The Digitisation Workshop
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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.
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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