The course would suit a candidate that requires a broad introduction to creating, editing using and managing a digital image collection. The skills covered could be used by anyone who is involved directly or indirectly in digitising or managing a collection of digital images. The skills in the course can be usefully employed in the education and cultural heritage sectors, or wherever a standard-based approach to image capture and delivery is required.
Read course description...Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching contains guidance material aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording or patient data for learning and teaching. It will also be of interest and use to other clinical and healthcare workers as well as to university staff where patient recordings are made available for learning and teaching. Learn about the ethical principles that underpin the guidelines.
Read course description...Internet Audio Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find audio resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find video resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
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Internet for Image Searching - would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently?
Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills.
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This course is intended to instil basic competence in the many areas of knowledge that are needed to produce good video work. A hands-on approach is taken, such that during the two days of learning about video techniques the participants will actually produce two short videos. All equipment and facilities will be supplied.
Read course description...This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your digital collections, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Read course description...This one day course will offer a model of digital collection management, based upon open source solutions. Attendees will gain hands-on experience of planning, building, managing and delivering a digital media collection.
Read course description...Some excellent advice and tutorials on Audacity's wiki
Read blog entry...The British Library has annouced plans to work with Google to digitise and make available thousands of texts dating back to the 18th century.
Read blog entry...Creative Cow has published a wonderful article from Ken Weissman, supervisor of the Film Preservation Lab at the Library of Congress in the US.
Read blog entry...Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting printed text into a computer readable format.
Read blog entry...A new music repository from King's College London, the CHARM Sound File Search engine allows the user to browse and search a library of around 5,000 individual sides of 78s, digitised to a high standard.
Read blog entry...For anyone who's ever wondered what the grooves on a vinly recording really look like, here's your answer.
Read blog entry...We have just published a new advice document on scanning and photography.
Read blog entry...The keen-eyed among you will have already noticed we have just released details of our new training programme for September to December.
Read blog entry...The Tape Project is releaseing a series of recordings on 1/4 inch, reel-to-reel, 15 ips, half track, analogue tape.
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