Programme Manual Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Scope and style
• Format and updates
• Authors/credits
• Disclaimer
• Bibliography

Section 1: Managing Resources

Project Management

• Introduction
• Project definition and attributes
• Project life cycle
• Why planning is important
• Formal methods of project planning and software tools
• Planning tools and techniques
• Risk management
• Costing and budgets
• Monitoring and controlling
• Documentation and reports
• People and roles
• Steering groups, stakeholders and politics
• Financial Checks
• NOF consortia and partnerships

Human Resources

• Introduction
• Recruitment and selection
  • Job analysis
  • Job description templates
  • Person specification
  • Internal/external recruitment
  • Outsourcing
  • Staff retention
• Building successful teams
  • A definition
  • Roles within teams
• Staff development and training
  • Importance of staff development and training
  • Appraisals and performance reviews
  • The training and development process
  • Strategies for maximising job satisfaction
  • NOF Digitisation workshops
  • Other relevant training courses
• Health and safety
  • Duties of the employer/employee
  • VDU assessments
  • Workstation ergonomics

Section 2: Technical Aspects of Managing Digitisation Projects

nof-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines

What is meant by a migration strategy?

What is metadata?

Digital Preservation

• What is digital preservation?
• Technical strategies for ensuring digital materials are maintained and accessible over the long-term
  • Technology preservation
  • Technology emulation
  • Data migration
• Preservation metadata
• Getting started
  • Procedures to prepare data and documentation for storage and preservation

Procurement and tendering for nof-digi projects

• Introduction
• Is purchase necessary?
• Sharing costs - joint purchase
• Competition and the procurement process
• Formal or informal tendering?
• Specifications
  • Procurement aims/background
  • Statement of requirements
  • Selection process
• EU directives
• Informal tendering
• Locating suppliers
• Getting value for money
• Negotiation
• Contracts/supply agreements
• Checklist for procurement
  • Before procurement
  • Type of procurement
  • The specification
  • Communication with suppliers
  • Finalising the process
• Other useful information
  • Examples of calls for tenders
  • Report on the selection of designers

Creating Online Learning Materials

• Developing On line Learning Material
• Introduction
• Defining the learners and the outcomes
• Alternative applications of on line learning
• Development and usage issues
• Conclusion
• Planning On line Learning Material
• The Development Stages of a Project
• Learning design
• Developing a functional specification for learning materials
• Style
• Content
• Structure
• Target learners
• Purpose of a storyboard
• What is a storyboard?
• Guidelines for producing a storyboard
• Storyboards and user testing
• Designing On Line Learning Materials
• Screen Design
• Text Format
• Navigation
• Titles
• Use of graphics
• Multimedia mix
• Interactivity
• Trialling On Line Learning Materials
• The Functional Prototype
• Usability Trials
• Running a usability trial:
• Starting the observation
• Assess the experience of users
• Assess the motivation of users
• Ease of use
• Appropriateness of material
• Appropriateness of delivery style
• Assess the environment in which the usability trial takes place

Content Management Systems

The Digitisation Process

Geographical Information Systems

This link will take you to the Arts and Humanities Data Service's Guide to Good Practice on Geographical Information Systems. It gives an overview of the various spatial data types and offers advice on structuring, organising, maintaining and documenting GIS data, as well as providng useful bibliographic information.

Metadata Sharing and XML

• Abstract
• What is metadata?
• What is XML?
• Markup & markup languages : from documents to data
• Information sharing using XML
• The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Summary
• Some questions to consider
• Glossary
• Notes and references