JISC Digital Media continues providing the world with helpful information: they have recently updated their advice document, Finding Video, Audio and Images Online. Lots of good information here about Web site databases and online collections, search tips, search engines, automatic alerts, etc. Their first piece of advice is to be clear about what you want from your search, and they've embedded this video from an adorable short film about actual requests at the Hulton Archive for images that could never exist. I think most of us who work with image collections recognize this challenge!
JISC Digital Media is the UK service that provides advice, guidance and training to the UK's Further and Higher Education community. Fortunately for those of us across the pond and elsewhere, they freely share their advice documents online. They are divided into advice on still images, moving images, audio, and cross-media. Each of these areas contains dozens of advice documents, organized into easy to navigate sections, with information about file formats, software, hardware, managing digitization (er, digitisation) projects, managing digital resources, and finding digital resources. There is a wealth of information here. Thank you, JISC!
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