DIGIPEDIA: The Story So Far

AGENDA1. Strategic Content Alliance2. Digipedia Prototype3. Digipedia Pilot Service

Common Information Environment

2003-07 Bonding and ground breaking Small-scale demonstrators Considerable debate about possibilities Moving towards a more mature approach to co-operation

BBCBectaBritish LibraryJISCMLANHS – National e-Library for Health

Strategic Content Alliance

2007 Full-time team at JISC

The MISSION:

“…the full range of online content needs to be made available to all, quickly, easily and in a form appropriate to individuals' needs.”

“…without much greater common working our respective contributions in providing access to new digital resources will be limited to individual branded networks.”

2007-2009 Deliverables

Orphan works

Audience research

Intellectual property rights

Sustainability and business models

Synthesis to create a UK e-content framework for knowledge, learning and research

The Digital Content Framework

To achieve the best possible return on investment, avoidance of duplication of effort, and to empower the e-citizen, key stakeholders need to be brought together to work towards a common set of principles and guidelines for best practice that will provide a common policy framework for online content activities across the domains of lifelong learning and teaching, research, and cultural heritage.

CONCEPTUAL SCOPE MODEL

2009: Digipedia Prototype

Main purposes

Link authoritative information

Focus for expert advice and guidance

Plain English narrative

Text mining

Innovative browsing

Access for a broad audience

Audience

Policy makers

Public sector content creators

Non-for-profit content creators

Digital Lifecycle highway code

Common standards

Authoritative guidance, from basic to advanced

Resource sharing, partnerships

Route planner to convergence

Who is doing what?

Policy conversations

Partnership and sustainability

Relevance to widest possible audience

Advocacy resource

Compendium of achievements

Exemplars of public value

Digital content and strategic policy priorities

Practical tools and methods

Knowledge exchange

Managed two-way engagement

Linking people together

Conversations, new ideas

Communities of interest

Simple, but authoritative

Provides practical answers

Trusted, quality advice

One-stop shop

Easy to use

Digital Content Lifecycle

Why MediaWiki?

World’s leading open source wiki software

Robust platform

Simple, low maintenance

Wide range of tested extensions Ingestion, export, semantic tools, user interfaces

Constant innovation/development (chance to contribute)

Digipedia: Pilot Service

12 month project (five months in)

Easy to use, authoritative, up-to-date, insightful view on the management of the digital content lifecycle

Build community of those working towards ‘good practice’ in digital content provision

Communications and dissemination plan

Developing a business plan for sustainability with JISC and other Alliance partners

Additional Functionality

User ranking of content

Embedding content in other services

Important tagged content from other services

FAQs and discussion fora

Multimedia resources

Step-by-step how to guides

(MediaWiki, but not Wikipedia)

Where are we up to?

v1.6 demonstration of functionality and federated content search

Partnership with Collections Trust to test semantic links

How to build a cost-effective business model

Development profile that will mould a comprehensive knowledge based across a range of agencies – convergence?

Testing the embedding of service into other websites (widget transplant)

Knowledge base

Edited contentTags in headersSelected links to build KB

Defragmention in a fragmented landscape of digital content

THANK YOU

Susi Woodhouse

cbatt@mac.com