All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'delivery'
Still images advice tagged 'delivery'
Image Management: Bright Interactive Asset Bank
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Bright Interactive Asset Bank.
Read full advice document...Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images
This document looks at the ways you can use the photo sharing site Flickr and some of its associated tools and services to help organise a collection of images.
Read full advice document...Image Management Software
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. We asked each of them the same set of questions, and the following is a list of those who have responded so far. Follow the links to find out more about each system.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Third Light Image Management System (IMS)
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Third Light Image Management System (IMS).
Read full advice document...Approaches to Describing Images
The following paper seeks to provide background to some methods for describing images that may be deployed by those building shared image collections. While the emphasis is on describing digital still images, those developing collections in other multimedia formats - particularly video - may find some of the methods and research outlined here applicable.
Read full advice document...Image Management: iBase Online Library and Asset Management
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from iBase Online Library and Asset Management.
Read full advice document...Image Management: LogicMighty MediaLibrary
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from LogicMighty MediaLibrary.
Read full advice document...Using Wikis to Find and Organise Images
Wikis are websites that allow groups of users to collaborate on content creation. Although largely text-based, they can include images. This document looks at ways in which you might use wikis as a source of images for use in your own work. It also provides an overview of how wikis handle images for those who already use or are thinking of setting up a wiki.
Read full advice document...Image Management: OCLC CONTENTdm
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from OCLC CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software.
Read full advice document...Image Management: FotoWare FotoWeb
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from FotoWare FotoWeb.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Daydream FocusOPEN
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Daydream FocusOPEN.
Read full advice document...Image Management: House of Images HPAC
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from House of Images HPAC.
Read full advice document...Image Management: LogicMighty PhotoLibrary
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from LogicMighty PhotoLibrary.
Read full advice document...Image Management: KE EMu
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from KE EMu.
Read full advice document...Image Management: exeGesIS LibraryLink
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from exeGesIS LibraryLink.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Willoughby MIMSY XG
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Willoughby MIMSY XG.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Picdar Media Mogul
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Picdar Media Mogul.
Read full advice document...Image Management: ModesXML
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from ModesXML.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Greenstone
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Greenstone.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Gallery Systems TMS (The Museum System)
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Gallery Systems TMS (The Museum System).
Read full advice document...Image Management: Cerious ThumbsPlus
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Cerious ThumbsPlus.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Extensis Portfolio
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Extensis Portfolio.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Zetcom MuseumPlus
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Zetcom MuseumPlus.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Innovative Millennium
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Innovative Millennium.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Madison Digital Image Database (MDID)
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Madison Digital Image Database (MDID).
Read full advice document...Image Management: Luna Imaging Insight Software Suite
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Luna Imaging Insight Software Suite.
Read full advice document...Image Management: imgSeek
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from imgSeek.
Read full advice document...Image Management: IMatch Digital Image Management Solution
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from IMatch Digital Image Management Solution.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Gallery
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Gallery.
Read full advice document...Image Management: Gallery Systems EmbARK
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Gallery Systems EmbARK.
Read full advice document...Choosing a System for Managing your Image Collection
It can be a daunting task choosing a system for managing an image collection - especially if you intend to use it to share your collection with colleagues or the wider world via the Web. As the companion paper to this indicates, there are a very wide variety of options (see Systems for Managing Digital Media Collections). You will probably find it useful to read that paper before you read this one.
Read full advice document...Case Study: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
How the collection digitised its documents and photographs.
Read full advice document...Image Backgrounds for Screen Presentations and the Web
Your choice of background for a presentation or website is an important part of the design process. A poor choice of background colour combined with conflicting coloured text or image can render a page unreadable.
Read full advice document...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.
Read full advice document...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.
Read full advice document...Using Images in Learning, Teaching and Research Materials
A brief guide to using images in educational materials.
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Moving images advice tagged 'delivery'
Adding Sign Language to a Video
When producing educational video for use on the web it is important to communicate clearly with your target audience. If your material is to be of use to the deaf community or viewers with hearing difficulties, there are a number of options: add subtitles or closed captions or an overlaid sign language interpreter who interprets spoken information in visual form. British Sign Language is the first language of over 70,000 people in the UK but many other sign languages exist internationally. This advice document looks at the practical aspects of adding a sign language interpreter to video delivered via the web.
Read full advice document...Introducing Screen Capture Software
We introduce a number of screen recording software options for capturing moving image and audio activity on a computer screen.
Read full advice document...Adding Closed Captions to Flash Videos
Providing a textual representation of the audio content of a video program can be time consuming, but for some users it can prove to be invaluable. Not only does captioning help meet W3C requirement by facilitating access for people who have hearing impairments, it also helps: users who have no audio playback hardware; mobile users who are sited in a quiet area (such as a library) and those without proper audio codecs installed on their machines. This short paper takes a practical look at how to add subtitles to a Flash video file for online delivery. This is only one method of many but is perhaps the most straightforward and quickest for beginners.
Read full advice document...Online Delivery Options for Digital Video
Why choose a video podcast over a progressive download? Or embedded a video rather than provide a video stream? This advice document looks at a selection of different technologies which can be used to deliver digital video online. Strengths and weaknesses of different delivery methods are examined to find out why one method might be chosen over another. This document is aimed at individuals or institutions with video content which they wish to share with users via the Internet.
Read full advice document...Using Video in Teaching and Learning
Audiovisual material provides a rich medium for teaching and learning. Video can effectively communicate complex information to a student and, if used creatively, can become a powerful expressive tool. This short paper looks at some potential benefits and challenges associated with using video materials in teaching and learning.
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Audio advice tagged 'delivery'
AAC Audio and the MP4 Media Format
A guide to the creation and use of AAC compressed audio resources. AAC is the successor to the popular MP3 format, and this document explains its advantages over MP3, as well as its place within the wider MPEG-4 media family.
Read full advice document...User Guide to MP3
A guide to the creation, manipulation and use of audio flies in the popular MP3 format, including a close look at the many audio and metadata options which MP3 offers, and its use within teaching and learning.
Read full advice document...Audio Digitisation Workflow
This paper discusses the considerations needed when planning a workflow for digitisation. It outlines some of the preparation needed when creating a workflow and precepts that need to be incorporated. The paper then offers an example generic workflow for digitising open-reel audiotapes onto a computer hard drive system.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'delivery'
Metadata Standards and Interoperability
This advice document aims to provide a comprehensive look at the various choices the developer of multimedia collections has in terms of metadata standards and the principles behind using them. It attempts to provide a synopsis of general metadata trends, a) in usage for audio, moving and still image format types; b) in specific areas of practice such as museums, archives, libraries and education; and, c) in various activities and tasks such as preservation, interoperability and resource discovery. For an overview of the whole series of papers, and an introduction to the metadata issues discussed here, please see An Introduction to Metadata.
Read full advice document...Distributing Teaching Presentations
This document looks at the ways teaching presentations can be distributed to their end users. While there is a choice of presentation programs, Microsoft PowerPoint is the dominant application and will therefore be the main tool covered in this paper.
Read full advice document...Asset Management: The Digital Asset Lab MediaFiler
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from The Digital Asset Lab MediaFiler.
Read full advice document...Asset Management: Papermule DAM and Workflow Engine
JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Papermule DAM & Workflow Engine.
Read full advice document...Using SlideShare to Share Presentations
This article provides an overview of a web service for uploading, embedding and sharing presentations called SlideShare. After a description of the features available we will look at its uses for teaching and learning.
Read full advice document...Graphical User Interface Design: Developing Usable and Accessible Collections
This paper looks at the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a digital collection. It takes a general view of facilitating effective access to a digital resource and then examines more closely the issues of usability and then accessibility. It is intended to be of use to collection managers wishing to grant access to a digital resource.
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Training courses tagged
BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days
The following units are the BTEC accredited assessment components of our still image professional development certificate and award.
Read course description...Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course
The use of video in education has ceased to be an occasional occurrence, but the quality of videos has not kept pace with their popularity. 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.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a two-day course. Course fees are as follows:
- £275 for participants from UK Higher or Further Education
- £325 for participants from government, charities, libraries, galleries or museums
- Prices for all other participants are available on request
JISC Advance - Digital Media and Copyright Seminar
Bringing together experts in digital media and copyright law this seminar created by the JISC Advance services, JISC Digital Media and JISC Legal, uses common real-world scenarios to focus on how copyright impacts on the use of digital media. The seminar will allow participants to gain an understanding of the common issues and challenges facing institutions in the current copyright landscape.
Seminar fees: £100 per participant. Includes lunch and refreshments. There will be a pre-seminar online exercise attendees are requested to complete. This is merely to provide some background knowledge prior to the seminar.
Objectives
- To increase confidence in dealing with multi-layer intellectual property rights in digital media
- To identify appropriate approaches to dealing with the uncertainties of copyright law in relation to digital media
- To share experiences of both issues and solutions to IPR challenges in relation to digital media
Building Effective Screencasts
Screencasts - videos of on-screen computer activity, accompanied by voice-over, and possibly other media (webcam video, Powerpoint slides etc) - have in recent times increased massively in popularity, scope and acceptance, and can now provide a sophisticated learning experience, incorporating slides, images, video, audio, screen annotation, subtitles, interactive quizzes and more.. Whether you want to narrate a presentation, demonstrate the use of software, or record and share your screen for any other reason, a screencast may well be the answer.
This practical one-day workshop provides an opportunity to learn how to maximise the value of screencasting in presentation, demonstration and digital storytelling for teaching and learning, in the context of the whole workflow from planning your own short screencast to rendering it as a video. We've even had some delegates posting finished screencasts to YouTube by the end of the day!
Read course description...Digital Media Restoration (Audio-Visual only)
Analogue media deteriorates at an alarming rate and few digitisation projects can hope to retrieve great signals from aged collections. In order to archive maximum usefulness some basic digital remastering is often required. Fortunately, today's digital tools mean we can easily remove unwanted 'defects' whether hisses and scratches from shellac discs or the distorted colours of old videotapes
N.B. This course covers digital restoration of audio-visual resources only. It does not cover restoration of still images
Read course description...Advanced Techniques in Digital Image Capture
This course looks at the technical background behind, and procedures for, image capture and optimisation delivered through hands-on activities. This workshop will teach you how to produce the correct end product for your intended purpose and teach you the easy 'science' of scanning to remove the guesswork from your image capture.
Read course description...Digital Photography - Taking Control of your SLR
This action packed course looks in depth at using a digital SLR's creative controls to put you in charge of your photography. You will also have plenty of hands-on practice with the camera and be shown how to effectively illuminate 2D and 3D objects using tungsten and fluorescent studio lighting.
Read course description...Digital Photography - Getting Started with your SLR
This entry level course will provide you with an understanding of the techniques and skills needed to produce great quality images from a digital SLR camera with ease. Some illuminating background theory will be supported by hands-on practical exercises in photography.
Read course description...Colour Management
Effective colour management is vital within the digital workflow and anyone working with digital images should understand and be employing the core principles. This training course introduces colour management theory and 'good practice' to ensure that you understand how to achieve consistent and accurate colour between applications, platforms, and devices.
Read course description...Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to record and produce recordings of spoken word audio, with specific emphasis being placed upon the recording of lectures, seminars and events. You will learn the basic concepts of recording technologies and through practical exercises you will learn how to confidently apply these to practical situations. The workshop will also introduce you to ideas for delivering new media such as podcasting, and suggest methods for managing your digital recordings.
Read course description...Introduction to Image Metadata
This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your image collection, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Read course description...Digitising Analogue Video Recordings
Over the past fifty years the videotape has grown from an obscure television production tool into a vibrant and vital social document. But videotape has proved to be a fragile long-term medium and its contents are at risk. This risk can only be mitigated through careful planning. This workshop will investigate the challenges associated with the preservation of videotapes. Through practical exercises, we will look at how digitising materials to archival standards can both safeguard and help develop a collection. We will also look at the challenge of creating a sustainable digital collection. Quality assurance procedures and best practice will be referred to throughout.
Read course description...Essential Techniques in Digital Image Capture
This entry level course provides an easy to understand theoretical overview of digital images and image capture combined with practical exercises using both a scanner and digital SLR camera for those getting started with creating digital images.
Read course description...Using Digital Media in VLEs
This one day workshop focuses on the effective use of digital media online including the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). During the workshop attendees will discover how to improve their presentation resources, know when and how digital media can be used to enhance learning materials and be able to successfully embed their new knowledge in their VLE and online services.
Read course description...Finding Free-to-Use Images, Video and Audio
If you've ever needed to find images, video or audio you can use in your work materials then this course is for you. It will guide you to all the best places to locate free-to-use, copyright-cleared digital media resources for use in teaching and learning. You'll never use Google to find digital media again!
Read course description...Essential Photoshop Skills
This course will get you up and running with Adobe Photoshop. You will learn key concepts and skills to enable you to understand and start using this exciting application with confidence.
Read course description...Managing Digital Media Collections
Now that many important materials are in a digital form, building an accessible online media collection which successfully delivers images, sounds, video and other media is a goal of many institutions.
Until recently, expensive Digital Asset Management systems where the most viable option, but now open source server applications such as Dspace, Omeka and Drupal hold the promise of truly interoperable and standards-based collection management.
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...Image Optimisation for Print and Web
This course covers the essential skills you need in order to maximise the quality and visual appeal of digital images from both scanners and digital cameras. You will learn the tips and tricks necessary to transform your images quickly and easily.
Read course description...Building a Departmental Image Collection
This course will provide you with a hands-on experience of creating, managing and delivering a departmental image collection. You will acquire the foundation knowledge required to make well informed decisions about building an image library. You will also have the opportunity to discuss and share information with people from the HE/FE/Cultural sector facing similar issues in order to help you develop practical solutions.
Read course description...Copyright and Digital Media
This informative and stimulating course is run by a leading expert in copyright. It looks in-depth at how copyright and other legal issues impact upon digital media and it will enable you to develop practical approaches to clearing and managing those rights within your own collections.
Read course description...Digitising Analogue Audio
To meet the skills required by libraries, archives and institutions to digitise their existing analogue collections, this course aims to provide a complete introduction to the theory and practicalities of successfully digitising analogue audio resources. The workshop will provide hands-on tuition alongside presenting theoretical knowledge with group discussions of topics surrounding the digital lifecycle, in a digitisation project based context. The workshop has been designed as a precursor for our more technical, media specific training modules. The practical elements will involve digitising audiocassette tapes as example media.
Read course description...Scanning with the CLA Licence
This course provides a thorough practical overview of how to digitise images and text from print-based materials. You will use a desktop scanner and related technology to effectively enable you to leverage the rights granted to you by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) scanning licence.
Read course description...Digitising Grooved Discs and Open Reel Audio
This course is designed to meet the requirements of staff in libraries, archives and other related institutions needing to digitise existing analogue collections. The course builds on our Digitising Analogue Audio workshop, by introducing a range of legacy audio media and examining them in more detail.
The workshop will provide the opportunity to both handle these media and configure the equipment needed for their successful playback. A recommended, pragmatic workflow will be followed.
Essential theoretical and interesting historical information is included which together contribute to understanding: the development of audio recording technologies; how to handle and best reproduce each medium; how to digitise each medium to archival standard.
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Blog entries tagged 'delivery'
my-Ditto: easy and secure remote access to data
The people at Dane-Elec have come up with a simple and inexpensive way to provide secure access to data anywhere on the Internet.
Read blog entry...“The most accessible player on the web”
The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has recently released a new media player which they claim meets the “highest level of accessibility”.
Read blog entry...The 12 Days of JISC Digital Media Christmas
Tuesday the 7th of December 2010 sees JISC Digital Media launch the 12 Days of JISC Digital Media Christmas, a very lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek series of videos.
Read blog entry...Event summary - ESTICT
Last week I attended a really inspiring day run by the Engaging Students Through In-Class Technology (ESTICT) SIG Steering Group and hosted by the University of Bath.
Read blog entry...Organising your images with Flickr
We've just released a freshly updated version of our advice document Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images.
Read blog entry...HTML5 vs. Flash (à la VHS vs Betamax)
Recent events have pitched Adobe against Apple in an online video standards stand-off. This has made it difficult for those responsible for online video delivery, finding themselves having to take a side and make a some very difficult decisions.
Read blog entry...How to make a vinyl record
Vinyl records. Remember them?
Read blog entry...The problem with live video
Over at Techcrunch, Michael Seibel of Justin.tv highlights several problems with live video on the web.
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PowerPoint tip - adding YouTube
Over at David Hopkins e-Learning blog is a handy 'how-to' for adding YouTube videos within PowerPoint.
Read blog entry...Switch and stamp your sound
A really handy little application I find myself constantly using is Switch, a free audio file encoder which can singularly and batch convert files from pretty much any format to, well, pretty much any other format, with complete control over internal settings.
Read blog entry...Describing your digital resources
We have just published our completely updated advice documents on metadata.
Read blog entry...Blogs, wikis and photo sharing sites
We've just released three newly updated documents in the Still images advice section.
Read blog entry...DIY Internet radio station
S3FM is a simple facility that lets anyone create their own Web-based radio station.
Read blog entry...The transforming user
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.
Read blog entry...Voice recorders on the iPhone
First impressions of the Voice Memo function in the new v3.0 iPhone software and comparison with an equivalent existing utility.
Read blog entry...Advice doc - Quandary
We have just released our advice document that will introduce you to the Quandary interactive decision software.
Read blog entry...Newly updated metadata advice
We have just revised our Metadata Standards and Interoperability advice paper.
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Training courses
- Building Effective Screencasts 12 June 2012
- Managing Digital Media Collections 14 June 2012
- Digitising Analogue Video Recordings 20 June 2012
- Introduction to Image Metadata 05 July 2012
- BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days 09 July 2012
- Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course 25 July 2012
