Spreading the word at the Spring 2009 Ja-Sig Conference

The British Cartoon Archive Digitisation Project (BCAD) as well as Uportal was shared with colleagues across the pond at Spring 2009 Ja-Sig conference in Dallas in March. 

Bonnie Ferguson gave a talk Community Source Management/Governance Giving your goldfish a bigger bowl: the growth and sustainability of small Open Source projects within a University. 
Beyond excellent! Very impressed. [...]

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BCAD Architecture

The BCAD team recently gave a presentation on its website architecture, including a broad overview of the data handling systems and archive management set up.  The purpose was to demonstrate to interested parties and archives at the University of Kent and in particular those involved in the new JISC funded VERDI project.
The presentation was successful [...]

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BCA on YouTube

JISC have recently set up a JISCmedia page on YouTube, containing videos and showreels on a number of its key projects.
The British Cartoon Archive is amongst the list and has its own showreel currently online, which discusses the digitisation project and speaks to cartoonist Steve Bell, who recalls the genius of Carl Giles.
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Cambridge University visit

On 17 April 2008, courtesy of Naomi Boneham and Frank Bowles, two members of BCAD paid a visit to the Freeze Frame project at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. The Freeze Frame project is digitising over 20,000 photographic negatives and related documentary resources, covering the period from 1845 to 1960, to add [...]

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Cataloguing Structure

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We have just purchased Calm for our Cartoon centre project and are going to evaluate the XML Wrapper (XW) for use with our Cartoon archive website, with a view to purchasing it in the near future if it can meet our needs. As we understand it, the XW operates in a similar [...]

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