Delivering Cultural Heritage to Different Audiences

Delivering Cultural Heritage to Different Audiences The JISC Digitisation Programme – Educa Online, Berlin 2008 www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research

Delivering Cultural Heritage to Different Audiences Alastair Dunning Programme Manager, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) [email_address] , +44 0203 006 6065 Educa Online, Berlin, November 2008

Background
Digitisation Programme “To build sustainable and coherent e-resources that meet the needs of and are of benefit to learning, teaching and research”
Two phases of Digitisation Programme
Phase 1 – 2003-2007, £10m ( € 14m), 6 projects
Phase 2 – 2007-2009, £12m ( € 17m), 16 projects
Material drawn from UK universities, museums and archives
All projects must make material available for at least five years to at least educational community in UK
Many projects are making their material available via open access for longer periods
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation/

Funder JISC Project (e.g. Oxford Uni) Project (British Library) Project (National Archives) Project (British Film Institute) Users Postgraduates Users Researchers Users Teachers Users Lecturers Users General Public … plus plenty others of users and links Relationship between funders and projects had important influence on relationship between project and end-users

Five Strategies to allow for Creating, Digitising & Adapting Learning Content
5 strategies for funders to help ensure content is available and can re-used by different types of users – “Creating, Digitising & Adapting Learning Content”
Tender process allows funders to select projects which are in alignment with the strategies
Some of the strategies are implemented at the start of a project
Others are more of a process that are implemented during the project’s lifetime
Project themselves will also contribute to ensuring content re-use

1. Ensuring licensed usage for educational sector
All projects must agree to clear copyright to allow for re-use of the digitised objects in (at least) the educational sector
Sample copyright licence supplied by JISC which projects can adapt as needs be
Users should always be able to download content to their desktop
Projects also sign licence with funders to ensure funders have right to distribute digitised material

Modern Welsh Journals Online
All significant Welsh journals since 1900
Project lead National Library of Wales (NLW) signs agreements with publishers to allow for content to be made freely available online
Users will be able to download articles for lectures, notes, PowerPoint, private research etc.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/ programme_digitisation/welshjournals.aspx

2. Use of open standards
Projects must use open standards for file formats where possible
Commonly-used metadata standards are also encouraged
Avoidance of proprietary standards and technologies
Some pragmatism required for some formats (e.g. audio/visual data)

19th Century Pamphlets Online
1m pages of pamphlets relating to UK social, economic, religious history etc.
Images digitised as TIFF
Text digitised as TXT
METS, MODS and PREMIS metadata standards all being used
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/pamphlets.aspx

3. Establishing links between content and the national curriculum
During tender process, potential projects make explicit links between the content they wish to digitise and specific courses (in whatever subject area)
Relevant to curricula of schools, colleges and, more generally, university courses
Thus material digitised can easily be adapted for current usage within these environments

Freeze Frame - 20,000 images recording polar exploration
Project identified courses and curricula where project could have impact
University – Geology, Biology, Anthropology, etc.
Colleges and Schools – Art and Design, History, Geography etc.
Construction of learning work packages built into project plan
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/polar.aspx

4. Developing strategic links with other relevant partners
Building partnerships allow for exposure of content to specific areas
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) for post-16 further education
National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) in USA

5. Supporting assisted take up programmes
Building specific programmes to promote take up of digitised content
Developing case studies, pedagogic materials, providing technological support
Associated workshops and community building
Newsfilm Online ( http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/ - test version)
Assisted take-up materials (https://hullnewsfilm.wikispaces.com/)

Five Strategies
4. Developing strategic links with other relevant partners
5. Supporting assisted take up programmes
Any Questions?
Alastair Dunning, [email_address] , 0203 006 6065

Delivering Cultural Heritage to Different Audiences Alastair Dunning Programme Manager, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) [email_address] , +44 0203 006 6065 Any Questions?

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