Message-Id: <199902171701.KAA36306@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:56:57 EST5EDT From: Marlene Gordon <mailto:MGORDON@AB-F1.UMD.UMICH.EDU> Subject: Glasgow Digitisation Summer School '99 To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
The following posting is forwarded from the CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) listserver, please forgive any duplicate messages that you may receive.Marlene Gordon
Dear Colleagues,
Following the great success of the 1998 Glasgow Digitisation Summer School, The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow is pleased to announce the second annual international Digitisation Summer School, 4 - 9 July 1999.
Full information and course details can be found on the HATII web pages at: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS99/
The availability of high-quality digital content is central to improved public access, teaching, and research about heritage information. Archivists, librarians, and museum professionals are among the many groups that are increasingly involved in creating digital resources to improve access and understanding to their collections. Skills in understanding the principles and best practice in the digitisation of primary textual and image resources have broad value. Participants in the course will examine the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage materials, as well as investigate issues involved in creating, curating, and managing access to such collections. The lectures will be supplemented by seminars and practical exercises. In these, participants will apply the practical skills they acquire to the digitisation of an analogue collection which they have selected (print, image e.g. photographic or slide, music manuscripts, or map). The focus will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available in digital form.
The one-week intensive course will consist of lectures, seminars, lab-based practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an opportunity for individual skill development), and visits to the Glasgow University Library and Archive collections. (A full programme can be found at our website.)
Places are limited on the course, so please register early to confirm a place.
COSTS, REGISTRATION, AND DEADLINES
Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea breaks, not including accomdation):
- Advanced booking discounted price before 30 April 1999: 550 pounds sterling.
- Normal price: 600 pounds sterling (applies after 1 May 1999)
- Student price: 400 pounds sterling
Please use the web page to register online at: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS99/
or contact:
Mrs Ann Law, Secretary, HATII Institute, University of Glasgow 2 University Gardens GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK
Tel. and Fax: (+44 141) 330 5512 Email: mailto:a.law@arts.gla.ac.uk
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