Peter Findlay
My blog posts
Independent press digitisation – new directions and lessons learned
A couple of year ago Jisc worked with Reveal Digital to provide early access to US independent press publications for UK Higher Education... >>
Call for information: digitisation of 1960s, 70s and 80s UK alternative and independent press material
Help us create digital collections, for the open web, by proposing UK alternative and underground press magazine titles in two broad subject areas:... >>
Developing new approaches to digitising special collections
We recently ran a workshop after a long period of consultation about out future approach to digisation. The resulting workshop report: Summary Report... >>
Role
A member of the digital content and resource discovery team working to improve stakeholder engagement and consultation, and deliver Jisc's digitisation and archival acquisition strategy.
Background
Over the last 16 years worked in project, programme and strategy roles for Acting Up, Carers UK, The British Library and now Jisc.
Media coverage
Women and the need for byte-size history
edquarter, March 2018
Wellcome Library and Jisc announce partners in 19th-century medical books digitisation project
Wellcome Trust, July 2014
Wikipedia contributors ‘should be proud’
Times Higher Education, June 2013
Project aims to bridge gap between academia and Wikipedia
Research Information, June 2013