JISC RSC YH Exchange News

The New York Times has reported that as of 24/09/09, the Settlement was officially withdrawn from the New York court where it was being decided.
Whilst the settlement may be withdrawn from the time being, issues that it has raised may be reinvigorated in the future, therefore JISC continues to be very keen to gather views [...]

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The hand-written annotations Charles Darwin made on 700 of the books in his personal library were painstakingly transcribed in the 1980s.
Now, thanks to high-resolution digital imagery and an international partnership, Darwin’s marginalia will be digitally married to the texts they illuminate, allowing scholars to learn his thoughts on a wide range of topics.
The partnership is [...]

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Rare, unpublished and previously unavailable recordings have been launched online thanks to JISC funding for the British Library’s archival sound recordings project.
28,000 recordings covering 2,000 hours of sound are now online at http://sounds.bl.uk as part of JISC’s digitisation programme, which has invested over £22 million in making available a wide range of heritage and
scholarly resources [...]

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Two of the oldest known copies of the Qur’an are now available to researchers and scholars across the world as part of a major project to digitise one of the richest collections of Eastern manuscripts.
The two Qur’ans, one of which may date from the 7th century A.D, are part of the priceless Mingana Collection, which is housed by the [...]

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The JISC-funded A Vision of Britain Through Time website launches today, giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed.
The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can be explored in new depth online, which unites more than 200 [...]

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The world’s largest digital library of 18th century printed books grows even larger for UK academic community
Following an agreement between JISC Collections and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, Part 2 of the ambitious digitisation project, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), is now available free of charge to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
With [...]

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Two million online digitised pages of 19th century newspaper, take researchers back to the future.
The British Library, in partnership with JISC and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has today launched the public version of its 19th century British Library Newspaper website.
Bathing machines, children as young as nine smoking and drinking, Vesta Tilley – London’s very [...]

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The JISC invites proposals to undertake a feasibility study on the potential for digitising and curation collections of cultural or social worth from the general public.
Funding of up to £30,000 (including VAT, travel and subsistence) is available for this study.  The work should start no later than the 1st June 2009 and be complete by [...]

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The JISC invites proposals for workshops to discuss current issues related to e-content and digitisation.
Funding of up to £8,000 (including VAT, travel and subsistence) is available for each workshop and it is anticipated that 11-15 workshops will be funded.  Workshops should take place between June and September 2009.
The deadline for proposals is 12 noon BST [...]

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The JISC Digitisation programme is pleased to announce that a new funding call will be issued at the beginning of March 2009.  The call will focus on three key themes.

Institutional Skills and Strategies – including activities aimed at embedding digitisation into institutional strategies and practices, eg development of institutional skills, policies and capacity to perform [...]

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