New Digitisation Report Calls for Cross-sectoral E-content Strategy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Press Release: New Digitisation Report Calls for Cross-sectoral E-content Strategy November 25, 2005

Press release announcing a new report issued jointly by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL). As the title suggests, the report calls for greater standardization and coordination of digitization efforts in britain, tied to research into user needs. The reasoning behind this call emerges about half way through the report: "the introduction of such a system would keep track of resources, aid discovery and prevent duplication... significant gaps in provision remain in many disciplines... (and) it will never be possible to digitise everything, so future developments must respond to researchers' needs." Well, maybe. More...