http://thatcampcanberra.org/2010/08/27/ersatz-digitisation/ The Humanities And Technology unconference, 28–29 August 2010, University of Canberra Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thatcampcanberra.org/2010/08/27/ersatz-digitisation/comment-page-1/#comment-57 S_Russell Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:43:57 +0000 http://thatcampcanberra.org/?p=353#comment-57 This is the way I produce primary research material in a form that doesn't require me to be in Canberra. It is covered by a large bundle of access agreements that cover my rights to use it. This is the way I produce primary research material in a form that doesn’t require me to be in Canberra. It is covered by a large bundle of access agreements that cover my rights to use it.

]]> http://thatcampcanberra.org/2010/08/27/ersatz-digitisation/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Lise Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:18:43 +0000 http://thatcampcanberra.org/?p=353#comment-54 It's late, and I've been on a plane for several hours, but this looks a bit like something that I touched on in the Crowdsourcing the catalogue proposal. Allowing researchers to load up information about records and data sets, including images. This (I think) gets round the citability problem identified by Tim, and also means that the images don't need to be complete. It's what someone has found that is meaningful to them, and which may be meaningful to others, or which can act as a sample of the contents of a record. It’s late, and I’ve been on a plane for several hours, but this looks a bit like something that I touched on in the Crowdsourcing the catalogue proposal. Allowing researchers to load up information about records and data sets, including images. This (I think) gets round the citability problem identified by Tim, and also means that the images don’t need to be complete. It’s what someone has found that is meaningful to them, and which may be meaningful to others, or which can act as a sample of the contents of a record.

]]> http://thatcampcanberra.org/2010/08/27/ersatz-digitisation/comment-page-1/#comment-50 wragge Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:47:02 +0000 http://thatcampcanberra.org/?p=353#comment-50 It also raises the thorny question of the citability of items in collection dbs. How can people publishing their own digitised copies of resources easily create links back to their original context? It also raises the thorny question of the citability of items in collection dbs. How can people publishing their own digitised copies of resources easily create links back to their original context?

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