JISC Digitisation Programme: An Overview of Projects

JISC has released JISC Digitisation Programme: An Overview of Projects.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The JISC Digitisation Programme was launched in 2004, with funding of £10m divided between six projects. This was followed by a second phase, worth £12m, for 16 projects running from 2007 to 2009.

The collections capture a wide variety of aspects of UK life, from cabinet papers to first world war poetry, radio news to East End music hall, political cartoons to British borders, and in a diverse range of media, including sound, film, images, journals, newspapers, maps, theses, pamphlets and cartoons. . . .

For those involved in learning and teaching, these collections provide high-quality, rights-cleared material to download and adapt in lecture hall, seminar room, library or hall of residence. Again, placing the collections together allows new avenues to be opened up. Students exploring the visual arts can study the drawings, sketches and paintings from the Pre-Raphaelite Resource Site and then listen to artists' own opinions on their work and lives via interviews in the Archival Sound Recordings.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.