PLEASE NOTE: This is a two-day course. Course fees are as follows:
Anyone wishing to create videos or to supervise the creation of videos. This workshop assumes no prior experience, although knowledge of camcorders, audio recording and video editing is useful.
By the end of the course attendees should be able to:
Relevant for both owners and users of copyright-protected digital media. It will suit those involved with managing or clearing rights within a digital media workflow, learning and teaching applications, or administrative and marketing purposes. Also relevant for individuals who simply want to learn about copyright and digital media in general.
Anyone wanting to ensure they are getting the most out of their digital images. This workshop uses Adobe Photoshop and some previous experience in capturing digital images and using image editors is recommended but not essential.
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.
This workshop is aimed at attendees planning to build, manage or deliver a digital collection, especially those within the educational or cultural heritage sectors. You do not need any prior experience of collection management but a small amount of reading will be required prior to the workshop.
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.
This course is aimed at those digitising audio collections - including librarians, archivists, and support staff - who wish to gain more media-specific audio knowledge. It will be of interest to those involved in digitising all types of acoustic and magnetic media, including tapes and grooved discs, and those with an interest in audio recording history. It will also help project designers identify the scope of their audio digitisation workflow.
Anyone needing to know how to achieve and maintain colour consistency between devices. This workshop uses Adobe Photoshop and some previous experience in capturing digital images and using image editors is recommended.
This workshop is aimed at those who require basic image manipulation and optimisation techniques for editing images. It is assumed that attendees have no prior understanding or experience of digital imaging or image editing applications and it is therefore a good choice for people starting out with Photoshop.
The workshop is targeted at the non-specialist with some understanding of IT but little audiovisual experience. Attendees may be caretakers to a small number of videos or may be involved in larger, specially funded projects. Attendees may also be wishing to gain an overview of the process prior to outsourcing video digitisation work.
Anyone new to describing and cataloguing images. Some previous knowledge of metadata will be useful but not essential.
This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to build on basic or existing digital photography skills and knowledge.
Anyone new to or wanting to familiarise themselves with a digital SLR camera. No prior experience is required. The workshop uses Adobe Photoshop and cameras will be provided.
Those with some basic experience and knowledge of digital capture. Particularly aimed at those involved at the front line of digitisation projects and to teaching and research staff who wish to improve the quality of their captured images. This workshop uses scanners, digital SLR cameras and Adobe Photoshop as an image editor.
Anyone needing the foundation skills to undertake basic scanning and digital imaging. This workshop uses Adobe Photoshop as an image editor.
This course is aimed at those wishing to embark on digitising their audio, including librarians, archivists, and support staff. The course is also aimed at project managers wishing to understand the technical aspects of digitisation. It is aimed at those with little or no previous knowledge of the subject area, however a good general understanding of IT is required.
n.b. This course covers digital restoration of audio-visual resources only. It does not cover restoration of still images
This course is aimed at digitisation departments and specially funded digitisation projects. It is expected that attendees will have collection management or technical backgrounds although the content has many other potential applications.