Subject: AHDS WORKSHOP REPORTS
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:50:33 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011703b2175ea6007c@[207.223.177.184]> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:50:33 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: AHDS WORKSHOP REPORTS
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 4, 1998
MORE AHDS WORKSHOP FINAL REPORTS ON USER NEEDS AVAILABLE:
Performing Arts, Archeology and History Data Services
<http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/padsUserNeedsWorkshop1>
<http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/workshop/workshop2_report.html>
<http://hds.essex.ac.uk/reports/user_needs/final_report01.stm>
The Final Reports of three more user needs workshops conducted by service
providers of the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service are now available. We
announced the release of the draft reports earlier this year. A report on
all six workshops, giving an overview and recommendations will be available
later this year.
David Green
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PERFORMING ARTS DATA SERVICE
>Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:56:26 EDT
>Subject: PADS User Needs Workshop Report <fwd>
>From: Nbeagrie@aol.com
In March 1998 the Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) held a user needs
workshop in which a representative group of performing arts academics,
library and technical support staff met to discuss and identify user needs
for the exploitation of digital resources in music, film and TV, theatre and
dance.
The report which summarises the findings of this workshop is available
from http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/padsUserNeedsWorkshop1.
The group identified the need for:
* a greater number of high-quality resources
* awareness, training and support activities with a performing arts subject
focus
* allocation of time for users to experiment with new approaches to research
and teaching with digital resources
* research and development of performing arts-specific guidelines on
copyright and standards
* practical, detailed advice and support on digitisation projects, supplied
by a specialist agency.
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ARCHAEOLOGY DATA SERVICE
Dear all,
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) invited archaeologists from all sectors
of the discipline - contract units, government agencies, museums, national
bodies, site and monument records offices, and university departments - to
meet in York on the 27th of May 1998 to discuss user needs with respect to
digital data in archaeology.
The report is now available at the following URL:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/workshop/workshop2_report.html
This user needs workshop was the last in a series of six workshops
organised by the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the parent organisation
for the ADS. The workshop series was funded by the Committee on Awareness,
Liaison and Training (CALT) of the Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC).
If you have any comments or queries, please contact Frances Condron at the
address below.
Thank-you
Dr Frances Condron
Archaeology Data Service,
University of York,
King's Manor,
YORK YO1 2EP
email: fc6@york.ac.uk
phone: +44 1904 433 975
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HISTORY DATA SERVICE
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 06:31:53 EDT
Subject: HDS User Needs Workshop Report<fwd>
From: Nbeagrie@aol.com
Apologies for cross-posting
Scholarly Exploitation of Digital Resources: a Workshop for Historians
Workshop Report
In April 1998 the History Data Service (HDS) held a user needs workshop.
The report which summarises the findings of this workshop is now available
from http://hds.essex.ac.uk/reports/user_needs/final_report01.stm
A draft version of this report was widely circulated for review and comment
during June and July 1998.
The workshop was attended by a cross-section of actual and potential
end-users of digital resources, including both data creators and secondary
analysts of historical data. It was also attended by two other groups of
stakeholders: local and national library and computing support staff; and
representatives from historical organisations and funding bodies. The
participants met to explore, assess and prioritise the information, support
and training needs of end-users in the historical community and to evaluate
how and by whom these can be best addressed. In particular the group
identified the need for:
* recognition for the research and scholarship involved in the creation and
use of electronic resources in research and teaching, particularly in the
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA)
* sufficient resources and funding to provide historians with the means to
successfully integrate electronic resources in their research and teaching
* a programme of key dataset creation which would need to be directed and
funded by one or more central authorities
* agreed standards concerning project management, data design, data
documentation, data management, data preservation and data analysis, plus a
framework for standards development
* continued development of a consistent support hierarchy from national
through to local level to ensure the right support and guidance reaches the
user community
* appropriate and discipline-specific training aimed at historians and their
problems
* improved access to data, for example, online browsing, sub-setting,
combining and downloading facilities
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Executive Director
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Washington DC 20036
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