Access IT e-learning courses - overview of an educational offering dedicated for small memory institutions

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενοThe aim of the Access IT project is to help small memory institutions to develop their digital libraries and connect them with Europeana. In order to achieve this, two on-line educational courses were prepared: "Digital repositories for small memory institutions" and "Cooperation with Europeana". The educational content of these courses was designed to enable small memory institution to expose and promote digital form of their local cultural heritage as a part of the Europeana network. This presentation will provide an overview of Access IT courses background, their final structure and content and ways these courses can be used

How can the basic digitisation workflow look like?

This session will be dedicated to the digitisation workflow. We will describe all basic steps of the workflow from choosing the object to its publication in digital library. Each step may lead to certain pitfalls, during this session we will try to show some examples of common mistakes. Insome cases the most efficient solution is to outsource certain steps in digitisation workflow, we will discuss the role of outsourcing in the closing discussion. Digital content is vulnerable to various threats. Hardware is getting obsolete, software packages are no longer supported by its creators these things can cause that results of digitisation will no longer be useful in the future. We will discuss issues related to long term preservation of digital materials. Apart from traditional digitisation workflow we will also briefly cover the concept of born digital objects, as importance of this type of objects is constantly growing, we will discuss problems related to its long term preservation

How to promote digital library and its assets? (część 1.)

Session will start with description of basic concepts behind SEO. We will then discuss why is itnecessary to promote objects in the web and how to do it. What tools might be useful here?Possible role of websites like Wikipedia?In this session we will show how to monitor usage of digital library resources. Second part willbe dedicated to assessment of digital library usability and accessibility

Introduction to digitisation

In this session we will show some examples of digitisation projects to illustrate what benefits are associated with digitisation. We will discuss what can be a subject of digitisation for small memory institutions like public library or local museum. After this we will describe digital image anatomy. This will include concepts like digital image, file formats and compression types. Moreover we will briefly describe hardware and software which might be used to digitise various kinds of materials (this will be heavily based on current content of the "Digital repositories for small memory institutions" course). Case study showing what formats and software (especially OCR) is used in Poland for processing various types of materials. This session will be summarized with discussion about existing digitisation projects and possible justification for digitisation activities in small memory institutions

Summary report on ACCESS IT plus training

The first chapter contains list of all participants, trainers and organizers. Second chapter lists all sessions (with short abstracts of their content). Last chapters are summarizing feedback obtained from participants related to training content