VINE: Volume 30 Issue 1

Digitisation and Electronic Copyright: an overview

Lynda LITC Agili

Digitisation, as it will be explored in this issue of VINE, can be defined as the creation of an electronic version of an item such as a text, photograph, slide, illustration…

Projects without pain: demystifying digitisation with the Higher Education Digitisation Service

Joanne Lomax Smith

Digitisation should not provoke fear. This paper looks at ways of making a digitisation project run smoothly and introduces the work of the Higher Education Digitisation Service…

Information in bits: approaches to digitised content

Andrew Colleran

This article presents some of the work carried out as part of the READINESS project. The research project, undertaken by the EARL Consortium and funded by the Library and…

Licensing digitisation

Edward CLA Barrow

In January 1998, CLA announced that it had the support of rightsholders' groups to develop licensing schemes for the digitisation of printed material. However, strict conditions…

Copyright and digitisation in UK HEIs

Leah Halliday

This paper is about copyright and digitisation as distinct from copyright in electronic publications. It focuses on Higher Education (HE) in the UK. It discusses the development…

Higher Education Resources ON demand — the HERON service

Lisa McRory

The demand for heavily used materials has led to Universities creating short loan collections and course readers — both have their problems, possibly soluble through digitisation…

Reading images

George Pitcher

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the digitisation of printed pages into editable and searchable computer readable texts. OCR software analyses patterns in an electronic…

Coming to fruition: Charles Booth's Inquiry 110 years on

Sue Donnelly, John Paschoud

In the late Nineteenth Century Charles Booth undertook a detailed survey of the living and working conditions of Londoners. Uniquely the original notes and data for the survey…

Traveling Culture: digitising special collections materials at the University of Iowa Libraries

Carol Ann Hughes, Richard Kolbet, Paul Soderdahl

In 1998 The University of Iowa Libraries was the recipient of a grant from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition in support of a project to…

Digitisation in European libraries

Rosalind Johnson

Throughout Europe, institutions in the cultural heritage sector (libraries, archives, museums and galleries) have been taking steps towards making available their collections in…