Archives South West Webinar
Lessons learned from family history digitisation
Wednesday 21 April 2021 10.00-12.00
Archives South West is an English regional collaboration of local authority funded services whose vision is to promote collections care and knowledge and to encourage public engagement with the South West’s rich and varied archival heritage.
In recent years, many local authority archive services have worked with family history publishers such as Ancestry and Findmypast to digitise, index and publish popular collections such as parish registers. The costs of the digitisation are met by the publisher whilst the archive service also receives a royalty.
As part of a project looking at the potential of newspaper digitisation, Archives South West have collated lessons learned from previous digitisation projects that used a licensing approach. This project was funded by The National Archives.
This webinar is aimed at local authority archives and library staff in the United Kingdom who are thinking about working with a family history publisher to digitise collections or are renegotiating current contracts.
The webinar will be facilitated by Janet Tall, Head of Archives, South West Heritage Trust, and Heather Forbes, Head of Archives Service, Gloucestershire Connty Council. Current speakers include:
– Kevin Bolton, independent consultant: lessons learned from the South West.
– Kim Collis, County Archivist, West Glamorgan Archives: the Welsh parish registers digitisation project.
– Larysa Bolton, Heritage Collections Manager, Manchester Central Library: the Greater Manchester Archives and Local Studies Partnership approach to family history digitisation.
There will also be an opportunity for questions and a general discussion.
The webinar is free, but priority will be given to Archives South West members and local authority archives and library staff in the United Kingdom.
The webinar will take place on Zoom, login details will be sent nearer to the event. To register, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-south-west-lessons-learned-from-family-history-digitisation-tickets-141261185007
For more information, contact Kevin Bolton at kevin@kevinjbolton.com
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