new strategies for digital content
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A presentation from the JISC conference New Strategies for Digital Content, 18 March 2011, LondonBy Paola Marchionnihttp://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/12/09TRANSCRIPT
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New Strategies for Digital Content
18 March 2011 – London
Alastair Dunning [email protected] @alastairdunning
Paola Marchionni [email protected] @paolamarchionni
#digi11
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New Strategies for Digital Content – 18 March 2011
Paola Marchionni – JISC Digitisation Programme Manager
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A step back
2004-2009 JISC Digitisation programme and Enriching Digital Resources programme
£24m - 47 projects
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Digital Content Boom!
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Digital Content Bust?
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Making the most of what we have
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Challenges
Challenges– Not just creating new digitised content but also:
• Sustainability: developing appropriate strategies, skills and business models for embedding and sustaining content in effective ways
• Breaking down silos of content and joining up content
• Placing the user centre-stage
– Cardiff conference 2007- http://bit.ly/i2CDi0
– JISC Digital Content Conference 2009 - http://bit.ly/h70fAz
– Digital Content Task Force 2010 - http://bit.ly/efvxcG
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Questions 1/2
Some questions
How can digitisation activities be embedded in institutional practices?
How do we ensure institutions approach digitisation strategically and not on a project-basis?
How can experience and skills be retained and cascaded within institutions and the community?
What kind of partnerships do we need?
What kind of business models and services are effective for sustainability?
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Questions 2/2
Some questions
How do we work more effectively with users?
How can we enhance currently available digitised resources?
How do we bring complementary resources together?
How do we best embed existing resources into teaching and learning?
How can we exploit Web 2.0 methodologies and functionalities?
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eContent programme
eContent programme 2009-2011
11 projects - £2.1m
– Strand A: Institutional skills and strategies embed digitisation within institutional strategies and practices; develop effective models of sustaining digitisation; importance of collaboration and partnership
– Strand B: Clustering and enhancement enhancing digital resourcing by improving usability and discoverability; clustering related but isolated resources; embedding into teaching and learning
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Strand A
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LIFE-SHARE
CHICC
CeDAAME
RunCoCo
Look Here!
OCRopodium
•Coordinating digitisation strategies for SOAS collections •links with UK-European networks
•Centre for Digitisation Excellence in the North East (CHICC)• digitisation services
•Exploring open source approaches to OCR•Skilling staff
•Institutional and consortial strategies for digital content•Strategy “toolkit”
•Digitisation life-cycle across institutions •Skills transfer•Community of expertise
•Support, training and software for creating a community collection
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Strand B
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Mapping crime
Visualising China
CEDAR
Grass portal
Connected Histories
•Cross-searching theatre collections•User generated metadata•Embedding in courses
•Thematic linking across different collections
•Cross-searching China collections•Visualisation through maps and timelines •User generated metadata and research spaces•Links to external resources, Flickr, Google books…
•Bringing together major grasses databases•Visualisation tools
•Sophisticated searches across history collections 1500-1900•Collaborative space•Exporting search results for further analysis
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New Strategies for Digital Content
18 March 2011 – London
Alastair Dunning [email protected] @alastairdunning
Paola Marchionni [email protected] @paolamarchionni
#digi11
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