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