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An Overview of Projects and Processes

An Overview of Projects and Processes. Higher Education Digitisation Service Joanne Lomax Smith http://heds.herts.ac.uk. What is HEDS?. Established 1996 Centralised service Funded centrally by HE and FE Clients are not just education sector. The Service. Free First Response

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An Overview of Projects and Processes

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  1. An Overview of Projects and Processes Higher Education Digitisation Service Joanne Lomax Smith http://heds.herts.ac.uk

  2. HEDS: Overview What is HEDS? • Established 1996 • Centralised service • Funded centrally by HE and FE • Clients are not just education sector

  3. HEDS: Overview The Service • Free First Response • Email or telephone • No cost or commitment

  4. HEDS: Overview High resolution, high quality scanning Optical Character Recognition Archive quality digital images Image enhancement and adjustment Metadata creation Rekeying of text Mark up into XML, TEI or EAD formats Bound volume scanning Microfilm scanning in bitonal or greyscale Photographic prints and postcards Transparencies - 35mm, 60mm, large format Lithographic prints Glass plate negatives Negatives - strips and single frame Microfilm - 16mm and 35mm, bitonal and greyscale Bound volumes Paper - exam papers, grey literature Disbound books and journals Production Services

  5. HEDS: Overview Consultancy Services • Whole digitisation project life-cycle • Business processes • Project planning • Technical standards and workflow • Developing Funding Applications • Ongoing project support

  6. HEDS: Overview The HEDS Team • Service Director - UH’s Director of Library & Information Services • Service Manager • Two Consultants • Business Administrator

  7. HEDS: Overview Consultancy: The British Library Refugee Studies Centre New Opportunities Fund applicants Image: Transparencies - artwork, manuscripts, stained glass, suffragette banners Prints and postcards - local history collections Microfilm: Manuscripts Political pamphlets Paper: Newsreel scripts 17th century Trade Directories Examination Papers Monographs Recent Projects

  8. HEDS: Overview Projects in Detail • Shetland Museum • Remote location • Fragile collection • HEDS Feasibility Study

  9. Shetland Museum

  10. ASA Monographs

  11. ASA Monographs

  12. Chaucer Manuscripts

  13. Chaucer Manuscripts

  14. Norfolk LIS

  15. Norfolk LIS

  16. HEDS: Overview Using HEDS - University of Oxford • Consultancy • ODLS • Business planning • Refugee Studies Centre grey literature collection • Feasibility and pilot • Production • advice on portal development

  17. HEDS: Overview Using HEDS - University of Oxford • Production • Academic manuscript • Examination Papers • Support • Funding applications - NOF, RSLP, AHRB, Andrew W Mellon Foundation

  18. HEDS: Overview Where next? • New Opportunities Fund • £50 million government funds for digitisation • HEDS - advising applicants & providing specialist information for central advisory service • Grants announced summer 2001 - then production, contract management and further consultancy

  19. HEDS: Overview Where next? - Europe • METAe - http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/ • Developing a software package to automate and improve the generation of metadata • New technologies for character, layout and document recognition • HEDS: manage the advisory group and edit the newsletter

  20. HEDS: Overview Where next? - Europe • European Task Force on Journal Digitisation • Prioritising journals titles for digitisation. Being developed under Liber http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/liber-wg/ • Developed out of a conference in Copenhagen • Recommendations on establishment and implementation of a pan-European approach

  21. HEDS: Overview Concluding remarks • HEDS provide a service that is not found elsewhere in the UK • Impartial advice and consultancy • Production services with expert bureau • Knowledge of the state of the art within the UK to share with clients

  22. An Overview of Projects and Processes Higher Education Digitisation Service Joanne Lomax Smith http://heds.herts.ac.uk

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