Collections Trust MDO Briefing Day: JISC Digital Media

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A presentation given by Stephen Gray from JISC Digital Media at the Collections Trust Briefing Day for Museum Development Officers in London on 23 November 2009

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JISC Digital Media

Stephen GrayTechnical Support Officer

for Moving Images

info@jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk

JISC Digital Media

Who we are

• Formerly TASI

• JISC-funded service offering free advice on all aspects of ‘digital media’ to UK’s educational and cultural heritage sectors

JISC Digital Media

Who we are

Still Images

Audio

Video

Cross-media

JISC Digital Media

Who we are

Libraryscience

Media production & photography

Conservation & media archives

e-learning

JISC Digital Media

Services

What we do

Helpdesk service

info@jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk

• Free• Operates 5 days a week• We acknowledge queries within 1

working day and respond within 5• Warning: queries usually prompt a list of

further questions!

What we do

Workshops

• Digitising to archival standards (video, audio, images)

• Media production (video, audio, images)

• Developing and managing collections

• Metadata (video, audio, images)

• Copyright and IPR

What we doThe Website: Web 2.0 tools

• Sign up to mailing

list (500 users)

• RSS Newsfeed

• Twitter feed

• Community Blog

• Live ‘surgeries’

What we doThe Website: Advice documents

• Over 200 available

• Searchable by media type: image, video, audio or cross-media

• Or by lifecycle phase: creating, digitising, managing, finding & using

Colour Management for Still Images

Budgeting for a Digitisation Project

Guide to Image Editing Software

Setting up a Workspace for Digitising Images

Copyright and Digital Images

Audio Processing

Metadata and Audio Resources

Planning a Video Digitisation Project

Digitisation Staff Training

What we doThe Website: Advice documents

What we do

Consultancy

• Assisting with funding applications

• Advising on long-term media preservation

• Helping with collection development

• Developing institutional policy

• Research relating to digital media

Why do museum folk use

JISC Digital Media?

Museum case study

Theatre Collection

An accredited museum and research centre dedicated to the study of

British theatre history.

Museum case study Theatre Collection

• MLA-funded project• Dual aims: access and

preservation• Collection: 19th century

theatre-related photographs, magic lantern slides, textured drawings, glass plates

Museum case study Theatre Collection

• Advised on initial project structure

• Provided training in scanning techniques

• Offered best practice in handling fragile original materials

Museum case study Theatre Collection

• Set up scanning workflow• Set up metadata workflow• Advised on digital asset

management system• Suggested ways to

maximise accessibility and usefulness of new online image collection

In conclusion

• We are a standards-based organisation• We are a free-to-use advisory service• We can help with

– meeting technical challenges– project management advice– creating, managing, using and preserving digital

media

www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk

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