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Growing the digital organisation: February 2011
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Entering the IT jungle. I had the opportunity last night to attend a meeting of the Data Management Specialist Group of BCS, the Chartered Insitute for IT. I wish my classmates had been there because my learning outcome from this experience was special indeed. An Evening of Metadata. So, was a semester of metadata a total waste of time?
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Growing the digital organisation: March 2012
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Thursday, March 1, 2012. Tron" as metaphor for the digital library. The invention of printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of letters is no great matter." All the talk of the 'brave new world' of digital is nostaligic hyperbole that only serves to miss the point that it's all just information. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Wellcome Digital Library: August 2012
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Monday, August 13, 2012. Half a million milestone. We have recently completed processing half a million images in our workflow system (Goobi) ahead of making our new website available to the public later on this year. These images are the product of on-site digitisation of our archives and genetics book collections for the WDL pilot programme. In previous posts on this blog we have talked about our storage system. Our digital asset management system. And our image " player. This workflow allows us to ing...
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Wellcome Digital Library: November 2011
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Monday, November 28, 2011. Guest blog post: Digitising early printed books at the Wellcome Library. Karine Larose and Jeremy Uhl are working on the Early European Books digitisation project. At the Wellcome Library. They are empolyees of Diadeis, a digitisation company based in France, and work on site alongside the rest of the Wellcome's digitisation team. In this guest post, Karine and Jeremy explain what they do here at the Wellcome Library:. Hello, Karine and Jeremy here from Diadeis. Our most common...
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Growing the digital organisation: August 2012
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Friday, August 31, 2012. The universal pressures of the digital economy. The thing about the digital economy is that it's all-pervasive. It taps directly into consumer behaviour and has basically smashed the traditional barriers that existed between different industries. This morning I heard Kim Winser. Interviewed as the Friday Boss on Radio 4's Today. They need to ...
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Growing the digital organisation: November 2011
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Thursday, November 10, 2011. Vocational training for Digital Curation? The question of training is a big one that lingers around the edges of my own research and yesterday I attended a focus group to support a survey being conducted by the EC-funded project Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe. So what does vocational training for digital curation mean exactly?
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Growing the digital organisation: Thesis available for download
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Thesis available for download. I recently handed in my thesis on the current and future state of digital collections in UK research libraries; I'm now putting it up here for everyone to access. My thanks again to everyone who contributed! December 3, 2012 at 11:22 PM. December 17, 2012 at 5:39 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). JPEG 200...
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Growing the digital organisation: July 2012
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Monday, July 16, 2012. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's responded to the survey. If you haven't yet filled out the survey and would like to, you can find it here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Help Save the British Records Association. Fibre to the home UK - Fibrevolution. How to overbuild your infrastructure.
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Growing the digital organisation: October 2012
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. The 'born-digital' state of mind. Right now, the conversation in libraries is all about digitisation. The latter point is more subtle, because it's all in the mind, but if you digitise an old book and look to create an offering that allows you to turn the pages (just like a real book! Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Thesis available for download.
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Growing the digital organisation: June 2011
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Growing the digital organisation. Discussing the role of innovation vs. adaptation, established models vs. new in the digital public space. Thursday, June 2, 2011. Should librarians still be running libraries? This is a provisional title question for my thesis. It could easily be "Should archivists still be running archives? Or "Should museum curators still be running museums? Should those roles be expanded upon, altered or relegated to sit alongside digital curators, digital librarians and the like?
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