Open Educational Resources

The Higher Education Academy and JISC have been working in partnership to support the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources programme. This InfoKit offers an overview on Open Educations Resources (OERs) and the issues surrounding them. It explores management, legal and technical issues you will need to consider when planning to make your educational resources openly available. It is aimed at senior …

Video Identification and Assessment Guide

Museum staff are increasingly faced with the identification, care, and conservation of videotape formats found in their collections and archives, some of which are many decades old. Staff must inspect the works to assess condition – often without the use of playback equipment – and catch problems before they compromise the works. Videotape has particular storage, housing, and handling needs …

ISAAC: Integrated e-Services for advanced access to heritage in cultural tourist destinations

Contents: Home About ISAAC Partners Reports and Publications Links Contact Info. In het ISAAC project (FP6-IST 2006-035130) is een nieuwe ICT omgeving ontwikkeld om digitaal cultureel erfgoed in te zetten voor stadsmarketing en culturele toeristen beter van dienst te zijn. Een geïntegreerde e-service, met toepassingen voor mobiele apparaten, zorgt voor virtuele toegang tot complexe multimediale culturele erfgoedobjecten. Nederlandse projectpartners: Afdeling …

NFSA Journal vol. 1

The main focus is the intellectual nature of curatorship and its principal manifestations in the audiovisual world. Among the reference points for the views outlined below are: the FIAF Code of Ethics, the UNESCO Recommendation on the preservation of moving images (1985), the General Guidelines of UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ project, the codes of ethics and definitions of organisations such as FIAF, IFLA, ICA, ICOM, the Code of Ethics of the …

EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art

EAI’s Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art addresses key issues and brings together information on current practices and critical dialogue relating to single-channel video, computer-based art and media installation. The Preservation section was created by IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation), a nonprofit resource for preserving electronic media. The Guide features a range of essential information: Best …