Organisations > higher education
The frameworks
- Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
- Communications and information technologies for the benefit of the UK Higher Education and Research communities.
- JISC services
- A guide to services: they include data services (see below), Gateways (see below), and many other facilities. Have a look and see where museums could provide content for these.
- JISC circulars (and other publications)
- Include calls for project proposals and announcement of successful projects to construct the DNER and its services. Useful guide to the R&D that's necessary.
- HEDS: the Higher Education Digitisation Service
- Advice, consultancy and production service for digitisation, for higher education, public libraries, museums, archives and other non-profit making organisations.
- Technology Watch debate
- Helping to plan for the future of further and higher education. Papers of wide relevance to the online. From JISC.
- Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
- UK national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities. Content includes archaeology, literature, history, visual and performing arts. Also lots of practical advice.
A few online research resources
- Digital Egypt
- Project jointly funded by JISC and the Designated Collections Challenge Fund, to make the collections of the Petrie Museum of Egyptology in UCL available for study. Amazing resource, with virtual landscapes, tomb plans, Roman encaustic paintings, besides the wonderful objects in the collections.
- The American Memory programme
- at the Library of Congress. Digitised primary sources for all levels of education. Also collections, lesson plans, explanations of how archivists deal with things, and an American Memory Fellows programme.
- The Valley of the Shadow
- Civil War archives online. A good example of a resource for researchers, from the University of Virginia
