JISC Digital Media Consultancy - How we can help you

JISC Digital Media provides a range of consultancy services that can be specifically tailored to help you with all aspects of digitisation projects and digital media creation and conversion.

We have years of practical hands-on experience with digital content creation and bring together a team with an extensive knowledge and expertise of digitisation and creation within the educational, cultural heritage and commercial sectors.

This wealth of experience means that we are all well placed to provide consultancy services to a wide range of organisations that are engaging in the creation of digital media.

Some of the benefits of using JISC Digital Media consultancy to help you with your project are:

• A higher quality product - advising you on maximising your investment in resources
• Saving time and money - getting it right the first time
• Keeping to best practice - don't re-invent the wheel
• Re-assurance - knowing you have the experience of JISC Digital Media behind you
• Sticking to the standards - understanding and implementing all relevant standards
• Keeping on target - JISC Digital Media can help accurately predict project timeframes and resource requirements

We have worked with a number of organisations within the educational and cultural heritage sectors on major projects.

Areas of Expertise

JISC Digital Media can provide high quality and in-depth support to your project in a wide range of areas, including:

Project Proposals

• De-mystifying the funder's technical requirements and standards guidelines
• Suggesting possible infrastructure and methodologies and estimating technical budget
• Writing technical appendices and project specifications, including benchmarks

Project Management

• Strategic planning
• Designing and undertaking user-surveys
• Designing and undertaking feasibility surveys - estimating time and costs for projects and getting the best from the collection
• Designing and undertaking 'Risk Analysis' reports
• Digitisation standards - making sense of image, moving images and sound resources, metadata and interoperability standards
• Scoping out the right equipment and methodologies for all aspects of digitisation/creation
• Effective PR and marketing of the digital collection
• Exit strategies - how to turn the project into a service

Capture and Creation

• Establishing capture infrastructure - choosing the best equipment to supply the required quality
• Establishing capture workflow - making the most efficient use of the infrastructure and staff to support the creation of high quality digital objects
• Setting up capture infrastructure - testing and calibrating

Data Capture and Creation

• Establishing best practice in metadata collection - choosing standards
• Establishing a Management System - choosing the most appropriate system for the project
• Database care - handling legacy media and metadata and also migrating data
• Establishing database design - creating and initially filling data

Quality Assurance

• Establishing appropriate quality benchmarks for capture/creation
• Establishing protocols to check metadata
• Establishing protocols to check digital media quality
• Formative and summative quality control work of media and metadata

Training and Support

JISC Digital Media has established a reputation for providing high quality hands-on training to meet the needs of manager and technical staff working on digitisation projects, and can provide:

• Individual and group training
• Pre- and Post- training support
• Training using industry-standard equipment and software
• In-house training on project equipment

If you would like to discuss how JISC Digital Media might be able to help you and/or your project, please contact us.