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Digitised Content in the UK Research Library
and Archives Sector
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee
Project Head: Adrienne
Muir
Duration: 1 November 2004-7 March 2005
Description: In August 2004, the JISC
and CURL Digital Content Creation & Curation Task Force issued an
invitation to tender for a study of the current provision of digitised
collections for researchers in the UK higher education sector. The objectives
of this study were to:
• Produce a high level survey of digitised material, both already
available and in the process of being created, held in UK research collections
across all disciplines
• Survey demand for digitised material and identify gaps in existing
provision
• Develop a mechanism for identifying future digitisation priorities
• Review funding structures and opportunities and assess possible
ways of funding priority areas
• Recommend standards and formats for future digitisation projects
• Provide an outline action plan for a national digitisation strategy
for the UK research community.
Publications:
Bültmann, B., R. Hardy, A. Muir & C. Wictor,
2006. Digitised Content in the UK Research Library and Archives Sector.
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 38(2), 105-122.
Bültmann, B., R. Hardy, A. Muir & C. Wictor, 2005. Digitised
content in the UK Research Library and archives sector: a report to the
Consortium of Research Libraries and the Joint Information Systems Committee.
Contact: A.Muir,
Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough,
Leics.
LE11 3TU.
Tel: +44 (0) 1509 228064
Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223053
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