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And the winner is…

Posted by Steve Hull on Monday 27 July 2009
Tags: news | training | video |

The University of Nottingham applied for support in the creation of video materials for their Master's degree in Contaminated Land Management, while Bournville College's application concerned the production of a video introduction to their Learning Resources Centre.  Each institution will receive 4 days' worth of bespoke consultation, including on-site supervision during the production phase of their projects.

A number of excellent proposals were received for Video Assist, but unfortunately only two could be chosen.  However, there is a second round coming up very soon.  The deadline for applications for the next Video Assist is the 20th of November.  The two institutions selected from this round will receive their Video Assist support between January and April of next year, and all FE and HE institutions in the UK are invited to apply.  For further information please see the Video Assist pages on our website.

• JISC Digital Media at DIVERSE ‘09

  Posted by JISC Digital Media on Thursday 23 July 2009
  Tags: composition | equipment | lighting | microphones | news | tripod | video |

  Steve Hull, one of JISC Digital Media's Technical Support Officers for moving images, gave a talk at this year's DIVERSE conference in Aberystwyth on the 25th of June.

• New digital restoration course among autumn training dates

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 22 July 2009
  Tags: analogue collections | audio editing | cameras | colour management | digital collections | digitisation | file formats | finding images | image editing | lighting | metadata | microphones | news | photography | photoshop | resolution | restoration | software | sound recordings | staff training | teaching | training | video | vle |

  The keen-eyed among you will have already noticed we have just released details of our new training programme for September to December.

• Zoom with a view - video with an audio bias

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Wednesday 22 July 2009
  Tags: cameras | equipment | podcasts | sound recordings | video |

  The new Zoom Q3 audio/video recorder offers simple video, combined with high quality stereo audio capture.

• Pocket audio toolbox

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 20 July 2009
  Tags: mobile | news | sound recordings |

  We have a new advice document now online, looking at using your mobile phone as a portable audio recorder:

  Using a Mobile Phone as an Audio Recorder

• Backing up your iPhone/touch

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 15 July 2009
  Tags: e-learning | storage | workflow |

  Backing up is the first thing that I think about once I have any new data on a new device.

• Newly updated Flickr advice

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 14 July 2009
  Tags: finding images | flickr | news | photo sharing | photographs |

  We've just released a completely updated advice document on using Flickr to find images.

• *NEW* advice on recording telephone conversations

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 13 July 2009
  Tags: news | sound recordings |

  We've just published a new advice document about the practice and legalities of recording telephone conversations for oral history and research purposes.

• JISC Digital Content Conference

  Posted by Stephen Gray on Monday 13 July 2009
  Tags: digital collections | event | news |

  June 30th saw the JISC Digital Content Conference hosted at the Cotswold Water Park.

• New DACS licence for museums and heritage organisations in the pipeline

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 09 July 2009
  Tags: copyright | digitisation |

  On Thursday 2nd July I attended a Museums Copyright Group meeting at which John Robinson, Director of Legal and International at DACS, presented a proposal for a new Museums and Heritage Copyright Licence.

• Hanging on the Telephone

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 07 July 2009
  Tags: news | software | sound recordings |

  With the rising popularity of Skype and other VOIP tools, recording calls is a great way of creating resources, for example, long distance interviews or even preparing assessment material for language courses.

• The transforming user

  Posted by Stephen Gray on Thursday 02 July 2009
  Tags: delivery | digital collections | event |

  Last week the BBC hosted the presentation of the work of SEMEDIA (Search Environments for Media), a project co-funded by the European Union. SEMEDIA are a group of research institutes both private and public, who have taken on the challenge of meeting user needs.

• Musical contour search engine

  Posted by Steve Hull on Thursday 02 July 2009
  Tags: finding audio | music |

  The wonderful music site Musipedia has a music search facility which gives you a number of different ways of specifying the melody you want to identify.