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Co-Curate: working with schools and communities to add value to Open collections
Simon Cotterill *
Martyn Hudson *
Kat Lloyd *
James Outterside *
John Peterson *
John Coburn +
Ulrike Thomas *
Lucy Tiplady *
Phil Robinson %
Phil Heslop *
* Newcastle University + Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums % George Stephenson High School
https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/
Overview
• Introduction / Background
• Demonstration
• Outcomes
• Discussion
Aims of this paper: provide an overview of use of Open collections in both formal and informal educational contexts in Co-Curate and to share initial findings in relation to stakeholders knowledge and perceptions of both using and contributing Open licensed materials.
Introduction
• Cross-disciplinary initiative involving Newcastle University and partner organisations
• Working with schools and community groups in the North of England
• 18 month project
• Funded by AHRC - Digital Transformations in Community Research Co-Production programme
• Builds on previous work– Arts & Cultures: Northumbrian Exchanges
– Education
– LTSU: dynamic learning maps & OER projects
RIDLR & SupOERGlue (2 x JISC funded OER Rapid Innovation projects)
Return Paradata
LR Node
DLM
Harvest OERs /Paradata
PublishOER (HEA/JISC UKOER Phase 3 project)
Technologies - backgroundDynamic Learning Mapshttps://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk/
Killingworth Flats Park 1970's Kenton Comprehensive School
George StephensonThe Hoppings
Wallsend Four!
Roy's Bakery, Tynemouth Friends with NUFC football player
Top 10 most frequently viewed media (Jan to March 13th, 2015)
George Stephenson
Settlingstones Mine
Pathé Video: Miners Dancing
756 media resource views (10.4% of all media views*)*excludes viewing slideshows and thumbnails
Uploaded by community (4)- Students at George Stephenson HS
From Regional Museum/Library Flickr Collections (5)
YouTube video – hand addedby project team (1)
Key:
https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/
Usage Stats - first 11 weeks of 2015
92% of users are from the UK
~85% from the North East region
Period of analysis includeslarge-scale pilot with GSHS starting in January 2015
~40% of comments related to a specific School assignment:
145 comments were made over a 6 month period
Some peer /social conversation
32 new pages
331 tags to topics in Co-Curate
270 new resources added
150 images uploaded137 Creative Commons licensed
13 All Rights Reserved
Community added content and resources
Discussion
• Openly licensed photographs and videos – are these OERs?
– Many do have annotations explaining context and history
– lack of intrinsic paedagogy
– independent learning activities and even unstructured ‘self-organised learning’ (SOLE).
– independent discovery and ‘serendipitous learning’
• Adding value – comments / tags etc.
• Co-Curate raised awareness and understanding of copyright and Open Licenses– Huge issue/interest to community groups– Keen to use Open but cautious to contribute (at first)– Large collections of physical photographs many ‘orphaned’ in
terms of copyright owner being unknown.– Layers of copyright in ‘mashups’
• Risk management – takedown policy• Ethical/legal issues working with children
• Selectivity• Sustainability
Discussion #2
Summary
• The Co-Curate North East project aims to support co-production and co-curation, including use of materials from museum and archive collections mixed with informal community input.
• The process can added value to OA collections; for example the addition of personal narratives to historical photographs adds rich contextual information.
• The tagging and linking between related topics and resources also adds value. The creation of ‘mashups’ can mix content from different collections and can include community added content.
Further information: https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/