Current Projects Evaluation of a Digital Transcription of English Parochial Registers East London Theatre Archive Creating an invaluable database, helping to address the lack of digital resources available in the performing arts sector East London Theatre Archive project WoCRIG Support Project for the Common Repository Interfaces Working Group (CRIG) WoCRIG project Sherpa DP2 Extending the collaborative, shared preservation environment developed by the Sherpa DP project MetaTools Investigating Metadata Generation Tools SOAPI Service-Oriented Architecture for Preservation and Ingest of digital objects InSPECT Understanding the concept of 'significant properties' in relation to preserving digital objects Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery Creation and maintenance of high quality resource discovery metadata Development of a Supplier Training Scheme Developing a course and set of training materials for potential digitisers of cultural heritage in the north east Shibboleth Early Adopter Programme The project is concerned with the implementation of a Shibboleth-based registration system Submarines in Classical Art The project is concerned with the use, within the visual arts, of advanced imaging ICT developed in certain medical and military arenas Sherpa DP Creating a collaborative, shared preservation environment for the SHERPA project DAAT: Digital Asset Assessment Tool Devloping a digital preservation assessment tool OASIS: Online AccesS to the Index of archaeological investigationS, (link to ADS site) Providing an online index to archaeological grey literature Big Data: Preservation and Management Strategies for Exceptionally Large Data Formats (link to ADS site) Investigating issues in managing large data files in archaeology Making the LEAP: linking electronic archives and publications (link to ADS site) Investigating ways that electronic publication can provide broader access to research findings
Past Projects - Completed 2007 Online Historical Population Reports Project A complete collection of British Historical Population Reports
Past Projects - Completed 2006 Stormont Papers Digitising Northern Irish Parliamentary Papers, from 1921 to 1972
'Digital Images Archiving Study' and 'Moving Pictures and Sound Archiving Study' How moving images and sound, and digital images are being preserved
E-science scoping study Reviewing current uses of e-science in the arts and humanities
AHDS Projects and Method Database (extension) Creating online resource of humanities computing projects and methods
Past Projects - Completed 2005 The Digital Picture (external link) Survey of the effect of digital images in arts education JISC Repositories Review A broad review of the state of digital repositories Sherpa / E-Prints A feasibility study on the preservation of e-prints. JISC Collection Exemplars How digital resource collections might be embedded in teaching or research. ARENA: Archaeological Records of Europe Network Access Project Making selected European archaeological archives available online The National Fine Art Education Digital Collection (external link) Digitising work from UK art schools PICTIVA Online tools and teaching and learning collections for images
Past Projects - Completed 2004 AHDS Subject Extension Feasibility Study AHDS extentsion into Classics, Ancient History, Religious Studies, Theology, Philosophy and Law NOF Technical Advisory Service (external link) Advice service for 152 digitisation projects funded under the New Opportunities Fund. An Investigation into Free E-Books Investigation into the possible uses, users, and usability of free e-books QA Focus (external link) Briefing papers in Quality Assessment for JISC's Information Environment programme. AHDS Projects and Method Database (prototype) Prototype database listing methodooogies used by digitisation projects
Past Projects - Completed 2003 POSSE: Preserve Our Student Shows for Eternity Preserving art school student degree shows. Developing the CHCC Developing the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data into a major learning and teaching resource. Reformatting the Parish Register Aggregate Analyses, 1662-1811; 404 Data Improving the quality of parts the Population History of England and Wales, 1538-1838 dataset. PATOIS: Publications and Archives in Teaching: Online Information Sources Online teaching and learning materials for archaeology. Making IT happen: Proving the Common Information Environment (external link) Developing a geospatial demonstrator for the JISC Common Information Environment group FAIR / Hybrid Archives Sharing delivering and preservation of resources amongst different institutions PIXUS: The Image Portal Delivering image collections from different sources geoXwalk Development of gazetteer to support on-line geographic searching and assist in the geographic indexing of information resources. Go-Geo Allowing for the discovery of geographic data and related resources Top |