Introduction and Context – Catherine Grout

Digital Content Task Force Meeting 27 th July 2010 Introduction and Context 12/08/10 | Supporting education and research | Slide Catherine Grout: JISC eContent Director

The Vision
A coherent, sustainable and growing UK collection of digital content for lifelong learning and research
Interoperable, integrated, and embedded within the social, cultural and educational activities of the citizen
As a true foundation stone for learning and research
As a nexus for creativity, and a touch stone for investment and entrepreneurial activity
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The Value Proposition
An opportunity to assert the British brand in a compelling new way and open up opportunities for physical and virtual tourism
To keep ahead of or at least now keep up with our competitors in other nations
To take advantage of the social web and the new degrees of web traffic so ensuring that our authoritative content is included and exploited
(We probably will not achieve that with the largely ad hoc best efforts approach we currently have.)
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The Environment
We are living in interesting and challenging times
Most organisations are having to consider afresh their core offering and how they rise to the challenge of doing more (or at least the same!) with less
For content rich organisations there is a particular challenge to understand what role the digital offer may play in future?
There is also a need to look at a range of partnerships and models afresh and what they can achieve?
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Role of JISC
As facilitator and catalyst…
JISC would like to use the expertise in the room today to help better understand how we might move forward with building tomorrow’s digital collections in today’s environment
As a provider and funder of digital content
We would like to share with you what we have learnt through our own investment programmes and ask you to consider the successes, failures, strengths and weaknesses of what we and our partners have achieved

What has the UK achieved so far?
Some Scholarly and innovative digital collections
Some considerable progress in technologies, tools, techniques and understanding of our audiences
In terms of numbers… only the beginning of the journey
Achieved with a relatively low level of co-ordination nationally

What is in the JISC Collection?
Digitised Archives and Collections (texts, images, time based media) : FOCUS TODAY
Journal Articles; eBooks; Research Data (Geospatial etc.) Open Content: Learning Resources, Research Papers etc. in Community repositories etc.
You can now have a look at it in one place at: http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk

The Proposition Today
WHY - Consider and discuss the arguments for why it is important to carry on growing and developing our digital collections
WHAT – as critical friends consider the journey so far and what has been achieved
HOW - Consider what kind of models might be possible to use going forward
IDENTIFY – Opportunities going forward and what collectively and individually we might be able to do to realise those opportunities
Now
Medium Term
Long term

Introduction and Context – Catherine Grout

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