Brief Synopsis The JISC Image Digitisation Initiative (JIDI) created
archive quality digital images from a number of Higher Education
image
collections
throughout the UK. The selection criteria included scholarly importance
and copyright status.
The JIDI Collections
The JIDI Collections have been grouped into subject areas and include
Art and Design
Geology
Social History
Special Collections including the Design Council Archives and the Gertrude Bell Archive.
Project Objectives
The objectives of the JIDI project were to:
Create a substantial body of digitised archive images contributing to the
JISC's Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).
Contribute experiences to the knowledge base of the JISC's Technical
Advisory Service for Imaging (TASI), a major resource for UK Higher
Education.
Help create local areas of skill in image digitisation within
the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) taking part.
Image Delivery
The JIDI Images have been delivered to the UK HE community in
a number of ways.
Nine of the twelve collections involved are delivered by VADS,
the Visual Arts Data Service, part of the Arts and Humanities
Data
Service.
The delivery of the other collections is under consideration by
the JISC's Committee for Electronic
Information (CEI).
