Overview of content related to 'digitisation'

EThOS: from Project to Service

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Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.

EThOS [1] (Electronic Theses Online Service) opened up access to UK doctoral theses in January 2009. It is a service by and for the research community. Although EThOS is still in beta version, it is already changing the way theses are accessed and is helping to raise the visibility of UK research.

IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

editor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society

editor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009.

Book Review: Making Digital Cultures - Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity

editor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging and thought-provoking.

This book is about cultural continuity and change. It focuses on the debates about the impact of 'new technology' and 'the digital age' on the shaping of cultural spaces, the discourses between 'producers' and 'consumers' and the changing fabric of modern institutions. The effects of various digitisation endeavours on institutional identities and practices and on individual behaviours are analysed in order to demonstrate how digital technologies are 'enfolded into the fabric of specific institutional and broader cultural environments.'