The document discusses perspectives on digitization from a funder. It provides examples of large-scale digitization projects in areas like newspapers, government documents, and books. Successful projects require engagement with users, clear educational benefits, strong management, and technical and intellectual quality reviews. Digitization creates free, high-quality online resources but requires ongoing funding to sustain them.

2. Jis, etcc network, services JISC is the UK Higher Education’s ICT body, providing Internet and email access for universities

3. http:// www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/10/business/11archive.chart.ready.html How much of the National Archives in Washington is digitised? Not very much. Approximately 1,800 years worth of work to go.

4. Google Books reckon there are 100m books to be digitised. Will they digitise them all?

5. The AHRC has funded numerous digitiasation projects http://web.me.com/xcia0069/ahrc.html

6. Philanthropic organisations include Arcadia and the Mellon Foundation, plus private donors. Publishers such as Gale-Cengage and ProQuest also have a significant role

7. JISC licences all kind of material for HE, including journals and resources such as Early English Books Online

9. digital resources are not free to run – they need to be sustained in the long term, both technically and intellectually the Electronic Ephemera collection has images from 18 th -20 th century. It was digitised at Oxford but is published by ProQuest, a commercial company http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/

10. build it and they will come? – Nope, users need to be actively engaged if they are to use a resource the Freeze Frame project went through every UK undergraduate course, identifying which would be interested in their collection of polar images – geology, geography, fashion, health and nutrition, history … http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/

11. Resources need to have an obvious educational impact , whether in teaching or research the Shakespeare Quartos website allows for different versions of Hamlet to be compared, http://quartos.org

13. Innovation means that you can have exciting projects that do new things the First World War Poetry Archive asked members of the public to digitise and comment on their own collections – the pool of content and expertise was hugely increased. Plus a whole trench recreated in Second Life http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ the PreRaphaelite resource is beautifully designed and the photographs are of a quality unsurpassed http:// www.preraphaelites.org /