Digitisation

Resources for Digitisation

This page contains links to the technical guidelines for digitisation that were created by the team at An Chomhairle Leabharlanna and the participating institutions during the first phase of the Cultural Heritage Project.

Pilot Projects

The first phase of Cultural Heritage Project supported five pilot projects in the digitisation of particular types of media (newspapers, 3D material, maps, etc.). Download the PDF versions of the Final Reports for a step-by-step documentary on each project's progress in the digitisation of the different media.

Joint UK - Ireland Digitisation Workshop

In May 2008, a workshop was held at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum.  The workshop was organised by An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council), MLA and the National Museum of Ireland, with funding provided by Minerva EC, the Department of Environmenet, Heritage and Local Government and the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism.

Presentations were given by David Dawson (MLA), Clifford Harkness (National Museum Northern Ireland), Ciaran Mangan (Meath County Library), Beth Porter (South Eastern Education & Library Board), Dr. Paul Ell (Queen's University, Belfast), Joan Ward (An Chomhairle Leabharlanna), Aly Conteh (The British Library) and Frances Boyle (Digital Preservation Coalition).  The workshop report and presentations can be downloaded here.