All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'repositories'

Audio advice tagged 'repositories'

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.
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Audio via Blackboard

An overview of using Audio in Teaching and Learning, and an introductory guide to the facilities of Blackboard VLE for supporting audio-enriched content and communication.
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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.
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Delicious Bookmark Service

This advice document brings to your attention the free online bookmark service Delicious. Its ability to allow you to manage bookmarks by saving, searching and sharing will be of interest to anybody who has to manage many bookmarks for individuals or groups. It has applications of use for teaching and learning which will be described below.
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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.
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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.
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Cartoon promotes digital preservation

An excellent short animation from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) aims to spread the word about digital preservation in an easy to follow format.
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Launch of Europeana, the European online library

There’s a nice news post about it on the BBC website.
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