The Digitisation Workshop

Our free Digitisation Workshops help organisations gain an understanding of the processes involved in starting a digitisation project from capture through to serving of the digitised content.

Our next workshop will be held on the 23rd April 2024.

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    In 2015 we held our first of many Digitisation workshops at our studio in Nuneaton. Our workshops consist of a number of talks on various aspects of digitisation including opportunities for discussion with our independent speakers to talk through how to plan and implement a successful digitisation project.

    The digitisation workshop is for the libraries, archives and museums sector with our main aim being to show you an end to end digitisation process from capture through to online serving of the digitised content. Included in the day will be a tour of our digitisation studios where you will be shown the different varieties of equipment we use and specialist methods. For this workshop we will be focusing on the 3D capture process, as well as original document restoration and preservation.

    As well as talks, discussion sessions have specifically been inserted into the agenda to give everyone attending the workshop a chance to air specific questions about their projects, both with the experts in the room and with each other. These will not be panel sessions, instead we will be spreading our speakers and experts throughout the room so that more people have a chance to converse about what interests them. There will also be lunch, tea breaks and time available after we conclude at 3:30pm to ask further questions.

    Very enjoyable day learning about different digitisation techniques. The talks were very informative and lunch was lovely.- Lorna McColl, University for the Creative Arts
    I also got a lot out of discussions with the other participants, since it widened my view and made me look at things from different angles.- Sian Mogridge, Hackney Archives

    The Presenters

    Geoff Laycock

    Digitisation.IO - Scan Data Experts

    Geoff Laycock is the director of the independent digitisation and information management consultancy firm Scan Data Experts.

    Geoff has been working in the museum and heritage sector for over 15 years designing and implementing a wide range of digitisation projects. Formerly the senior consultant for HEDS (the Higher Education Digitisation Service) Geoff has worked on many large scale digitisation projects including the Old Bailey Online, the Hansard Archive and the digitisation of the Design Museum Collection. Geoff is a specialist in digital imaging, project design and the use of metadata with database systems to deliver open access digital content online.

    Martin Devereux

    Digitisation.IO - Scan Data Experts

    Martin has worked in the Cultural Heritage sector for over 20 years. As a qualified archivist, Martin has experience of cataloguing and administrating historic collections, particularly business archives. Before joining Digitisation.IO, Martin was the The Postal Museum's Head of Digital, leading the development of its digital strategy, founding its digitisation studio, and supervising the development of the new museum's website and digital content in its galleries and online.

    Paul Negus

    Managing Director, Genus

    Paul has 25 years experience in the microfilm industry, presiding over The Microfilm Shop as it expanded into scanning equipment and digitisation services as the Genus Group. Paul has helped select the best of breed equipment ranges for the Genus Group, ranging through microfilm scanners, microfilm writers, document scanners, book scanners and high end capture devices. Through his experience of dealing with historic information on microfilm Paul understands the long term archiving requirements of organisations.

    Chris Elwell

    Production Manager, Genus

    Chris is General Manager of Genus and directly controls the Genus Digitisation Division. Chris has been with Genus for 21 years and has extensive knowledge and management of many book, plan, slide and microfilm scanning projects. Chris sets up every job that comes into Genus and manages every project through to completion.

    Andrew Austin

    Head of Digitisation Solutions, Genus

    Andrew previously worked at the British Library as the Imaging Services Manager. Andrew has many years of experience in digitisation and has worked on projects ranging from single items of great value through to bulk digitisation.

    Location

    The Workshops are held at our digitisation studio in Nuneaton:

    Genus, Hammond Close, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 6RY

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      What sort of material are you planning to digitise? (Please tick as many as you want.)

      What are you looking to achieve from your digitisation project? (Please tick as many as you want.)

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