The content of these slides (or better, the great majority of it) derives from an initial analysis of the results of a survey the JISC Content team circulated among previously funded projects in the areas of digitisation and content. Comments to each slide have been incorporated into the slides, as they are quite extensive. The survey aimed to find out more about how digitised collections were being used and the impact such projects have had on their hosting institutions and more broadly.
How you can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching and learning...Jisc
The document discusses efficiencies and effectiveness in further education. It provides examples of savings and efficiencies from various Jisc programs and collections. Jisc Collections negotiates licence agreements worth over £90 million annually, achieving savings of over £70 million for the sector. The document also discusses tools and services available from Jisc to support digital capabilities, delivering a robust flexible learning environment, and enhancing the student digital experience.
The wider environment of open scholarship – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July ...Jisc
1. The document discusses shifts in scholarship towards more open and collaborative models enabled by digital technologies, including the end of traditional scholarly articles and emergence of "social machines" involving both humans and machines.
2. It proposes a new model of scholarly communication called "social objects" that are part of a computational network of expertise, data, and narratives maintained by both humans and machines.
3. Key aspects of this new model include research objects that encode the full scholarly process and outputs, and social machines that empower researchers through collaborative and automated curation of the scholarly record.
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
Making research data more resourceful - Jisc digital festival 2015Jisc
This discussion examined how best to implement policy and deliver services to meet the needs of researchers, their funders, and the university. institutional research data management policies, infrastructure and support services and will be showcased alongside the DMPOnline tool that helps researchers produce effective data management plans.
Business intelligence: making more informed decisions - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
We’re developing a lab environment for you to experiment with data sources to create dashboards and analyses to help a wide range of staff in your organisation make better informed, strategic decisions.
Learn about our agile approach and some of the legal and practical issues we’ve come across around data re-use. Hear how university data experts have benefitted from taking part and see some of the new dashboards and analyses the teams have created.
A digital literacies framework – its strengths, weaknesses and opportunitiesJisc
Speaker: Fiona Handley, senior lecturer in learning and teaching, University of Brighton.
This session will explore the University of Brighton’s digital literacies framework which was launched in 2014.
The framework, which is aimed at academic staff, is divided into four categories: learning and teaching, research, communication and collaboration, and administration.
The session explores the strengths of a framework approach, the challenges it presents, but also the ongoing opportunities it offers compared to other digital literacy and capability initiatives.
Opening up data: a UK perspective – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July 2014Jisc
This document summarizes Kevin Ashley's presentation on opening up research data from a UK perspective. The presentation discusses the policy background around open data in the UK, developments in infrastructure to support open data, and costs associated with making data openly available. It also notes that fully realizing the benefits of open data will require international cooperation across organizations like the Digital Curation Centre.
Keynote speech - Carole Goble - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Carole Goble is a professor in the school of computer science at the University of Manchester.
In this keynote, Carole offered her insights into research data management and data centres.
How you can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching and learning...Jisc
The document discusses efficiencies and effectiveness in further education. It provides examples of savings and efficiencies from various Jisc programs and collections. Jisc Collections negotiates licence agreements worth over £90 million annually, achieving savings of over £70 million for the sector. The document also discusses tools and services available from Jisc to support digital capabilities, delivering a robust flexible learning environment, and enhancing the student digital experience.
The wider environment of open scholarship – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July ...Jisc
1. The document discusses shifts in scholarship towards more open and collaborative models enabled by digital technologies, including the end of traditional scholarly articles and emergence of "social machines" involving both humans and machines.
2. It proposes a new model of scholarly communication called "social objects" that are part of a computational network of expertise, data, and narratives maintained by both humans and machines.
3. Key aspects of this new model include research objects that encode the full scholarly process and outputs, and social machines that empower researchers through collaborative and automated curation of the scholarly record.
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
Making research data more resourceful - Jisc digital festival 2015Jisc
This discussion examined how best to implement policy and deliver services to meet the needs of researchers, their funders, and the university. institutional research data management policies, infrastructure and support services and will be showcased alongside the DMPOnline tool that helps researchers produce effective data management plans.
Business intelligence: making more informed decisions - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
We’re developing a lab environment for you to experiment with data sources to create dashboards and analyses to help a wide range of staff in your organisation make better informed, strategic decisions.
Learn about our agile approach and some of the legal and practical issues we’ve come across around data re-use. Hear how university data experts have benefitted from taking part and see some of the new dashboards and analyses the teams have created.
A digital literacies framework – its strengths, weaknesses and opportunitiesJisc
Speaker: Fiona Handley, senior lecturer in learning and teaching, University of Brighton.
This session will explore the University of Brighton’s digital literacies framework which was launched in 2014.
The framework, which is aimed at academic staff, is divided into four categories: learning and teaching, research, communication and collaboration, and administration.
The session explores the strengths of a framework approach, the challenges it presents, but also the ongoing opportunities it offers compared to other digital literacy and capability initiatives.
Opening up data: a UK perspective – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July 2014Jisc
This document summarizes Kevin Ashley's presentation on opening up research data from a UK perspective. The presentation discusses the policy background around open data in the UK, developments in infrastructure to support open data, and costs associated with making data openly available. It also notes that fully realizing the benefits of open data will require international cooperation across organizations like the Digital Curation Centre.
Keynote speech - Carole Goble - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Carole Goble is a professor in the school of computer science at the University of Manchester.
In this keynote, Carole offered her insights into research data management and data centres.
How can technology help to prepare learners for the world of work?Jisc
How can technology help to prepare learners for the world of work? Delivered by Lisa Gray, Peter Chatterton and Geoff Rebbeck at the Learning and teaching practice experts group, 22 April 2015
This online European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) event was held on 15 December 2021.
You’ll get information about:
- Developments in the EOSC Association
- The work of the new EOSC Advisory Groups and Task Forces
- What’s happening in some of the EOSC implementation projects
- Ways you can become involved in EOSC
Digital capability community of practice launch Jisc
This document provides an overview of a Digital Capability Community of Practice Launch event. Key details include:
- The event will take place on May 9th and include presentations from experts, discussion activities, and networking opportunities.
- Attendees will hear from speakers on developing organizational approaches to digital capabilities and share examples of effective practice from their institutions.
- Activities will allow participants to co-create resources for the community and map current practices. A panel will also vision the digitally capable organization of the future.
- Jisc will provide an update on new digital capability resources and frameworks developed for the community. Pilots of tools like the discovery tool will also be discussed.
- Attende
The role of UK higher education (HE), further education (FE) and skills sectors in developing student employability is clear. Technology can be an enabler to the development and communication of employability skills, but are organisations and employers making best use of it?
This presentation aims to share and discuss the emerging themes and ideas being generated through our student employability project, which explores how technology can best support students to develop and communicate the skills that are needed for the workplace.
The presentation informs participants of what has been learnt so far and engage them in discussions. We will:
Share emergent themes including issues and opportunities from the study
Share, discuss and build on ideas for what organisations, programme teams and we can do to enhance student employability and the use of technology.
Presenters:
Lisa Gray, senior co-design manager, Jisc
Peter Chatterton, independent consultant, higher education
Geoff Rebbeck, independent consultant, further education and skills
Who will find this useful?
The presentation will be of interest to anyone across HE, FE and skills with an interest in how students develop and communicate employability skills, primarily:
Senior managers with responsibility for employer responsiveness and employer engagement
Academic/teaching staff with an interest in employability
Technology-enhanced learning and academic enhancement roles
Employability leads
Staff with responsibility for personal development planning (PDP)
Careers staff.
Visions of the Future of Learning AnalyticsDoug Clow
Eight visions of the future of learning analytics, created as a way of exploring possible futures by the LACE (Learning Analytics Community Exchange) Project, and presented at Bett 2016, London, 20 January 2016
Chair: Steve Kennett, security director, Jisc.
The UK education and research sectors have extensive international partnerships with their peers overseas. New scientific instruments such as the Square Kilometre Array and developments such as Brexit are likely to increase the institutional requirement for enhanced digital services to locations overseas.
This will require increased collaboration amongst the providers of the campus, national, and international networks and other e-infrastructures. In this session we will look at ways in which Jisc and its international peers are working to connect the global education and research communities that they serve.
Running order of talks:
16:15-16:40 - Internet2 future infrastructure planning
Speaker: John Moore, Internet2.
16:40-17:05 - Connecting TVETs on a shoestring: bringing the internet to South African colleges
Speaker: Arno Hart, TENET.
17:05-17:30 - Jisc's international strategy – how we can help you
Speaker: Esther Wilkinson, head of international, Jisc.
Student experience experts group meet up, April 2020Jisc
This document summarizes the agenda for the 46th meeting of Jisc's student experience experts group. The meeting will include presentations and discussions on the future of assessment, transforming assessment and feedback through technology, and equipping staff with digital capabilities. Presentations will cover Jisc's research on the future of assessment, examples of effective practice from Manchester Metropolitan University and Preston's College, and supporting new students' digital experience. The agenda also includes virtual coffee breaks and a lunch break. Recordings and materials from the event will be made available on Jisc's website.
Exploring co-design - Jisc's new approach to innovationJisc
Jisc has developed a new approach to innovation called co-design. This approach involves Jisc customers and stakeholders much more closely in every stage of the innovation process from deciding which issues and opportunities to address to managing projects and ensuring institutions benefit from outputs. Jisc piloted this approach during 2013 and this session will reflect on the pilot and the projects that were included. From 2014 onwards, all Jisc innovation work will be managed using co-design. This session will allow delegates to explore the co-design approach and help shape the themes that we will focus on this year.
Implementing Open Access: Effective Management of Your Research DataMartin Hamilton
This document discusses research data management and support available from Jisc and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). It provides background on policy drivers for research data management, outlines support offered by the DCC including capability studies, data management planning tools, and training. It also summarizes results from a 2014 survey of UK higher education institutions which found most progress in policy development and plans, but challenges around staffing, funding, and engagement of researchers. The document concludes with feedback on future priorities such as compelling services, engaging researchers, and shared infrastructure solutions.
The new field of Learning Design provides ways to describe innovative teaching strategies, and methods for their online implementation. Last Monday Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University ran a workshop at INSPIRE on this topic. James was in Canberra as part of his Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship. The first half of this workshop covered Learning Design concepts and implementation, examples from the "LAMS" Learning Design system, and a discussion of recent development and future prospects for the field. The second half of the workshop was opened up for discussion, questions and exploration of examples, including consideration of the connections between Learning Design and Curriculum Design. Keith Lyons has blogged about the workshop here and the James's powerpoint slides are here.
Leveraging change through digital capability - Scott Hibberson, Saf Arfan and...Jisc
Led by Scott Hibberson, subject specialist - online learning and the digital student experience, Jisc.
With contributions from
Saf Arfan, vice-principal for development and innovation at Salford City College
Dr Liz Bennett, director of learning and teaching at the University of Huddersfield
Connect more in Liverpool, 21 June 2016
Research data spring: streamlining depositJisc RDM
The research data spring project "Streamlining deposit: an OJS to repository plugin" slides for the third sandpit workshop. Project led by Ernesto Priego of City University London.
Figshare for institutions - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
In May 2015 the EPSRC policy framework on research data came into effect. Salford University partnered with figshare to not only answer the mandate but to enhance the visibility of the research generated at the institution. All public facing research outputs are freely available to the wider public at salford.figshare.com.
Learn more about University of Salford’s approach and get a high level overview of the latest figshare functionality.
Joining it all up: developing research-practice linkages in the UKHazel Hall
Seminar presentation on efforts to strengthen research-practice linkages in librarianship and information science in the UK since 2009 presented to the School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland on Thursday 13th March 2014. There is a fuller report of my work visit to Finland at http://hazelhall.org/2014/03/17/social-media-and-public-libraries-a-doctoral-defence-in-finland/.
Digital scholarship and identifiers - Geoffrey Bilder, CrossReff
Share update – Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
Jisc Monitor update – Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Infrastructure and services to track research activity – Daniel Hook, Digital Science
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
Agile resources on the open web …. a global digital libraryJisc
The document summarizes a presentation about JISC's efforts to create an open, global digital library and infrastructure for accessing educational resources. It discusses JISC's role in funding content providers and shared services; principles for the infrastructure including being integrated, interoperable, and sustainable; creating open metadata and linking datasets; and a vision of students and researchers having easy access to integrated library, museum and archive resources through a collaborative framework.
The document summarizes presentations from the OpenGLAM Working Group at Wikimania 2014 in London. It describes initiatives in several countries to open cultural data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) and promote best practices. The Netherlands program includes OpenGLAM masterclasses to train GLAMs on open data. Germany's program included a cultural data hackathon. Switzerland conducted an OpenGLAM benchmark survey of heritage institutions and a pilot project encouraging institutions to contribute to Wikipedia.
Spotlight on the digital, http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/spotlight-on-the-digital/, is a collaborative project between Jisc, RLUK and SCONUL. It sought to assess the discoverability problem in relation to digitised collections and identify practical solutions to improve their discoverability both at national/above campus level and locally at institutional level.
These slides describe a range of above campus or national “solutions” that have been identified by the project and that could support the discoverability of digitised collections.
How can technology help to prepare learners for the world of work?Jisc
How can technology help to prepare learners for the world of work? Delivered by Lisa Gray, Peter Chatterton and Geoff Rebbeck at the Learning and teaching practice experts group, 22 April 2015
This online European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) event was held on 15 December 2021.
You’ll get information about:
- Developments in the EOSC Association
- The work of the new EOSC Advisory Groups and Task Forces
- What’s happening in some of the EOSC implementation projects
- Ways you can become involved in EOSC
Digital capability community of practice launch Jisc
This document provides an overview of a Digital Capability Community of Practice Launch event. Key details include:
- The event will take place on May 9th and include presentations from experts, discussion activities, and networking opportunities.
- Attendees will hear from speakers on developing organizational approaches to digital capabilities and share examples of effective practice from their institutions.
- Activities will allow participants to co-create resources for the community and map current practices. A panel will also vision the digitally capable organization of the future.
- Jisc will provide an update on new digital capability resources and frameworks developed for the community. Pilots of tools like the discovery tool will also be discussed.
- Attende
The role of UK higher education (HE), further education (FE) and skills sectors in developing student employability is clear. Technology can be an enabler to the development and communication of employability skills, but are organisations and employers making best use of it?
This presentation aims to share and discuss the emerging themes and ideas being generated through our student employability project, which explores how technology can best support students to develop and communicate the skills that are needed for the workplace.
The presentation informs participants of what has been learnt so far and engage them in discussions. We will:
Share emergent themes including issues and opportunities from the study
Share, discuss and build on ideas for what organisations, programme teams and we can do to enhance student employability and the use of technology.
Presenters:
Lisa Gray, senior co-design manager, Jisc
Peter Chatterton, independent consultant, higher education
Geoff Rebbeck, independent consultant, further education and skills
Who will find this useful?
The presentation will be of interest to anyone across HE, FE and skills with an interest in how students develop and communicate employability skills, primarily:
Senior managers with responsibility for employer responsiveness and employer engagement
Academic/teaching staff with an interest in employability
Technology-enhanced learning and academic enhancement roles
Employability leads
Staff with responsibility for personal development planning (PDP)
Careers staff.
Visions of the Future of Learning AnalyticsDoug Clow
Eight visions of the future of learning analytics, created as a way of exploring possible futures by the LACE (Learning Analytics Community Exchange) Project, and presented at Bett 2016, London, 20 January 2016
Chair: Steve Kennett, security director, Jisc.
The UK education and research sectors have extensive international partnerships with their peers overseas. New scientific instruments such as the Square Kilometre Array and developments such as Brexit are likely to increase the institutional requirement for enhanced digital services to locations overseas.
This will require increased collaboration amongst the providers of the campus, national, and international networks and other e-infrastructures. In this session we will look at ways in which Jisc and its international peers are working to connect the global education and research communities that they serve.
Running order of talks:
16:15-16:40 - Internet2 future infrastructure planning
Speaker: John Moore, Internet2.
16:40-17:05 - Connecting TVETs on a shoestring: bringing the internet to South African colleges
Speaker: Arno Hart, TENET.
17:05-17:30 - Jisc's international strategy – how we can help you
Speaker: Esther Wilkinson, head of international, Jisc.
Student experience experts group meet up, April 2020Jisc
This document summarizes the agenda for the 46th meeting of Jisc's student experience experts group. The meeting will include presentations and discussions on the future of assessment, transforming assessment and feedback through technology, and equipping staff with digital capabilities. Presentations will cover Jisc's research on the future of assessment, examples of effective practice from Manchester Metropolitan University and Preston's College, and supporting new students' digital experience. The agenda also includes virtual coffee breaks and a lunch break. Recordings and materials from the event will be made available on Jisc's website.
Exploring co-design - Jisc's new approach to innovationJisc
Jisc has developed a new approach to innovation called co-design. This approach involves Jisc customers and stakeholders much more closely in every stage of the innovation process from deciding which issues and opportunities to address to managing projects and ensuring institutions benefit from outputs. Jisc piloted this approach during 2013 and this session will reflect on the pilot and the projects that were included. From 2014 onwards, all Jisc innovation work will be managed using co-design. This session will allow delegates to explore the co-design approach and help shape the themes that we will focus on this year.
Implementing Open Access: Effective Management of Your Research DataMartin Hamilton
This document discusses research data management and support available from Jisc and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). It provides background on policy drivers for research data management, outlines support offered by the DCC including capability studies, data management planning tools, and training. It also summarizes results from a 2014 survey of UK higher education institutions which found most progress in policy development and plans, but challenges around staffing, funding, and engagement of researchers. The document concludes with feedback on future priorities such as compelling services, engaging researchers, and shared infrastructure solutions.
The new field of Learning Design provides ways to describe innovative teaching strategies, and methods for their online implementation. Last Monday Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University ran a workshop at INSPIRE on this topic. James was in Canberra as part of his Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship. The first half of this workshop covered Learning Design concepts and implementation, examples from the "LAMS" Learning Design system, and a discussion of recent development and future prospects for the field. The second half of the workshop was opened up for discussion, questions and exploration of examples, including consideration of the connections between Learning Design and Curriculum Design. Keith Lyons has blogged about the workshop here and the James's powerpoint slides are here.
Leveraging change through digital capability - Scott Hibberson, Saf Arfan and...Jisc
Led by Scott Hibberson, subject specialist - online learning and the digital student experience, Jisc.
With contributions from
Saf Arfan, vice-principal for development and innovation at Salford City College
Dr Liz Bennett, director of learning and teaching at the University of Huddersfield
Connect more in Liverpool, 21 June 2016
Research data spring: streamlining depositJisc RDM
The research data spring project "Streamlining deposit: an OJS to repository plugin" slides for the third sandpit workshop. Project led by Ernesto Priego of City University London.
Figshare for institutions - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
In May 2015 the EPSRC policy framework on research data came into effect. Salford University partnered with figshare to not only answer the mandate but to enhance the visibility of the research generated at the institution. All public facing research outputs are freely available to the wider public at salford.figshare.com.
Learn more about University of Salford’s approach and get a high level overview of the latest figshare functionality.
Joining it all up: developing research-practice linkages in the UKHazel Hall
Seminar presentation on efforts to strengthen research-practice linkages in librarianship and information science in the UK since 2009 presented to the School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland on Thursday 13th March 2014. There is a fuller report of my work visit to Finland at http://hazelhall.org/2014/03/17/social-media-and-public-libraries-a-doctoral-defence-in-finland/.
Digital scholarship and identifiers - Geoffrey Bilder, CrossReff
Share update – Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
Jisc Monitor update – Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Infrastructure and services to track research activity – Daniel Hook, Digital Science
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
Agile resources on the open web …. a global digital libraryJisc
The document summarizes a presentation about JISC's efforts to create an open, global digital library and infrastructure for accessing educational resources. It discusses JISC's role in funding content providers and shared services; principles for the infrastructure including being integrated, interoperable, and sustainable; creating open metadata and linking datasets; and a vision of students and researchers having easy access to integrated library, museum and archive resources through a collaborative framework.
The document summarizes presentations from the OpenGLAM Working Group at Wikimania 2014 in London. It describes initiatives in several countries to open cultural data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) and promote best practices. The Netherlands program includes OpenGLAM masterclasses to train GLAMs on open data. Germany's program included a cultural data hackathon. Switzerland conducted an OpenGLAM benchmark survey of heritage institutions and a pilot project encouraging institutions to contribute to Wikipedia.
Spotlight on the digital, http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/spotlight-on-the-digital/, is a collaborative project between Jisc, RLUK and SCONUL. It sought to assess the discoverability problem in relation to digitised collections and identify practical solutions to improve their discoverability both at national/above campus level and locally at institutional level.
These slides describe a range of above campus or national “solutions” that have been identified by the project and that could support the discoverability of digitised collections.
The document lists the top 10 most expensive cars in the world, ranging in price from $255,000 to over $1.7 million for a Bugatti Veyron. It provides each car's price, top speed when available, and horsepower. The cars highlighted include models from Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce, Maybach, Mercedes, Porsche, Koenigsegg, Pagani, Ferrari and Bugatti.
Navigating a sea of stories: new online resources from the JISC Digitisation ...PaolaMarchionni
A presentation on a selection of newly launched digital resources funded by the JISC digitisation programme 2007-2009. Also covers some of the key issues for digitisation projects.
This document summarizes an online briefing about the JISC Grant Funding 06/11 eContent Capital Programme. It outlines the three strands of funding available - Strand A for digitization of open educational resources, Strand B for mass digitization, and Strand C for clustering digital content. Key application details are provided, such as eligibility, budgets, timelines and evaluation requirements. Best practices for bid writing like project management, risk assessment and supporting documents are also covered.
Digitisation in the UK and the JISC Content programmePaolaMarchionni
The document summarizes JISC's digitization efforts and landscape in the UK. It notes that JISC has invested over £30 million in over 100 digitization projects since 2004. These projects digitize special collections from libraries and make them openly available when possible. Challenges include copyright, long-term sustainability, and bringing scattered digital collections together. Partnerships with other institutions and the public are important for content creation and access.
An update on the progress of the projects in the JISC Content programme 2011-13 covering areas such as IPR and licencing; users consultation; parnterships; embedding resourcing in teaching, learnignand research; and technologies projects are using.
Las Sanciones Administrativas Y El Debido Procesodeisyj
El documento habla sobre el debido proceso en las sanciones administrativas. Explica que el debido proceso es el derecho de todo ciudadano a que su caso sea atendido siguiendo estrictamente las normas establecidas de manera justa, oportuna y eficaz. También indica que el debido proceso requiere que haya reglas claras y equitativas en todas las actuaciones judiciales y administrativas, y que se respeten derechos como legalidad, imparcialidad y presunción de inocencia.
Developing Digital Literacies through the Visitor and Resident Mapping Process Kay Hack
Following the use of the Visitor and Resident mapping process to explore the way students study online, two learning activities are illustrated which scaffold the development of digital literacies.
Crowdsourcing involves breaking large tasks into smaller pieces that can be completed by members of the general public, often online. It provides benefits like lower costs, greater scale and access to citizen data. However, it also faces challenges like ensuring data quality and sustained participation. Well-designed projects and engagement are needed to motivate crowds and address issues. Quality assurance processes are important to build trust in citizen science.
Digital Academic Content and the Future of Libraries: International Cooperati...UBC Library
International Library Cooperation Symposium presentation May 14, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.
Presentation by Ingrid Parent, President elect of IFLA, and University Librarian at the University of British Columbia
This document provides an overview of best practices for stakeholder engagement and communication regarding carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, based on research and lessons learned from past CCS projects. It discusses five key steps for an effective stakeholder strategy: identifying stakeholders, understanding stakeholders, crafting appropriate messages, selecting suitable messengers, and integrating communication as a core project activity. Common success factors include considering social context, early engagement, targeted messaging, flexibility, and education. The document also describes education outreach resources available through the Global CCS Institute.
Business Models for Digital Content: A Perspective from UK Higher Education a...EUscreen
Presentation by Catherine Grout about a perspective on business models for digital content from UK Higher Education and on the work of the Strategic Content Alliance at the Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity, which took place at the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, on September 15-16, 2011.
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
The document discusses the skills needed for researchers to adapt to the future demands of digital research. It outlines several roles that may be important for future researchers, including information manager, data manager, technologist, PR manager, and project manager. It also summarizes findings from a study on the research behaviors of doctoral students and barriers they face. Key needs identified include training researchers in research data management and data skills to help address issues around data sharing, reproducibility, and making the most of digital tools and resources.
The document discusses open data initiatives and tools for data sharing. It describes projects from the EDINA National Data Centre, DISC-UK DataShare project which investigated legal and technical issues around research data sharing, and tools for visualizing and sharing numeric and spatial data online like Many Eyes, Gapminder and OpenStreetMap. It also covers barriers to data sharing, harnessing collective intelligence through open science, and citizens contributing geographic data through tools like geograph.
The University of Edinburgh has undertaken several initiatives to improve research data management practices among researchers:
- Projects funded by JISC aimed to enhance the university's data library services and support researchers in sharing and managing their data. This included establishing an institutional data repository.
- Engaging with researchers through a data audit found that storage was often insufficient and data was not well managed or documented. This highlighted the need to support researchers in better data management practices.
- Current efforts include developing research data storage and management policies, providing training through the Research Data MANTRA project, and recommending ways to address researchers' data storage and documentation needs. The goal is to help researchers share, publish and enable reuse of research data.
Slides presented at the Spanish Agency of Science and Technology (FECYT) and the network of Spanish repositories (RECOLECTA) Research Data Management Webinar Series - see url:
http://www.recolecta.net/buscador/webminars.jsp
Spotlight on the Digital: increase discovery of your digital resourcesPaolaMarchionni
These slides provide some background on the Spotlight on the Digital project and its outputs. The project investigated the barriers to the discovery of digitised collections and offered some practical solutions to ensure that digitised/digital resources are easy to find. The project was a collaboration between Jisc, Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Society of College,National and University Libraries (SCONUL).
Immersive informatics - research data management at Pitt iSchool and Carnegie...Keith Webster
A joint presentation by Liz Lyon and Keith Webster on providing education for librarians engaged in research data management. This was delivered at Library Research Seminar VI, at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in September 2014. The presentation looks at a class delivered by Lyon at the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool in 2014, and the related needs for immersive training opportunities amongst experienced practicing librarians, using Carnegie Mellon University's library, led by Webster, as a case study.
A coordinated approach to Library and Information Science Research: the UK ex...Hazel Hall
In 2009, the Library and Information Science (LIS) Research Coalition was established in the UK by major players in the LIS landscape. The Coalition had a particular interest in supporting practicing librarians and information scientists, both in how they can access and exploit available research in their work, and in their own development as practitioner researchers.
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Some facts and figures about JISC digitisation impact
1. Some facts and
figures on JISC
digi impact
Paola Marchionni, Digitisation Programme Manager, p.marchionni@jisc.ac.uk
@paolamarchionni
Peter Findlay, Digitisation Programme Manager, p.findlay@jisc.ac.uk
@PFindlayJISC
2. [Notes on slide 1]
The content of these slides (or better, the great majority of it) derives from an initial analysis of the results of
a survey the JISC Content team circulated among previously funded projects (since 2007) in the areas of
digitisation and content, see all projects here http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation.
The survey aimed to find out more about how digitised collections were being used and the impact such
projects have had on their hosting institutions and more broadly.
4. [Notes on slide 3]
The JISC Content team developed the Toolkit for the Impact of Scholarly Digitised Resources (TIDSR)
http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr to provide some guidance to projects and their institutions on the range
of qualitative and quantitative methods that can be used to gather data about usage and impact of digitised
resources. The toolkit also contains case studies, reports, and a knowledge base with articles. This is now
embedded within the JISC digitisation and content programmes. Many respondents to the survey used the
approaches suggested in the toolkit to measure usage and impact.
The survey was circulated to 103 projects and 62 responses were received. These slides contain only some
high level findings. We are conducting a more thorough interpretation of the results which we plan to make
available as soon as possible.
6. [Notes on slide 5]
The survey asked both quantitative and qualitative questions about the digital collections that had been
created or enhanced, how these collections were being used and what impact the JISC-funded work had had
within institutions. As expected, a number of respondents didn’t always have the information requested
because they hadn’t necessarily been capturing the data, or because it wasn’t available to them (eg in the
case of commercial partnerships).
So, a disclaimer: these “stories” of impact represent only a partial picture, but one which however reveals
some initial indicative patterns of impact and areas where concrete positive change has been identified and
which we could pursue.
We also looked at impact from the point of view of who is being affected by the change, what kind of
indicators might be useful to consider in relation to different stakeholders, recognising that there are not
always clear boundaries among the different stakeholders affected and that over time some stakeholders
maybe affected in different degrees.
7. Students 84% of respondents said digi
collections are embedded in
courses – 16% don’t know
Higher attainment Digital literacy Employment opportunities
“all students using manuscripts students trialling different searches- “great to work with Zandra, with a real
in an English language course information seeking skills design team… getting to know what it
got first-class degrees” could be like in the industry”
slide 7
8. [Notes on slide 7]
Responses to the survey highlighted that the great majority of collections that have been digitised or clustered are
now embedded in courses. This ranges from being embedded in courses within the institution that created the
digital collections (the majority of cases), to being part of courses within other institutions in the UK, with some
embedded within courses internationally. It was clear that that respondents were not always aware of the extent
to which collections were embedded, so instances of collections being embedded into courses could actually be
greater.
Higher attainment: quote from lecturer at the University of Manchester. The John Rylands Library digitised
medieval manuscripts as part of the “In the begynning” project http://bit.ly/RSVJJ8 . The collection is delivered
through the Library’s digital collections platform http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/Man4MedievalVC~4~4
Other respondents to the survey also mentioned that students achieved better quality results when engaging with
digitised content from special collections, eg resources such as HISTPOP (Historical Online Population Reports)
http://www.histpop.org and STEM WISHEES (STEM Writing in Schools Higher Education and Employment Settings)
http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/wishees
Students attainments level seems a useful indicator of the positive change that a digital resource can bring about.
Digital literacy: interaction with digital collections also contributes to developing digital literacy skills. The
“Connected Histories” project http://www.connectedhistories.org/ set up a students placement and as part of
their work students had to blog http://connectedhistories.tumblr.com/ about their use of the collection. The
researchers of tomorrow’s report highlighted how researchers need more training in information seeking skills
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/11/researchers-of-tomorrow-report.
Employment opportunities: a number of projects have offered students paid work placements, which have
provided them with opportunities to increase their technical knowledge and skills and also get a flavour for what
it means to work in a particular industry. The quote on the slide is from a video (http://bit.ly/zandravideo)
produced by the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection project
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/ZandraRhodes.aspx which
features students working in the studio of fashion designer Zandra Rhodes to help digitise her collection of
garments and sketches.
9. Researchers
Research outputs, New research methods Research funding
citations
“We’re discovering research GrassPortal secured EC
questions that we didn’t have funding of 350 Euros to
“…19th C pamphlets
when we started” Prof Peter work on sustainable
collection had around 51,800
Ainsworth development of perennial
PDF downloads and over 4,380
grasses as biofuel crop.
citation captures” Dr Julian Ball
10. [Notes on slide 9]
Direct impact on research was more difficult to establish, there was less data available from respondents, and
perhaps it’s more difficult to identify indicators. Traditional indicators such as published articles and
citations presented some problems, eg: the long lead time for papers to be published (some projects had
launched relatively recently and wouldn’t expect to have made an impact on research publications yet);
digital resources don’t always offer downloadable citations making it difficult to track citations at a later
stage; academics still tend to cite the paper-based version of a resource even if they consult the digital
version; some projects simply did not have that information because they never sought to track it.
Research outputs: these figures which refer to the JISC-funded 19th C Pamphlets projects based at the
University of Southampton were published in the Guardian Higher Education Network blog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/09/university-of-southampton-
library-digitising-resources (not the JISC survey). The collection is delivered via JSTOR
http://about.jstor.org/content/19th-century-british-pamphlets.
New research methods: The availability of large corpuses of digital data allows more sophisticated ways of
interrogating such data and conducting research than previously possible, as Prof Peter Ainsworth states in
One Culture, CLIR, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151/pub151.pdf p 22, the evaluation report for
phase one of the Digging into Data challenges programme, which JISC supported with other partners
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/diggingintodata.aspx.
Research funding: a number of respondents revealed that the experience gained and outputs created though
their digitisation/content project provided the basis for obtaining further funding for other research projects,
whether at national or international level. One example of this is the GrassPortal project
http://www.grassportal.org, University of Sheffield.
11. Institutions
90% developed a
more strategic
approach to digi
Skills, strategy and Increasing profile Income and savings
infrastructure 84% said project enabled to increase 72% attracted further project
89% said project allowed inst profile of own collection/institution. funding. British Library Sound
to increase capacity and Uni of Bradford attracted American Archive calculated an
infrastructure to create and MA students thanks to their profile estimated saving to the
sustain digitised content in 3D digitisation of human remains HE sector of about £756,000
slide 11
12. [Notes on slide 11]
Projects involving digitisation of content and related activities bring benefits not only to primary users of that
content but also to institutions at strategic level and to the whole of the HE sector, and beyond.
Skills, strategy and infrastructures
89% of respondents to the survey said that through JISC funding their team/institution increased its digital
capacity and infrastructure so that it is now in a better position to create and sustain digital content in the future.
76% of respondents also felt working on the project had a positive impact on relationships within their institution
such as through collaborative working or working more effectively.
95% of respondents said the funding allowed the team/Principal Investigator to increase their knowledge and
skills in creation and management of digitised content.
Increasing profile
Institutions increased their profile through various means, including local and national press coverage,
conference presentations, social media and dissemination activities within their own interest area/networks.
Profile raising activities generated increased use of collections and requests to use digitised items commercially,
thus leading to income streams; new partnerships; project/institution being held as example of good practice in a
specific area; institutions using digitised collection as a way of showcasing a USP in international recruitment.
The Digitised Diseases project http://barc.sls.brad.ac.uk/3dbones/ at the University of Bradford has been able to
attract international students after building up an international reputation for their work on 3D digitisation of
human remains.
Income and savings
Only a minority of projects have developed income streams from their collection, with the majority never setting
up to do this. However, many respondents highlighted how JISC funding contributed to achieving efficiencies
through internal cost savings, and that other types of non-financial benefits were achieved . Reduced costs to
users for consulting digitised material was also mentioned as part of “financial benefits”.
For example, the British Library Sound Archive http://sounds.bl.uk/: digitised 42,000 fully documented sound
recording files. Based on institutional fees for paid subscription archives, estimated value is £2700 x 280
institutions = £756,000 p.a.
13. Communities
Widening participation Open innovation Best practice
89% of respondents said project Crowdsourcing employed as The Great War Archive model
allowed them to develop partnerships digitisation and research was replicated nationally and
with institutions/organisations methodology. Old Weather internationally by Europeana
that benefited their own institution project :1m log book
pages transcribed, 28k volunteers
slide 13
14. [Notes on slide 13]
Digitisation and digital content creation/curation activities provide opportunities for institutions to deliver
their business and community engagement agenda in innovative ways often through partnerships within and
outside the HE sector, including private organisations.
Widening participation: 89% of respondents to the survey said that their project allowed them to develop
partnerships with other institutions/organisations that benefited their institution. 89% also felt that the
projects allowed them to build, or further develop, new partnerships with academics and researchers.
Projects within the JISC Developing community content programme
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/communitycontent.aspx and the eContent
programme 2011, Strand B: developing community collections
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx have deliberately engaged with
communities outside of the Higher Education sector. The benefits identified by these projects include:
strengthening strategic links between HE institutions and local communities; access to special collections
outside of the HE sector; more digitisation of content or enhancing existing digital content; skills
development and exchange; mutual promotional opportunities. (Screen grab from World of Kays project
http://www.worldofkays.org/)
Open innovation: the Old Weather project http://www.oldweather.org/ produced a digital interface to engage
volunteers from the general public to transcribe WW1 Royal Navy ships’ logs to aid scientists in research on
climate change. Scientists alone could have never done this type of work. The project terminated recently but
as in previous projects run by the same team, it is likely that the team will produced scientific papers co-
authored with citizens who contributed to the transcription of the log books.
Best practice: a useful indicator of impact is the degree to which approaches developed by one project are
adopted by others within or outside the sector. The model for collecting and digitising items belonging to the
general public through roadshows which was developed by the Great War Archive
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/ was emulated by Europeana http://www.europeana1914-
1918.eu/en resulting in collection days gathering WW1 related material being held across Europe.
15. Next step
The JISC Content team is analysing the results of the survey in a
more comprehensive way.
Once analysis is complete we will publish a fuller report on the
survey results.
The findings of the survey will feed into future JISC activity in the
area of digitisation and content and impact assessment more
generally.
slide 15
16. Credits
All images are web site screen grabs apart form:
Slide 9, from left to right:
Image 1: ChemConnector http://www.flickr.com/photos/26814164@N05/6003727019/ -
Image2: University of Maryland: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umdnews/5985718936
Image3: Dave Gray: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/3210489602/ -
Slide 11: from left to right :
Image 1: Earth Infrastructures http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthinfrastructure/6004632877/
Apart from images on slides 9 and 11
slide 16
Editor's Notes
The content of these slides (or better, the great majority of it) derives from an initial analysis of the results of a survey the JISC Content team circulated among previously funded projects (since 2007) in the areas of digitisation and content, see all projects herehttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation. The survey aimed to find out more about how digitised collections were being used and the impact such projects have had on their hosting institutions and more broadly.
The JISC Content team developed the Toolkit for the Impact of Scholarly Digitised Resources (TIDSR) http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsrto provide some guidance to projects and their institutions on the range of qualitative and quantitative methods that can be used to gather data about usage and impact of digitised resources. The toolkit also contains case studies, reports, and a knowledge base with articles. This is now embedded within the JISC digitisation and content programmes. Many respondents to the survey used the approaches suggested in the toolkit to measure usage and impact. The survey was circulated to 103 projects and 62 responses were received. These slides contain only some high level findings. We are conducting a more thorough interpretation of the results which we plan to make available as soon as possible.
The survey asked both quantitative and qualitative questions about the digital collections that had been created or enhanced, how these collections were being used and what impact the JISC-funded work had had within institutions. As expected, a number of respondents just didn’t always have the information requested because they hadn’t necessarily been capturing the data, or because it wasn’t available to them (eg in the case of commercial partnerships). So, a disclaimer: these “stories” of impact represent only a partial picture, but one which however reveals some initial indicative patterns of impact and areas where concrete positive change has been identified and which we could pursue. We also looked at impact from the point of view of who is being affected by the change, what kind of indicators might be useful to consider in relation to different stakeholders, recognising that there are not always clear boundaries among the different stakeholders affected and that over time some stakeholders maybe affected in different degrees.
Responses to the survey highlighted that the great majority of collections that have been digitised or clustered are now embedded in courses. This ranges from being embedded in courses within the institution that created the digital collections (the majority of cases), to being part of courses within other institutions in the UK, with some embedded within courses internationally. It was clear that that respondents were not always aware of the extent to which collections were embedded, so instances of collections being embedded into courses could actually be greater.Higher attainment: quote from lecturer at the University of Manchester. The John Rylands Library digitised medieval manuscripts as part of the “In the begynning” project http://bit.ly/RSVJJ8 . The collection is delivered through the Library’s digital collections platform http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/Man4MedievalVC~4~4Other respondents to the survey also mentioned that students achieved better quality results when engaging with digitised content from special collections, eg resources such as HISTPOP (Historical Online Population Reports) http://www.histpop.org and STEM WISHEES (STEM Writing in Schools Higher Education and Employment Settings) http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/wisheesStudents attainments level seems a useful indicator of the positive change that a digital resource can bring about.Digital literacy: interaction with digital collections also contributes to developing digital literacy skills. The “Connected Histories” project http://www.connectedhistories.org/set up a students placement and as part of their work students had to blog http://connectedhistories.tumblr.com/ about their use of the collection. The researchers of tomorrow’s report highlighted how researchers need more training in information seeking skills http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/11/researchers-of-tomorrow-report.Employment opportunities: a number of projects have offered students paid work placements, which have provided them with opportunities to increase their technical knowledge and skills and also get a flavour for what it means to work in a particular industry. The quote on the slide is from a video (http://bit.ly/zandravideo) produced by the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection project http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/ZandraRhodes.aspxwhich features students working in the studio of fashion designer Zandra Rhodes to help digitise her collection of garments and sketches.
Direct impact on research was more difficult to establish, there was less data available from respondents, and perhaps it’s more difficult to identify indicators. Traditional indicators such as published articles and citations presented some problems, eg: the long lead time for papers to be published (some projects had launched relatively recently and wouldn’t expect to have made an impact on research publications yet); digital resources don’t always offer downloadable citations making it difficult to track citations at a later stage; academics still tend to cite the paper-based version of a resource even if they consult the digital version; some projects simply did not have that information because they never sought to track it. Research outputs: these figures which refer to the JISC-funded 19th C Pamphlets projects based at the University of Southampton were published in the Guardian Higher Education Network blog http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/09/university-of-southampton-library-digitising-resources (not the JISC survey). The collection is delivered via JSTOR http://about.jstor.org/content/19th-century-british-pamphlets.New research methods: The availability of large corpuses of digital data allows more sophisticated ways of interrogating such data and conducting research than previously possible, as Prof Peter Ainsworth states in One Culture, CLIR, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151/pub151.pdf p 22, the evaluation report for phase one of the Digging into Data challenges programme, which JISC supported with other partners http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/diggingintodata.aspx.Research funding: a number of respondents revealed that the experience gained and outputs created though their digitisation/content project provided the basis for obtaining further funding for other research projects, whether at national or international level. One example of this is the GrassPortal project http://www.grassportal.org, University of Sheffield.
Projects involving digitisation of content and related activities bring benefits not only to primary users of that content but also to institutions at strategic level and to the whole of the HE sector, and beyond. Skills, strategy and infrastructures89% of respondents to the survey said that through JISC funding their team/institution increased its digital capacity and infrastructure so that it is now in a better position to create and sustain digital content in the future. 76% of respondents also felt working on the project had a positive impact on relationships within their institution such as through collaborative working or working more effectively.95% of respondents said the funding allowed the team/Principal Investigator to increase their knowledge and skills in creation and management of digitised content.Increasing profileInstitutions increased their profile through various means, including local and national press coverage, conference presentations, social media and dissemination activities within their own interest area/networks. Profile raising activities generated increased use of collections and requests to use digitised items commercially, thus leading to income streams; new partnerships; project/institution being held as example of good practice in a specific area; institutions using digitised collection as a way of showcasing a USP in international recruitment.The Digitised Diseases project http://barc.sls.brad.ac.uk/3dbones/ at the University of Bradford has been able to attract international students after building up an international reputation for their work on 3D digitisation of human remains.Income and savingsOnly a minority of projects have developed income streams from their collection, with the majority never setting up to do this. However, many respondents highlighted how JISC funding contributed to achieving efficiencies through internal cost savings, and that other types of non-financial benefits were achieved . Reduced costs to users for consulting digitised material was also mentioned as part of “financial benefits”. For example, the British Library Sound Archive http://sounds.bl.uk/: digitised 42,000 fully documented sound recording files. Estimated 12m page views since 2007. Based on institutional fees for paid subscription archives, estimated value is £2700 x 280 institutions = £756,000 p.a.Earth Town Construction Update as on 30th July 2011http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthinfrastructure/6004632877/
Digitisation and digital content creation/curation activities provide opportunities for institutions to deliver their business and community engagement agenda in innovative ways often through partnerships within and outside the HE sector, including private organisations. Widening participation: 89% of respondents to the survey said that their project allowed them to develop partnerships with other institutions/organisations that benefited their institution. 89% also felt that the projects allowed them to build, or further develop, new partnerships with academics and researchers.Projects within the JISC Developing community content programme http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/communitycontent.aspx and the eContentprogramme 2011, Strand B: developing community collections http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx have deliberately engaged with communities outside of the Higher Education sector. The benefits identified by these projects include: strengthening strategic links between HE institutions and local communities; access to special collections outside of the HE sector; more digitisation of content or enhancing existing digital content; skills development and exchange; mutual promotional opportunities. (Screen grab from World of Kays project http://www.worldofkays.org/)Open innovation: the Old Weather project http://www.oldweather.org/produced a digital interface to engage volunteers from the general public to transcribe WW1 Royal Navy ships’ logs to aid scientists in research on climate change. Scientists alone could have never done this type of work. The project terminated recently but as in previous projects run by the same team, it is likely that the team will produced scientific papers co-authored with citizens who contributed to the transcription of the log books. Best practice: a useful indicator of impact is the degree to which approaches developed by one project are adopted by others within or outside the sector. The model for collecting and digitising items belonging to the general public through roadshaws which was developed by the Great War Archive http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/was emulated by Europeanahttp://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en resulting in collection days gathering WW1 related material being held across Europe.