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Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) survey

Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 31 March 2009
Tags: digital collections |

Contributions to the image collections are made by universities and museums from across the UK.

You can help VADS gather information about the usage of the image collections by completing a short online survey.

The survey will take a few minutes to complete and will be available online until Friday 3 April.

• Newly updated metadata advice

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 31 March 2009
  Tags: delivery | digital collections | metadata | news |

  We have just revised our Metadata Standards and Interoperability advice paper.

• A hard day’s noise

  Posted by Steve Hull on Monday 30 March 2009
  Tags: audio editing | sound recordings |

  A scientist has used Fourier analysis to try to answer one of the great questions of 20th century popular music: just what was that chord at the beginning of A Hard Day's Night?

• mp3HD has arrived

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 26 March 2009
  Tags: compression | file formats |

  

• Web photos may never look the same again…

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 26 March 2009
  Tags: finding images | photographs |

  A new service that overlays 'product information' hotpoints on web images has launched.

• Cloud computing

  Posted by Steve Hull on Wednesday 25 March 2009
  Tags: e-learning | event | workflow |

  Last week the Futures Café at the University of Bristol held a presentation about cloud computing with particular reference to the use of Google Docs in education.

• Bloom’s taxonomy for the digital age

  Posted by Steve Hull on Tuesday 24 March 2009
  Tags: e-learning | flickr | teaching | youtube |

  Mike Fisher has a fascinating blog called DigiGogy.  On it he recently created and posted a visual representation of Bloom's taxonomy with a slew of Web 2.0 tools positioned on it in appropriate places.

• If you need to print…

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 24 March 2009
  Tags: news | printing |

  We have just revamped the printable versions of our web pages.

• Join us at the JISC Conference

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 23 March 2009
  Tags: event | news |

  We'll be at the annual JISC Conference in Edinburgh tomorrow 24 March 2009 - come and say hello!

• NIACE E-Guides event

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 20 March 2009
  Tags: e-learning | event | news |

  We will be at the NIACE E-Guides National Event 2009: Refresh and Sustain on Thursday 26th March 2009. It will be a day full of workshops aimed at those interested in e-Learning. We have a stand and will be showcasing some of our digital media knowledge and be available to answer any questions on how to use your digital media.

• SlideShare mobile version

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 18 March 2009
  Tags: e-learning | mobile |

  SlideShare, the web service that allows sharing of presentations that we have recently covered in an advice document, has just launched a mobile version. This now further simpifies using the service with a mobile device.

• Unlocking Audio at the British Library

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Friday 13 March 2009
  Tags: digital collections | digitisation | news |

  JISC Digital Media will be at the Unlocking Audio conference at the British Library on Monday and Tuesday next week (16-17 March).

• Designing Sound - a new audio reference text

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Friday 13 March 2009
  Tags: composition | music | open source | software |

  Designing Sound gives us a new reference text on the physical and psychological nature of sound itself, and the modelling of audio environments, instruments and effects for the entertainment industry, music and research. It also includes tutorials and guidance on almost every aspect of the open-source sound design software Puredata, on which its author, Andy Farnell is a recognised authority.