In August 2004, the JISC and CURL Digital Content Creation & Curation Task
Force issued an invitation to tender for a study of the current provision of
digitised collections for researchers in the UK higher education sector. The
objectives of this study were to:
1) Produce a high level survey of digitised material, both already available and
in the process of being created, held in UK research collections across all
disciplines
2) Survey demand for digitised material and identify gaps in existing provision
3) Develop a mechanism for identifying future digitisation priorities
4) Review funding structures and opportunities and assess possible ways of
funding priority areas
5) Recommend standards and formats for future digitisation projects
6) Provide an outline action plan for a national digitisation strategy for the UK
research community.
JISC and CURL commissioned a team of researchers from the Department of
Information Science at Loughborough University to carry out this survey. The
study was carried out between 1 November 2004 and 7 March 2005
