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Case Study: Making the Case
The Department of Russian at the University of Bristol has long enjoyed a reputation among students and academics as one of the UK’s top Russian departments, rating third in the Independent's Complete University Guide in 2011 and described as a ‘model for other Russian Departments to follow’ in a recent external review.
Following an unsuccessful application for a research grant, which was rejected on technical grounds, the department approached JISC Digital Media to re-work the technical aspects of its project proposal.
The department wanted to ensure that, in the notoriously competitive funding landscape for humanities research, it could present the best possible case for the money and retain its position at the forefront of its field through the ensuing project.
Case Study: Arts and Social Sciences Digitisation Project
The Arts and Social Sciences Library at the University of Bristol undertook to centralise the digitisation of published course material held on its shelves in order to make key subject texts available to a wider range of students, whilst staying within the terms of its Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) licence.
Whilst improving its learning and teaching credentials by enhancing students’ ability to access vital published material, the project also enabled the Library to gain increased organisational efficiency through the centralised management and monitoring of the process.
Case Study: Screencast Assistance at the University of Bristol
Among other roles, the Education Support Unit (ESU) at the University of Bristol provides support and training in the use of Blackboard, the University's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Following the implementation of a new version of Blackboard the ESU approached JISC Digital Media for help in creating a set of screencast resources to support their users in the transition.
Case Study: Video Assist at the University of Nottingham
A team at the University of Nottingham used Video Assist consultation to gain expertise in creating a series of videos for a Masters programme in contaminated land management. This was accomplished by JISC Digital Media providing:
- Telephone advice about equipment purchases
- On-site, hands-on tutorials in using equipment and editing techniques
- In situ analysis of the suitability of lecture theatres for shooting videos
Case Study: iTunes U in practice
With a handful of universities in the UK starting to use iTunes U for delivering their audio and video productions online, Barry Cornelius from Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) has shared this account of Oxford University's use of iTunes U. Oxford started using iTunes U in October 2008 and now hosts links to a wealth of audio and video resources, the most popular ones being downloaded 2500 times a week!
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A case study reveals how we have been of help to our FE colleagues.
Case Study: Good Newts / Bad Newts
A representative scenario, designed to help address common areas of interest regarding the audio and screen capture of PowerPoint presentations in lecture theatres.
Presented to us as a fictional scenario, designed to incorporate typical real-world issues and key areas of interest.
Case Study: Learning Lessons from Other Digitisation Projects
This document proposes a number of potential challenges associated with the digitisation of a collection. It then examines the value of lessons learned from previous projects when attempting to meet those challenges. It is intended to be of use to resource management staff considering the digitisation of all or part of their collection.
Case Study: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
How the collection digitised its documents and photographs.
Case Study: History of Art, University College Cork
This short case study looks at how the newly established History of Art department at University College Cork went about building a collection of images to support its teaching. Although it would have preferred to create an all-digital collection, the constraints of time, money and copyright led the department to take a hybrid approach, using a mix of formats, drawn from several different sources.
Case Study: Staffordshire Past Track
Staffordshire Past Track is a web-based multimedia archive related to the history and cultural heritage of Staffordshire. The bulk of the collection is comprised of photographic or printed images from the past 150 years. Noteworthy features of the Past Track project are its bespoke content management system and a user interface that provides, among other functions, map-based searching, an image zoom facility, and user-annotated albums.
