Enriching digital resources
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Isaac Newton on YouTube, controversial maps of Sudan, Richard II’s cookbook and historic Navy logbooks helping scientists to address the challenges of climate change are just a few of the treasures that have been unlocked and made freely available online by the Enriching Digital Resources programme.
Time ebbs and flows through the 25 projects that make up the Enriching programme, from the ancient palaces of Pompeii reconstructed in the virtual world of Second Life, to the online digital manuscripts of the First World War poets mixing with the digitised memories of members of the public on Flickr.
The projects look forward into the future with the 2012 Olympics and the communities of East London, the future of child protection and social care and historic pathology slides that are helping medical students with diseases that are now rarely seen in 21st century Britain.
As the past is brought into the present, so users are able to look to the future and be a part of a critical mass of content that is helping change the way that all of us interact with online digital content.
The Enriching Digital Resources programme has been funded by the JISC, and is a part of its pioneering Digitisation programme.