Digital and online in the East Midlands

Naseby Audio-trail ProjectOnline Projects

www.LearnwithMuseums.org.uk is a website of free downloadable resources from museums that support all areas of teaching and learning for schools.

MuBu
MuBu is a region-wide digital programme that will celebrate the innovative audience engagement projects within East Midlands museums. For more information please see the MuBu page National Stone Centre - Learn with Museums

East Midlands Online Collections
To view the Digital collections from across East Midlands museums please view the Digital Collections Page Digital Resources

Digitisation is the process of converting information from a physical format into a digital one. There are two kinds of digitisation:

  • Image capture (e.g. using a camera, scanner or other capture device)
  • Information capture (e.g. scanning a document to create electronic text)

To see current digital collections from across the region please see the online collections page

Digitisation Guide The Simple Guide to Digitisation is an interactive document, click on any part of the contents page to move to a specific section. Click on the Digitisation Guide logo to return to the home page, all web links are live. The document includes information about; project scoping and planning, copyright, creating, managing and publishing digital content and preservation and sustainability, and much more. There is also a glossary and links to key web sources. All object images are part of online collections in the East Midlands online.

The Preservation and Sustainability Guidelines for Digital Assets in Museums is an interactive document, click on any part of the contents page to move to a specific section and all web links are live.

This document was created to assist small to medium size museums in the region in the management of their digital assets. Its aim is to provide simple and straightforward guidance, in an accessible format. It covers building in sustainability, and providing assistance in dealing with existing assets, which may date from past digitisation programmes.

e-commerce Guidelines - Please find opposite the Renaissance East Midlands five part guide to e-commerce for museums. They are designed to explain and guide museums through the world of e-commerce from creating a virtual museum shop to selling things on e-bay.

‘Virtually There’: Online Audience Research - is a report highlighting the results of a study commissioned by Renaissance East Midlands to understand audiences for online collection resources in the region. The report shows evidence of the motivations, expectations, needs and current levels of satisfaction of online audiences. There is also insight into why users are visiting our sites, how well resources are meeting their needs and how current and future resources could better meet their needs.

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From 1st October 2011, this site will not be updated, so please treat it as the static archive it is. This is because <a target="_Blank" href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/">Arts Council England</a> has now taken over museums and libraries responsibilities. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/">The National Archives</a> has assumed responsibility for strategic leadership of the Archives sector. Arts Council responsibilities will also now include the Renaissance programme, Museum Accreditation, and Library Development, together with cultural property services such as Export Licensing and the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The National Archives has assumed responsibility for providing strategic leadership to the archives sector and advising government on its development. The MLA is now winding down, with a skeleton staff remaining until May 2012 to complete the management of existing Renaissance contracts, complete outstanding financial and contractual arrangements and prepare for the appointment of a liquidator. This website will remain live until 31st March so that the public still has full access to the material on it – good practice case studies, toolkits, guidance and a range of other publications.  Continue reading

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    ‘Web 2.0” is just a name for how the internet looks nowadays. What makes today’s internet different from the internet in the past is the way people use it, and particularly the rise of social media tools.

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