CILIP Multimedia Information & Technology Group, Scotland Thursday 30th April 2009

Iain Wallace Digital Services Development Librarian Spoken Word Services Glasgow Caledonian University www.spokenword.ac.uk www.spokenword.ac.uk www.spokenword.ac.uk

Who am I?

Glasgow Caledonian University

Spoken Word Services www.spokenword.ac.uk www.spokenword.ac.uk

Why am I here?

To talk to you about what we do at Spoken Word ... and how that might be relevant to you

Coping with constant change

We provide access to rich, authentic digital audio and video resources for Higher Education worldwide

A brief history ...

The Spoken Word project

JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom 2003 - 2008

‘ Transformation of teaching and learning’

Project partners

Glasgow Caledonian University BBC Information & Archives Northwestern University Michigan State University Michigan State University

Broad roles, responsibilities & objectives

GCU: enhancing learning, teaching & research ... working out what scholars need

BBC: providing access to content and gaining access to Higher Education

NU & MSU: technology developments

What have we done so far?

Some Traditional Values…Aspirations and Ambitions

Contemporary Realities ... the Socio-Technological World of the Modern Learner

‘ Writing on and for the internet’

We developed a user community ... with early dissemination and collaborations

Selectors from many different academic disciplines

Pedagogical pluralism

Technologies

The world is constantly changing

‘ Separation of concerns’ model

Repositories, middleware and front end tools

How modular are your own library systems?

The wider context of Scholarly Communication

New publishing frameworks

Federated, interoperable repositories

We use Fedora

Open standards

Open access -- open data -- open scholarship

Middle and front end workflow tools

Scholar’s workbench

What does this mean for Scholarly Communication using multimedia?

Challenges ...

Rights

GCU and the BBC developed ...

A legal Deposit Agreement

An informal Memorandum of Understanding

GCU developed a legal End-User Agreement based on this Deposit Agreement

How do we reduce risks?

Content selection policy

Radical 3rd party rights clearance

Takedown policy

Who are our users? How can we protect valuable resources?

Identity ... Shibboleth

Federated trust enables audience segmentation

So we understand better who our users are, but ...

What do they want to do with our content?

We can’t know ...

... but it doesn’t matter so long as we understand the web

The web has changed a lot since 2003 ...

... and it will keep changing rapidly

it is increasingly participatory

it is increasingly about user-generated content

it is increasingly open

it is increasingly social

Social web of linked data

your content will be re-used in ways you didn’t anticipate

so make sure people can easily take your content, your API and URLs and use them to build something different

try and understand the importance of ‘social’ activity around content

LMS and repositories have said little about the social use that grows around content ...

... but that is changing

Blogging, podcasting, social networking ...

... and changes in OPACs

Some questions

What happens to digital content created in your own institution?

Does your repository accept all types of content?

Can you find everything via the Library?

How do you use the 'social web’ and why?

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Thank you