Case Studies

Still images case studies

• Case Study: University of Bristol Theatre Collection

  How the collection digitised its documents and photographs.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Audio case studies

• 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.

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Cross-media case studies

• 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.

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Other case studies

• 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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• Helpdesk and training provide expert guidance

  A new case study reveals how we have been of help to our FE colleagues.

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