an overview of projects and processes
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
An Overview of Projects and Processes
Higher Education Digitisation Service
Joanne Lomax Smith
http://heds.herts.ac.uk
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What is HEDS?
Established 1996 Centralised service Funded centrally by HE and FE Clients are not just education sector
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The Service
Free First Response Email or telephone No cost or commitment
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Production Services
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
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Consultancy Services
Whole digitisation project life-cycle Business processes Project planning Technical standards and workflow
Developing Funding Applications Ongoing project support
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The HEDS Team
Service Director - UH’s Director of Library & Information Services
Service Manager Two Consultants Business Administrator
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Recent Projects
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
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Projects in Detail
Shetland Museum Remote location Fragile collection HEDS Feasibility Study
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Using HEDS - University of Oxford
Consultancy ODLS
Business planning
Refugee Studies Centre grey literature collection Feasibility and pilot Production advice on portal development
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Using HEDS - University of Oxford
Production Academic manuscript Examination Papers
Support Funding applications - NOF, RSLP, AHRB,
Andrew W Mellon Foundation
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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
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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
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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
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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
An Overview of Projects and Processes
Higher Education Digitisation Service
Joanne Lomax Smith
http://heds.herts.ac.uk