JISC

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.

Objectives

The objectives of this study were to:

• 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 
• survey demand for digitised material and identify gaps in existing provision Develop a mechanism for identifying future digitisation priorities 
• review funding structures and opportunities and assess possible ways of funding priority areas 
• recommend standards and formats for future digitisation projects 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.

Read the report (PDF)