All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'digital collections'
Still images advice tagged 'digital collections'
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...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 Blogs to Find and Organise Images
Blogs tend to be text-based but they often also include images. This advice document provides an overview of blogs, considering how they can be used as both sources of images and as tools for managing and presenting your own images.
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: 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...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: 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...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...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: 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...Using Optical Media for Digital Preservation
This document looks at the issues involved with storing digital images on optical media, specifically recordable CDs and DVDs.
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...Copyright and Digital Images
Copyright and related rights issues are central to the use of digital images within Higher and Further education. This advice paper provides a broad overview of copyright and related rights as they affect digital images.
Read full advice document...Roles and Responsibilities for Staff Involved in Building Digital Image Collections
Creators of digital image collections, have important choices, decisions and responsibilities. This paper examines the role of copyright for staff who may be involved in the building of image collections.
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...Data Protection
This advice document provides a simple introduction to the Data Protection Act, but considers in some depth the issues relating to photographs.
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 'digital collections'
Choosing a Digital Video File Type
Choosing a file format can prove overwhelming for someone new to the world of digital video. The aims of this document are to discuss some of the key factors that should be considered before selecting a file format and to suggest suitable choices for specific applications
Read full advice document...Transcoding Digital Video
‘Digitisation’ is a process in which analogue materials become digital, while ‘transcoding’ is the shift from one digital format to another digital format. This brief paper looks at some common situations which call for transcoding, such as when ‘migrating’ data to new formats in order to avoid obsolescence.
Read full advice document...Planning a Video Digitisation Project
The digitisation of an existing video collection has many potential benefits; newly digitised materials offer opportunities to reach new users and to engage with new and existing users in new ways. Digitisation may also prove to be the only viable way to make our vulnerable video materials available to generations of future users. The complexities of achieving a successfully digitised and fully accessible video collection can be considerable but through careful preparation, the task can be broken down into manageable stages.
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Audio advice tagged 'digital collections'
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...Metadata and Audio Resources
Working with metadata can be a very time-consuming and resource heavy activity, so it is important to have a firm understanding of your objectives before initial decisions are made. Before reading this advice document, it is worth familiarising yourself with the document An Introduction to Metadata.
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.
Read full advice document...Choosing a Digital Audio File Format
The choice of file formats can often prove overwhelming for someone new to the world of digital audio. The aim of this document is to discuss some of the key factors that should be considered before choosing a format and suggest suitable file formats for specific applications.
Read full advice document...Equipping an Audio Digitisation System
This document aims to provide information needed when equipping an audio digitisation project of analogue media to a digital hard drive. This document is written with the digitisation of stereo and mono files in mind. For information regarding digitising multi-track recordings, there is a section at the end of this document with some recommendations and considerations. This document is intended to provide a guide to staff who wish to undertake digitisation projects of any scale, be it small or large.
This document is intended to be read alongside Selecting an Audio Digitisation System, which provides a variety of system specifications for differing budgets.
Read full advice document...Selecting an Audio Digitisation System
This document is a discussion of some of the primary audio digitisation systems available for digitising analogue audio media. This document is intended to be of use to staff engaged in the digitisation of analogue audio, whether dealing with only a few or a few hundred tapes.
Read full advice document...An Introduction to Digital Audio
A guide to the theory of digital audio, explaining the process of analogue to digital conversion and how sound is represented and stored in digital form.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'digital collections'
Copyright and Other Rights for Creating Time-based Media Resources
This advice document provides some basic information on rights issues associated with creating time-based digital media resources. By time-based we mean resources that change over time - including spoken audio, music, animation, and video - as opposed to still images or screen shots, which do not change over time. Rights issues include copyright, recording rights, moral rights and performance rights.
Read full advice document...Asset Management: Papermule DAM & 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...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...File Formats and Compression
This document looks at the theory of file formats and the common methods of data compression.
Read full advice document...Systems for Managing Digital Media Collections
Everyone’s collection and context is unique, so your choice of a system (or systems) for managing your digital media will require a careful assessment of your needs and resources and an evaluation of the available options. This paper provides an overview of a number of different approaches to media management: from some very cheap and ‘low-tech’ approaches to much more complex and specialised solutions.
Read full advice document...Signposts to Relevant Organisations
This page provides links to four types of organisation that digitisation project staff may be interested in: Academic Service Providers; Public Sector Organisations; Standards Organisations; International Organisations.
Read full advice document...Links to Video, Image and Audio Resources
There are a multitude of websites that provide access to a wide range of digital media resources (images, video and audio) covering many subject areas. This can be very bewildering if you are searching for specific resources to include in learning packages for use in the lecture/classroom or for inclusion in a virtual learning environment. The purpose of this paper is to provide links to a number of such websites.
Read full advice document...Audiovisual Signal Types and Interconnects
Over the decades various technical standards have been adopted for analogue and then for digital video and audio. As the popularity of systems declined they were generally replaced by improved technologies, making many system configurations entirely obsolete. Obsolete interconnects can be difficult to use in conjunction with modern equipment.
This paper looks at the nature of audio and video signals and then surveys significant historical interconnects (such as RCA) and contemporary, digital equivalents (such as SDI and SPDIF).
Any method of transferring digital data, such as USB (Universal Serial Bus) can potentially be used to transfer digital audiovisual files, but such technologies are not primarily associated with audio video signal data and so are not discussed here.
Read full advice document...Overview of JISC Digital Media Materials for Digitisation Project Staff
This guide provides an overview of the JISC Digital Media website materials we think digitisation project staff will find useful during the lifetime of a digitisation project.
Read full advice document...Links to Digital Media and Digital Preservation Organisations
The list below survey a selection of audiovisual and digital preservation related organisations and provides links to their websites.
Read full advice document...Budgeting for a Digitisation Project
It is not possible to provide detailed information on budgeting for a digitisation project; these costs will depend on the nature, condition and amount of analogue materials to be digitised and the extent and accuracy of existing metadata. However, some general advice which assigns comparative values to different activities within a project may help when planning a digitisation project.
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.
Read full advice document...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.
Read full advice document...Project Management for a Digitisation Project
This paper takes a look at the role and responsibilities of the digitisation project manager. It addresses common managerial challenges such balancing the expectations of stakeholders and ensuring the of quality of output. It is intended to be of use to the management team of time limited digitisation projects or to resource management staff planning to digitise their collection.
Read full advice document...Risk Assessment for Digitisation Projects
This paper identifies some of the more common risks associated with a digitisation project. It is intended to be of use to the management team of time limited digitisation projects or to permanent collection management staff planning to digitise.
Read full advice document...Quality Assurance and Digitisation Projects
This document examines issues relating to quality assurance from a project management perspective. It proposes a four-layer model for assuring quality and looks at some of the more common reasons for problems with output quality. This document is intended to be used by collection managers intending to digitise their resources or by managers of digitisation projects.
Read full advice document...Sustainability of Digital Collections
Once funding for a digitisation project comes to an end, how will you ensure the long term sustainability of your newly-created collection? This is a fundamental question that needs to be addressed at the outset of the project. This document looks at different approaches to sustainability and discusses the factors you need to take into consideration when planning for sustainability. We will highlight the practical steps a project can take and examine various options for financing the ongoing maintenance and availability of the collection beyond the life of the project.
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Training courses tagged 'digital collections'
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...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...Finding Free-to-Use Images Online
If you’ve ever needed to find images online that 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 images for use in both teaching and learning. You’ll never use Google to find images again!
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.
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Blog entries tagged 'digital collections'
Free-to-use images from US National Archives
Another great selection of images is now available for all to use without restriction via Flickr.
Read blog entry...Describing your digital resources
We have just published our completely updated advice documents on metadata.
Read blog entry...Video, audio and image file formats
We’ve just released a fully updated version of our advice document on File Formats and Compression.
Read blog entry...Seminar slides now available
The presentation slides from our two recent digital media seminars are now available.
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...Performance seminar resources now available
Following the success of our three-day seminar themed around the digital documentation of performance, we’ve made a whole host of documents available.
Read blog entry...Updated advice document - Systems for managing digital media collections
Building on our previous advice document which focused on systems for digital images, this new release encompasses systems for all three media, still image, moving image and audio.
Read blog entry...British Library world and traditional music archive is now free online!
The British Library has just placed its entire world and traditional music sound archive online for free access.
Read blog entry...Sounds of the Brum-derground
The Birmingham Music Archive (BMA) is a cracking new project spearheaded by Jez Collins as a collaboration between Birmingham Central Library and Birmingham City University.
Read blog entry...Free-to-attend digitisation seminars
JISC Digital Media have just announced a series of free-to-attend seminars in September.
Read blog entry...New digital restoration course among autumn training dates
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...JISC Digital Content Conference
June 30th saw the JISC Digital Content Conference hosted at the Cotswold Water Park.
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...Helpdesk and training provide expert guidance
A new case study reveals how we have been of help to our FE colleagues.
Read blog entry...Free moving image resources!
The Prelinger Archive is a collection of ‘ephemeral’ films: things like ads, educational films, industrial films, things that don’t usually get collected in archives.
Read blog entry...ALISS: one day summer conference
The Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences (ALISS) are holding a one day summer conference at Coventry University on 29th July 2009.
Read blog entry...Free-to-use historic photos via Flickr
In the 16 months since Flickr launched The Commons, the photo sharing site’s partnership with publicly-held photography collections has seen close to 30 institutions signing up.
Read blog entry...Video, image and audio resources
We’ve just released a new advice document: Links to Video, Image and Audio Resources.
Read blog entry...Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) survey
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) provides free access to over 100,000 high quality digital images which are copyright cleared and free for use in UK education.
Read blog entry...Newly updated metadata advice
We have just revised our Metadata Standards and Interoperability advice paper.
Read blog entry...Unlocking Audio at the British Library
JISC Digital Media will be at the Unlocking Audio conference at the British Library on Monday and Tuesday next week (16-17 March).
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