Interoperability Focus: Events

Think Digital: Best Practices for creation of Digital e-learning Resources (Introducing Technical Standards)

This one-day workshop is the first of three linked workshops providing straightforward guidance on 'Confident e-learning Creation'. It will be held in Dixons City Academy CLC (Minerva Centre), Bradford, Yorkshire on Monday 12th December 2005 and jointly facilitated by UKOLN, Yorkshire Museums Libraries and Archives (YMLAC) and the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and targeted at museum, library and archive staff.

Number of delegates: 20 - 40

Date

The event ran on Monday 12th December 2005 between 10am and 4pm. Lunch will be provided.

Location

Dixons City Academy CLC (Minerva Centre), Bradford, Yorkshire.

Booking

The event is free* to YMLAC members. Subject to availability, non-members can request a place at the event at a cost of £50 (they will be informed of their place 2 weeks prior to the event).

* YMLAC members who secure a place, but fail to attend the event with informing YMLAC before 28th October 2005, will be invoiced £50 to cover the costs incurred by YMLAC.

If you are interested in attending this event or have any queries regarding the event please contact:
Kathy Cremin
YMLAC e-learning Coordinator
Phone: 01274 549053
Email: Kathy@ymlac.org.uk.

Abstract

This interactive training day for museum, gallery, library and archive staff will explore the essential technical standards to consider to when planning, creating or commissioning digital resources. Whether you are developing an e-learning project or just wondering about the implications of starting, this workshop is a great opportunity to identify practical strategies for planning and delivering any e-learning project.

Participants can expect to gain:

Improved awareness of the tasks involved in the digitisation process e.g. skills and timescales required for digital tasks
greater understanding of digitisation standards e.g. what is metadata and why is it important? What is accessibility?
more insight into appropriate image sizes and formats and how to save your digital images
greater awareness of best practice through case studies of the challenges other digital projects have encountered and solved
more confidence about planning e-learning projects
opportunities to meet others producing e-learning and share ideas, questions and experiences

The format of the day will consist of presentations, break-out sessions, group work and discussions.

Facilitators

Alastair Dunning, AHDS
Marieke Guy, UKOLN

Vicky Mitchell, the Yorkshire Hub e-learning Manager, will also be involved in the Question and Answer session.

Programme

10:00 - 10:30	Registration and Coffee
10:30 - 10:40	Introduction to the day	MG
Session 1: Generic Overview
10:40 - 11:00	Presentation: Best Practices for Creation of Digital e-learning Resources	MG
11:00 - 11:30	Presentation: Real World Examples of Good Practice	MG
Session 2: Workshop Groups
11:30 - 12:20	Breakout groups: 'Real life issues' sessions Delegates will have the opportunity to think about the skills and timescales involved in digitisation as they apply to e-learning	Led by KC
12:20 - 12:30	Feedback from groups	All
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
Session 3: Focus on digitisation
1:30 - 2:00	Practical session: Opening and resaving images in different sizes and formats	AD
2:00 - 2:45	Presentation: What happens when you digitise	AD
2:45 - 3:00	Coffee
3:00 - 3:10	Presentation: Brief introduction to the Resources out there	MG
3:10 - 3:45	Question and Answer session	AD, MG, VM
3:45 - 4:00	Surgery session	All

Materials

Slides

Introduction to the Day: [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]
Best Practices for Digital Resources across the Cultural Heritage Sector: [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]
Real World Examples of Good Practice: [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]
Practical session: Opening and resaving images in different sizes and formats: [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]
What happens when you digitise: [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format] - not available - too many images
Brief introduction to the Resources out there: [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]

Exercises

Handouts

Particpants will receive a number of handouts including the following.

The Digitisation Process: an introduction to some key themes: AHDS Information Paper
The Digitisation Process: Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services
Documenting Digitisation Workflow: QA Focus briefing document no. 20
Choosing A Suitable Digital Rights Solution: QA Focus briefing document no. 22
Choosing An Appropriate Raster Image Format: QA Focus briefing document no. 28
Improving The Quality Of Digitised Images: QA Focus briefing document no. 66
Choosing A Suitable Digital Watermark: QA Focus briefing document no. 76

Annotations For Workshop

Wikalong: You can use the Wikalong page to provide your comments on this workshop.
Wikalong Extension For Firefox: If you are using the Firefox browser you can install the Wikalong sidebar.

URLs Mentioned During Workshop

The following URLs will be mentioned during the workshop.

Key Digitisation Resources

The Technical Advisory Service for Images: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS): http://ahds.ac.uk/
GPG - Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services Higher Education Digitisation Service: http://heds.herts.ac.uk/
QA Focus: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/

Digitisation Organisations

Visual Resources Association (VRA): http://vraweb.org/
The International Imaging Industry Association: http://www.i3a.org/
BAPLA- British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies: http://www.bapla.org/
Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation (MINERVA): http://www.minervaeurope.org
NINCH: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

JISC Services

The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC): http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/
Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS): http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
The UK Data Archive (UKDA): http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
EDINA: http://www.edina.ac.uk/
JISCinfoNet: http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/
JISCmail: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
JISC Legal Information Service: http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/
The Managing Agent and Advisory Service for Moving Pictures and Sound (MAAS): http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/maas/
Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS): http://www.mimas.ac.uk/
Netskills: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/
open source software advisory service (OSS Watch): http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/
Plagiarism Advisory Service: http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/
The Resource Discovery Network (RDN): http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
TechDis: http://www.techdis.ac.uk/
Techlearn: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techlearn_home.html
TechWatch: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_home
UKOLN: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Video Technology Advisory Service (VTAS): http://www.video.ja.net/

Web Standards

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): http://www.w3.org/
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): http://www.ietf.org/
ECMA International: http://www.ecma-international.org/
W3C CSS Validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Web site Checking

NetMechanic: http://www.netmechanic.com/
Doctor HTML: http://www.doctor-html.com/
Bobby: http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en
WAVE: http://wave.webaim.org/
W3C HTML Validation Service: http://validator.w3.org/
Link Popularity: http://www.linkpopularity.com/
Browser Emulator: http://www.dejavu.org/

Metadata

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://dublincore.org/
Art and Architecture Thesaurus: http://www.getty.edu/
MARC Standards: http://www.loc.gov/marc/
W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF): http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Open Archives Initiative (OAI): http://www.openarchives.org/
UKOLN Metadata pages: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
Metadata Encoding and Transmission standard (METS): http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

Intellectual Property Rights

The Copyright Licensing Agency: http://www.cla.co.uk
Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS): http://www.dacs.co.uk/
PADI - Intellectual property rights management: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/28.html
Creative Commons,: http://creativecommons.org/
Copyleft?: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Athens Access Management Systems: http://www.athens.ac.uk/
Information Commissioner's Office: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/

Preservation

Digital Curation Centre: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
Cedars (CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives): http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars
Digital Information Office: http://dio.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
Digital Preservation Project: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/digpres/
National Preservation Office (NPO): http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/npo.html
OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/

Public Sector Organisations

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA): http://www.mla.gov.uk/
Art Libraries Society: http://www.arlis.org.uk/
British Library: http://www.bl.uk/
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP): http://www.cilip.org.uk/
Museum Documentation Association (MDA): http://www.mda.org.uk/
Research Libraries Group (RLG): http://www.rlg.org/

Standards Organisations

Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE): http://www.cie.co.at/
International Standards Organisation (ISO): http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage
National Information Standards Organisation (NISO): http://www.niso.org/

Toolkits

TASI Toolbox: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/toolbox.html
QA Focus: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/toolkit/
Dublin Core: http://au.dublincore.org/tools/
RLG Tools for Digital Imaging: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=408
DCC Tools: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/tools/digital-curation-tools/
NEMLAC: http://www.nemlac.co.uk/nemlac/page.php3?375

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