JISC Digging into Data

JISC: A Word from the Sponsors With the Strange Acronym
Alastair Dunning
@alastairdunning, http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org
Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC

JISC ?
Joint Information Systems Committee – World’s worst acronym
Currently government funded, $130m core funding
Supports Higher Education in three key areas
Provides JANET – network for UK HE and beyond
Service infrastructure – email lists, collections licensing, data centres
Innovative projects – digitisation, digital infrastructure, e-learning, admin systems

http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk is a gateway to all the content JISC has digitised or licensed. Some of the content is open access; some is gated. Around 70 projects, c.$50m

http://www.cartoons.ac.uk presents artwork of 150,000 political cartoons from UK 20th-century newspapers.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ publishes all minutes of UK government cabinet meetings from 1915 to 1980

http://sounds.bl.ukmakes oral histories, classical music, accents and dialects available – some gated, some open access

http://oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1digitised classic WW1 poetry, but also introduced crowdsourced digitisation of the general public’s WW1 collections

Concern over usage
Log Analysis of Resources in Arts and Humanities (2006) pointed out problems with digital resources - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/LAIRAH/
Splashes and Ripples (2011) demonstrated significant improvements - http://ssrn.com/abstract=1846535
Toolkit for the Impact of Scholarly Digitised Resources - http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr
Concurrent focus on innovative uses of resources

http://www.connectedhistories.org provides a search tool, with added functionality, over 11 related digital resources, with more to come.

http://oldweather.org asks the general public to transcribe naval logs, with the resultant meteorological data used by climate scientists

Digging into Data
Like other funders, looking at ways to exploit the entire corpus rather than individual items
Visualisation and other outputs new forms of explication and engagement
Enhances possibility of public engagement
Importance of outputs that explain research without sacrificing integrity

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JISC Digging into Data

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