The document discusses strategies for enhancing the impact of digital resources through collaboration and aggregation, emphasizing the importance of partnerships among universities, content holders, and commercial publishers. It notes successful digitized resources share characteristics like critical mass and multiple sources, while also highlighting the tension between user needs and institutional objectives. The conclusion suggests that for high impact, universities should collaborate with others to enrich their digital content and ensure visibility and accessibility.

1. 18th March 2011 - New Strategies for Digital ContentImpact, Aggregation, PartnershipAlastair DunningJISC Digitisation Programme Manager@alastairdunning

2. which are the really successful digitised resources?

3. source: my personal opinionheadnote: there’s a whole messy argument about impact and value i’m skipping overalso worthy of mention: visual arts data service, british history online, archaeology data service, british cartoon archive, and many more ...in higher education: eebo, tlg, old bailey online, complete works of charles darwin (and more)

4. which are the really successful digital resources?

5. see: http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.aspin education: PubMed central, Research Papers in Economics, arXiV

6. but also in education: wikipedia, flickr, google, google books

7. what do these resources have in common?

8. aggregationcritical massmultiple sources

9. thinking of the educational resources, how do we know they are successful? and more over why are they successful?

10. the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online

11. the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online

12. the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online

13. the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online

14. so this should give us some clear indications of how we want to build digitised resources in the futuredrawing on multiple sources is necessary to offer a resource with a wide impact

15. now, turn to university digital / digitisation strategies

16. they are full of well considered points about seeking multiple funding sources

17. strategic engagement within the institution

18. meeting user needs

19. preservation, sustainability

20. and all the other things we go on aboutbut, how many of them have given thought to creating resources with others?

21. maybe a few. but it does not fit well with institutional strategies.

22. and if you want senior support and buy in for your digital strategy, it needs to fit in with your university’s focus

23. a tension:users (that, um, use the resources)vsuniversities (that provide the digitised resources)

24. How should universities proceed?

25. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal withcommercial publishersE.g. ProQuest, Gale, Adam Matthewsnon for profit platformsE.g. JSTOR, JISC Collections

26. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal withbut also other universities, collections holdersand researchers

27. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal withuniversitiesand other collections holders will have related content that will make your content stronger

28. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal withbut why should university senior management want to host others’ collections?

29. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal withbecause your university researchers can provide the expertise in curating and editing the websitebut more importantly, your university staff can use the resource to advance their teaching and research and raise the university’s profile

30. c.200,000 criminal trials from Old Bailey, 1674 – 1913240,000 manuscripts from eight London archives and 15 datasetsthe results: new forms of ebook publishing

31. undergraduates undertaking research

32. altered study of 18th century london – “history from below”