Joint Information Systems Committee

Digital Content Partnerships

Introduction

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Catherine Grout: JISC e-Content Director

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The Programme Today

Morning – explain the call and take questions in plenary Lunch time – networking and surgery session Afternoon - examples of partnerships and words of wisdom

from our partners

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The “Big” Vision A coherent, sustainable and

growing UK collection of digital content for lifelong learning and research

– Interoperable, integrated, and embedded within the social, cultural and educational activities of the citizen

– As a true foundation stone for learning and research

– As a nexus for creativity, and a touch stone for investment and entrepreneurial activity

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Partners in the “Big Vision” The JISC shares this aspiration with its Partners across the

UK Public Sector Working closely with the BBC and British Library More from them later…

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Why carry on growing and developing our collections?

Four main arguments – (“Inspiring Research Inspiring Scholarship”)http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/digitisationbenefits.aspx

Education and Research Imperative (quality and efficiency) Economic Imperative People and Communities (big society) Political arguments (open data, race for 2010)

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Some arguments may be even more important post cuts To continue to assert the link between the arts, humanities, social

sciences, and related industries and how they contribute to the economy!

To continue to assert the link between growing our content and the quality of education and research

To show how STEM subjects can also benefit from getting collections on-line

An opportunity to assert the British brand in a compelling way and open up opportunities for physical and virtual tourism

To keep ahead of or at least now keep up with our competitors in other nations

Through identifying new models including partnership - position digital content as part of a sustainable future offer

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The new Environment Time of challenge, re-evaluation, re-

structuring For content rich organisations there is a

particular challenge to understand what role the digital offer may play in future

Shift the balance between public service mandate, sustainability, profitability

Most organisations are having to consider afresh their core offering and how they rise to the challenge of doing more (or at least the same!) with less

Need to look at a range of partnerships and models afresh and what they can achieve

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Sustainable collection building/development This is the overall objective of our two strands in this call Strand A - Enriching via Collaboration

Using collaboration to cluster, repackage and re-present existing digital content.Total funding available £400,000

Strand B - Developing Community Content To develop new content and communities for educational and social purposes.Total funding available £440,000

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Digital Content Taskforce event Event in July this year attended by a variety of HE, cultural

bodies, commerce(http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/08/16/)

We learnt that:– Make the most of what we already have digitised– Genuine desire to work with partners to work towards the big

vision– Desire to link and cluster content, reach existing and new

audiences better. Tell the story!

– Stories about film and sound http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/filmandsound.aspx

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Sustainable collection building/development Working with new partners Exchanging expertise and ideas Sharing services/functions Working to maximise the digital content we already have

(more with less) Increasing its impact/finding new audiences Finding new markets/products Harnessing expertise/effort and the crowd Aligning with government agendas as these emerge

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Potential Business Models for SCALE

A: Centralised Investment/loans - sustained by a variety of income streams

B: Private sector investment in public content (eg in individual or shared library Collections/Services)

C: Crowd sourcing/community generated collections D: Internal resource redeployment (potentially supported by

national shared services) E: Consortial action: (pooling resources/Shared

Services/Centres of Expertise) Lots of techniques to support individual collections.. Advertising,

referral, licensing on, associated products etc.

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Role of JISC As facilitator and catalyst…

– To help with the process of networking organisations and their content

As a provider and funder of digital content…– To help universities make the most of

the content that they hold and to unlock more online

– To get the content we do have out to our users and achieve impact

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Thank you for listening.. Catherine Grout JISC e-content Director (c.grout@jisc.ac.uk)

JISC Content Portalhttp://www.jisc-content.ac.uk