising. Last year, the Royal Albert Hall had its most successful year yet with 390 performances and 1.7 million visitors – the Hall’s incredible time-lapse film reveals its busiest and most successful year ever (see it on YouTube at: http://tinyurl.com/p56hklm).

The Royal Albert Hall Programme Collection consists of over 40,000 Programmes, from the very first Programme of the Opening ceremony in front of Queen Victoria in March 1871 to last night’s event! It covers a huge range of events, including not only the most obvious classical music concerts but sporting events, political rallies, trade shows, dance events and balls.

The Royal Albert Hall is currently cataloguing its archive collections to make them publicly available for the first time later this year, and further images will be added to the VADS image collection in due course.

VADS has been hosted online for over 15 years by the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), a specialist art and design university in the south of England. VADS provides online access to a growing collection of over 120,000 art and design images contributed by universities, libraries, museums and archives from across the UK, which can be used freely for educational purposes. To explore all the VADS collections, visit: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections

Win an i-Pad mini!

Would you like to be in with a chance to win an i-Pad mini? Do you use Jisc MediaHub? If so, a new survey has just gone live to gather views on Jisc MediaHub:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FKMQKVL

As part of Project Enriched Playlists, a new Jisc-funded project, Jisc is looking into how audio-visual collections in Jisc MediaHub might be developed for Higher Education (HE) into ‘enriched playlists’:
http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/project-enriched-playlists

This project will help Jisc understand and document how HE would like to use and get the most out of Jisc MediaHub’s moving image, audio and stills collections.

EDINA would be grateful for your help: please do complete the survey by 13th June 2014.

All participants who submit a completed survey will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad mini 16GB (Wi-Fi).

To find out more about the project or this survey, please contact Hetty Malcolm-Smith, Jisc Project Manager (Content), Project Enriched Playlists (020 7393 1520 /  hetty@bufvc.ac.uk).