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This course will examine the advantages of developing digital collections in the arts, humanities and wider cultural heritage sector, and issues involved in creating, curating and managing such digital collections. Students will apply the practical skills they acquire to the digitisations of an analogue collection.

1x2hr lecture; 1x2hr practical computer labs per week over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus. This is one of the Honours options in Information Studies and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus.

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into Digital Media and Information Studies, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation.

ARTMED4001 2D Digitisation: Theory & Practice

INFOSTUD4002 2D Digitisation: Theory & Practice

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The standard assessments for this course are: 

■ Examination (120 minutes) - 40% 

■ Project consisting of Digitised Resources (images and metadata)- 30%  

■ Project Report (3,000 words) - 30% 

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available: 

■ There are no alternatives to the exam, but extra time can be offered as reasonable adjustment.

■ There are no alternatives to the project and report, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.  

This course aims to:

■ apply the theoretical principles of digitisation of primary textual and image resources to practical application

■ evaluate the use and availability of high-quality digital content, central to research and teaching developments in the arts and humanities and cultural heritage sector

■ examine the advantages of developing digital collections in the arts and humanities and issues involved in creating, curating, and managing access to such collections.

■ apply the practical skills acquired to the digitisation of an analogue (print, music manuscripts, or map) collection selected from university collections

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ use the theoretical principles of digitisation of primary image and text resources within a practical scenario

■ select materials for digitisation and provide sound justifications for their decisions

■ define the standards to be used depending upon the type of documentary or image material with which they are working and the objectives of a particular digitisation initiative

■ appreciate the role and types of metadata used to assure the long term reusability of digital materials;

■ determine the wider costs of digitisation projects

■ recognize the role of the user in these processes