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Session Title or subtitle…EU Screen Conference17th September 2011

Catherine Grout: JISC Director e-Content

JISC – national organisation in UK that provides services and funds innovation programmes for universities, further education and research

Strategic Content Alliance – is a cross public sector programme involving, education, national libraries, science, broadcast, arts and culture funders etc. (to design and deliver a strategy for e-content)

(JISC, BL, BBC, Wellcome Trust, Arts Council)

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Who we are

Knowledge Is…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMLf5mpifNc

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The Challenge

JISC Film and Sound Think Tankhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/filmandsound.aspx

Final Report and all outputshttp://filmandsoundthinktank.jisc.ac.uk/

Why?

We have lots of the pieces (infrastructure, content, innovation)

Education can’t work on its own: partnership – education, broadcast, archives

Press pause and visit the issues

What did we find?

We need to use each others platforms… archives need the educational window.. education needs broadcast… it’s a symbiotic system (who leads)

Students may push ahead of educators (meeting student expectations big issue)

Practical barriers remain (IPR, tools, academic practice… citation etc.)

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The Think Tank

Depends on your perspective

- National

- Regional

- Institutional (university, library, museum, archive)

- Collection

What needs to happen

- Still exists

- People are using it

- Covers its own costs

- Makes money

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What is Sustainability?

Digital Content Boom!

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Digital Content Bust?

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JISC-Ithaka work

- Very little previous research on web at the time looking at this issue

- Started with Detailed case studies “under the bonnet” of digital content collections

- Identified some good examples

- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/content/contentalliance/reports/businessmodelling.aspx (Strategic Content Alliance: briefing papers)

- Looking at funders and government approachesGet people together to discuss results

- Next is deep dive (what happens in a single institution – how decisions are made etc.)

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Strategic Content Alliance: Research into the Issue

Some Potential Models

A: Centralised Investment/loans - sustained by a variety of income streams

B: Private sector investment in public content (eg in individual or shared library Collections/Services)

C: Crowd sourcing/community generated collections

D: Internal resource redeployment (potentially supported by national shared services)

E: Consortial action: (pooling resources/Shared Services/Centres of Expertise)

A: Public Investment

Example: The French government have invested in the digitisation of the INA archive (France’s audio visual heritage – equivalent in some respects to BBC archive - 60 years of TV & 70 years of radio: with over 3 million hours of TV & radio.. www.ina.fr 100% of content online by 2015)

Advantages: Mass digitisation achieved within relatively short time scale. Once content in place can be exploited in a variety of ways. Sustainability options greater given amount that exists.

Disadvantages: Central funding hard to make the case for in the current economic climate. Many demands upon the public purse across the UK and harder to make the case for what should be prioritised.

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B: Private Investment in Public Content

Example: Hathi Trust: (http://www.hathitrust.org/)

 To date the collections comprise - 6,250,748 total volumes ; 3,663,969 book titles; 147,527 serial titles. Members are from a variety of University Libraries (many of them in California) and also including the New York Public Library. Commercial partners include Google, and Kirtas (commercial book digitisation vendor).

Advantages: one way of unlocking public content, can be flexible and licensing terms and conditions can be negotiated to allow free at the point of use access to be maintained.

Disadvantages: Access terms may be restricted and not open. It can be difficult to make the right kind of offer to the commercial sector in order to make an investment worthwhile. Specialised research content may not be so attractive as it does not have mass market appeal and it may be more difficult to generate revenue.

C: Crowd Sourcing/Community Collections

Galaxy Zoo (www.galaxyzoo.org). 250,000 people so far have taken part in classifying galaxies. Within 24 hours of launch, the site was receiving 70,000 classifications an hour, and more than 50 million classifications were received by the project during its first year, from almost 150,000 people.

Oxford University Anglo Saxon Archive http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/06/oxford-university-anglo-saxon-archive The university is asking members of the public to upload any stories, poems, writing, art or songs they have composed or heard that relate to Old English and the Anglo-Saxons to Project Woruldhord (Old English for "world-hoard").

This builds on the success of the Great War Archive (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/) and is part of the Run co co project which is looking at the best way of using crowd sourcing to develop existing or build new collections. http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/

C: Crowd Sourcing/Community Collections

Advantages: engages users directly and creates a sense of ownership and interest in collections. Fulfills social mission of universities and other organisations; can generate a great deal of content very quickly with very modest investment. Can also have its own sustainability model at low cost

Disadvantages: will need specialist staff time and effort from official collections to get off the ground and to mediate the content; will potentially need ongoing effort and investment to sustain; may not achieve mass digitisation to scale but hard to say until more experimentation into the potential of this model has been achieved.

D: Internal resource redeployment

This is looking at the day to day business of content rich institutions who would in theory like to be able to offer a much greater percentage of their resources online and have a more compelling online presence.

In theory a greater shift to the digital would involve re-directing staff activity and budgets away from some activities, for example support for physical collections and/or investment in physical collections towards investment in the creation or procurement of digital collections.

Where has this (actually) taken place??....

In theory this could be more viable if there are more centrally shared services to support the library eg collections management, cataloguing, archiving and preservation etc.

D: Internal resource redeployment

Advantages: could be achieved at a modest or low cost. Could offer opportunities for new income streams. Could enable institutions to remain head of the game in this new era

Disadvantages: what stops to enable this to happen? Problematic to identify business case internally and to shift cultures and mindsets

Might be easier as part of a consortial approach rather than going it alone

E: Collaborative

Could be: Consortial action/pooling resources/Shared Services

Example: JISC Digitisation Programme. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation.aspx

Helps to develop skills, infrastructure and expertise as well as content which then become shared resources and help to boost the overall capabilities of our sector in the shift to the digital

JISC also provides centralised content related services…. Licensing, resource discovery, delivery, advice etc. to support this mutual endeavour

Advantages: whole is greater than sum of parts, economies of scale, sharing of good practice, up-skilling (as well as content)

Disadvantages: ongoing business case can be more difficult to identify in current economic climate (prob others?)

Film and Sound Archive Challenges

Top Three Challenges:

1. Integrating access

2. User engagement

3. Partnership and pooling resources and expertise

Film and Sound Archive Challenges

Top Three Challenges:

1. Integrating access

2. User engagement

3. Partnership and pooling resources and expertise

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The Films

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TfCSe3z7zg&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgY6nHCbu8&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx4Xj9zoq1M&feature=player_embedded