As part of the BBC Academy and Arts Council England joint Building Digital Capacity programme, the SCA was very pleased to participate in its creative use of archive workshop. It focused on how to share existing archive content with an audience on a digital platform and explored new ways of engaging audiences with archive content.
The seminar, aimed at arts organisations and artists from across England, drew on a mixture of arts sector case studies and discussions about the many opportunities and issues associated with archive content.
Speakers included:
- Roly Keating, Director of Archive Content, BBC
- Andrew Nairne, Executive Director Arts, Arts Council England
- Dr Paul Gerhardt, Digital Archives Associate for Arts Council England, Archives for Creativity
- Professor Sarah Whatley, Professor of Dance, Coventry University
- Cassandra Carias, Senior Associate, Harbottle & Lewis LLP
- Naomi Korn, IP Consultant
- Siobhan Davis, Siobhan Davis Studios
Get a flavour of the day from the videos below, which feature interviews with the SCA’s Sarah Fahmy, Stuart Dempster and Naomi Korn as well as many of the other speakers and participants in the event.
Expert view: creative use of archive:
Seminar highlights:
IP tips for creating digital archives:
The Strategic Content Alliance is pleased to announce funding opportunites in the following areas:
JISC ITT Strategic Content Alliance: Digital Content Sustainability Syllabus Development
The JISC, on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) invites tenders to create a syllabus of open digital resources and related training courses. This syllabus is intended to foster the development of a new generation of “digital entrepreneurs” within institutions and organisations who can support the long term sustainability and exploitation of cultural, educational and not-for-profit digital content.
The deadline for tenders is 12 noon UK time on Monday 17 October 2011.
JISC ITT: Strategic Content Alliance: Digital Content and Host Institutions Support Strategies
The JISC, on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) invites tenders to research the techniques and strategies being deployed by grant-funded digital content project leaders (e.g. project managers, senior responsible owners, collection developers) in eliciting host institutional decision makers (e.g. Provosts, Vice Chancellors, ICT Heads) support for the long term (post grant) development and sustainability of cultural, educational and not-for-profit digital content.
The deadline for tenders is 12 noon UK time on Monday 10th October 2011.
The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was founded in the 1920’s but it remains largely inaccessible, held on film or videotape and indexed to serve the needs of programme-makers within the BBC.
Chronicle is a new project that explores how material from the BBC’s extensive archive of news coverage of Northern Ireland can be made available for use in further and higher education, combining digitised film and video with tools which can be used to search and tag coverage to be used in research or teaching.
Delivered through a partnership between the JISC-funded Strategic Content Alliance, the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) and the BBC, Chronicle is one of several initiatives from the Archive Development group at the BBC. Its goal is to explore ways in which researchers and teachers can be given access to material from the archive while in return delivering public value back in the form of improved data and information about its own collections for the BBC.
Chronicle will provide Authenticated Users with access to digitised copies of selected news material covering Northern Ireland and The Troubles, along with web-based tools allowing it to be searched, viewed and annotated.
Continue reading ‘News: Introducing Chronicle – BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 60s and 70s’