New Directions in Digitization Workshop

Wed, 26 Oct 11 14:43:00

An event to discuss new developments in digitization will be held at the National Library of Wales on Friday 28 October 2011.The event will present findings from a number of recent projects with a special focus on Welsh and other Celtic digitization projects.
‘New Directions in Digitization’ is co-hosted by the Centre for e-Research, King’s College, London, the National Library of Wales and funded by JISC.

See below for a timetable of the day.

Links:
Centre for e-Research, King’s College www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/index.aspx 
JISC www.jisc.ac.uk
Prof Lorna Hughes: www.wales.ac.uk/en/CentreforAdvancedWelshCelticStudies/StaffPages/LornaHughes.aspx

 

The Day's Schedule

10:00 Coffee

10:30 Welcome and introductions

10:35 Mark Hedges, King’s College, London: The Centre for e-Research at King’s College, London

10:45: Andrew Prescott, King’s College, London: Electronic Beowulf 3.0

11:15 Paul Ell, Queen’s University, Belfast: CDDA: Digitization and Celtic Studies

11:45 Lorna Hughes, National Library of Wales: Value, use and impact of digital collections: the
SPHERE project

12:15 Discussion

12:45 Lunch

13:45 Alan Hughes, National Library of Wales: Digitization at the National Library of Wales: case studies and lessons learned

14:15 Mike Bryant, King’s College, London: The Ocropodium Project

14:45 Rheinallt Foster-Jones, People’s Collection, Wales: Innovation in Community Digitization

15:15 Tom Pert, RCAHMW: Putting pictures in their place: Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales digitization projects

15:45 Discussion

16:15 Tea and depart

To register: If you wish to attend this workshop, please send e-mail to lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk.
Places are limited, and prior registration is essential.

For further information and if you wish to attend this workshop, contact:

Lorna Hughes, UoW Chair in Digitisation: 
lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk 01970 632800