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

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Think Digital Best Practices for creation of
Digital e-learning Resources Introduction to the
Day Marieke Guy Interoperability Focus
UKOLN is supported by
www.bath.ac.uk
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A Brief Introduction to Us

• UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital
  information management
• Is based at the University of Bath
• Is funded by JISC and MLA
• Has a HE / FE and cultural heritage sector remit
• Has run numerous workshops (e.g. NOF-digi, the
  annual Institutional Web Management Workshop
  etc.)
• The Interoperability Focus Team
• The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
• Yorkshire Museums Libraries and Archives (YMLAC)

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About the Workshop

• This workshop aims to provide participants with
  the opportunity
• to
• 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

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The Resources

• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/e
  vents/ymlac-2005/

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Todays Programme

• Session 1 Generic Overview
• Presentation Best Practices for Digital
  Resources across the Cultural Heritage Sector
• Presentation Real World Examples of Good
  Practice
• Session 2 Workshop Groups
• Breakout groups Real life Issues
• Session 3 Focus on digitisation
• Practical session Opening and resaving images in
  different sizes and formats
• Presentation What happens when you digitise
• Presentation Brief introduction to the Resources
  out there

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So What about You?

• Who is from the
• Library Community?
• Museum Community?
• Archive Community?
• Who is at the start of a digitisation project?
• Who is currently working on a digitisation
  project?
• Who has completed a digitisation project?
• Who thinks their project is 100 standards
  compliant? ?
• What do you hope to gain from todays workshop?

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Any Questions?