Digitisation workshops and seminars
The following UK-based workshops and events investigated and explored the challenges and achievements in digitisation and e-content.
Below is a full list of workshops and links through to the outputs (reports, slides, video and websites) that were a result of these sessions.
| Workshop |
Institution |
Date |
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text
Workshop Website
Contact: Michael Day |
UKOLN, University of Bath |
24 Sept 09
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Digital imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts
Workshop Website
Contact: Leigh Garrett |
University for the creative Arts |
22 Sep 09 |
Digitising Correspondence (Digitising Early Modern Letters)
Workshop Website
Contact: Dr Jan Broadway |
Queen Mary, University of London |
17 Sep 09 |
- Creating digital performance documentation
- Managing digital performance documentation
- Delivering digital performance documentation
Workshop Programme
Contact: Stephen Gray |
JISC Digital Media and University of Bristol Department of Drama |
23-25 Sep 09 |
Climate Data Digitisation and Visualisation
Workshop Programme (word.doc)
Workshop Report and website
Contact: Dr Rob Allen |
Met Office Hadley Centre |
15-17 Sep 09 |
Collaborative scholarly editing over the Web
Workshop Programme
Contact: Dr Peter Robinson |
University of Birmingham |
24-25 Sept 09
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Geographical Information Systems in history and heritage Workshop outputs available from the Website
Contact: Dr Sarah Rees Jones |
University of York |
17-18th Sep 09
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Archival digitisation of large artworks: A special international JISC symposium Workshop Programme (pdf)
Contact: Prof Haim Bresheeth |
University of East London |
1 Sep 09 |
Mathematical content – tools and standards, practice and strategy
Workshop Website
Workshop Report and Session Video and slides
Contact: Dr Jonathon Fine |
The Open University |
9 Sep 09 |
- Successfully building and managing a digital media collection
- The digital media collection +100 years
Workshop Programme
Workshop outputs available from the Website
Contact: Dave Kilbey |
JISC Digital Media |
15-16 Sep 09 |
Building Usage of Cartoon Archives
Workshop Report and Website
Contact: Dr Nicholas Hiley |
University of Kent |
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Digital History Workshop: Connecting researchers to digital collections
Workshop Programme
Workshop Report
Contact: Dr Kathryn Eccles |
Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University |
3rd Sep 09
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High Volume Digitisation: Issues, Trends & Innovative Robot Tech Workshop Report and Website
Contact: Beverley Dodd |
Birmingham City University |
23 Sep 09 |