Available Online » nof-digitise evidence strategy digitisation http://availableonline.wordpress.com Digitisation in the UK and beyond Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:08:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/178790047d3294dc515d7fd03e526784?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Available Online » nof-digitise evidence strategy digitisation http://availableonline.wordpress.com Evidence of the Impact of Early Digitisation? http://availableonline.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/evidence-of-the-impact-of-early-digitisation/ http://availableonline.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/evidence-of-the-impact-of-early-digitisation/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:14:20 +0000 Alastair Dunning http://availableonline.wordpress.com/?p=76 ]]>

Representatives from the UK funding bodies Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) which spoke at an event in spring 2008 which suggested there was not much enthusiasm from them for digitisation.

Two bloggers, Bridget MacKenzie and Jeremy Ottevanger produced some really interesting responses.

One of the rationales for the lack of appetite for digitisation is the supposed failure of the NOF-digitisation programme, which ran from 1999 to 2004.

But is there actually any formal evidence of this? And if there is, what mistakes could be learnt from it? Could there be a way that we could be running improved programmes for the cultural heritage sector, quite possibly for much lesser costs?

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