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Endings and new beginnings: update on the Jisc Content programme 2011-13
1. Endings and new
beginnings:
digitisation
beyond content
creation
Update on the
JISC Content programme 2011-2013
Paola Marchionni, Programme Manager Digitisation
p.marchionni@jisc.ac.uk
November 2013
2. JISC Content programme:
where we are
• Strand A and Strand C: end Jan 2013
o Strand A: digitisation and OER; 9 projects
o Strand C: clustering existing content; 7 projects
• Strand B: ends July 2013
o Large scale digitisation; 8 projects
Jisc web pages
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013.aspx
3. Looking back: an opportunity to reflect
on the value of what we do
We asked projects to tell us
in their blogs
http://bit.ly/xfy1Qh (Netvibes)
4. Some highlights: Observing the 1980s
“On reflection …I can see clearly that its
importance and value has been (and will
be) so much more than creating newly
digitised OER content”
• Development of learning, skills and
experience in-house (eg
OER, IPR, partnerships)
• Working practices: collaborative work
across departments (e-
learning, historians, librarians, archivists)
• Capacity and strategy: contributed to
institutional support for this type of
material
• Raise profile of library resources
• New opportunities: new partnership
(SCARLET+ Augmented Reality project) to
drive widening participation agenda
http://bit.ly/VdpD0p
5. Some highlights: OpenLives
“This project has also led to innovation
in the curriculum… the sharing of
teaching ideas and the opportunity to
link research and teaching has been
particularly powerful.”
• Student-centred resources: engaging
students in resources creation
(interactive magazine) and research
activity;
• Innovative curriculum design: new
module set up at University of Leeds
• Working practices: strong collegiality
(not competition) among academics
involved
• Institutional infrastructure: project
builds on Humbox repository for
language resources
http://bit.ly/VdrIJL
6. Some highlights: Welsh WW1 and
Board of Longitude
“We want the Archive… to be firmly
embedded in research and educational
contexts” (Board of Longitude)
“Making this material more widely
accessible will enable historians to address
many new research challenges…” (Welsh
WW1)
• Alignment with research priorities and
http://bit.ly/11btfiW strategies: linking digitisation to current
research activity; creating connections
with other digital content
• Creating a national network of partners
and a national resource: response to the
“need for greater
awareness, understanding, and reappraisal
of the impact of the War on Welsh
society, politics, culture, and language”
http://bit.ly/11bswOJ
7. Some highlights: Old Maps Online
“…we feel that … we have started to
influence how libraries think about
their geographical holdings.”
• Influencing change: galvanised
interest from maps libraries and
showed how material can be explored
(searched and found) in new ways
through the use of geographical
metadata
http://bit.ly/11b9vMt
8. How JISC has worked with projects
• Skills development and information sharing
- Sustainability, web usability, comms and
marketing, OER, IPR…
• Fostering networks and expert communities
- Project clustering, JISC cross-programmes mtgs
(resource discovery, OER, Digging into Data)
• Bringing it all together
- Programme synthesis as interactive media rich e-
publication (articles, videos, images) and coordinated
synthesis with JISC OER and Discovery programmes
Editor's Notes
What is the value of digitisation or content enhancement activities what we do, through our projects, in addition to the outputs the create, ie digitised content?What kind of small and big changes does this bring to an institution, a subject discipline, a community?
bring together departments in the University in a very creative and energising way – e-learning, historians, librarians and archivists
Collegiality: In the highly competitive world of higher education this project has clearly shown that when colleagues work together across universities as a community of practice collegiality rather than competition prevails. Rather than giving away their institution’s Crown Jewels participants in this project are showing how their work can contribute more jewels to the crown through their creative use of the source material and indeed of the ideas (OERs) of others
We have created and implemented new MapRank Search software suitable for hosting material from a myriad of institutionsWe have persuaded a range of different digital map libraries from around the world to participateWe have included maps covering all parts of the whole worldWe have helped some UK libraries add geographical metadata to their digital map imagesWe have encouraged all libraries holding maps to think about their metadata in a geographical contextWe have provided a single entry point for searching maps of the same geographical location without the need to know which library holds the actual mapWe have clustered metadata for use in a new way
