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Presenter or main title… Session Title or subtitle… JISC Content Programme Meeting 30th March 2011 Catherine Grout: JISC Director e-Content
Presenter or main title…
Session Title or subtitle…JISC Content Programme Meeting30th March 2011
Catherine Grout: JISC Director e-Content
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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Same argument as for creating new content
Central investment (plus)
Cascade model
Centres of Expertise
Business investment
Transfer within communities
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Infrastructure/Skills
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, digital content as the engine of the economy etc)
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, Wellcome Trust, ACE, TNA.. Variety of others (through Strategic Content Alliance)
A lot of exciting work around opening up archives and joining up content and events.. BBC Northern Irelandthe 1914-18 commemoration partnership work
UK Collections Strategy?
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Collections Strategy
We have some high level policies and guiding principles
JISC Digitisation Strategy – JISC Collections - policies
No UK level strategy or policy exists (governing future content creation/usage)
Who should be in charge of this?
What would it most usefully contain?
Opportunity to articulate how the UK university offer fits within the broader public sector
The UK issue? (need to start somewhere).
The Web Ecology of Content
www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance | Slide 810 April 2023
RSS
A campaign waged on multiple fronts
JISC and Content Programmes are….
Working with partners in the public and private sector to build collections and to call for an overall strategy (SCA….)
Working out how to prioritise new investment in content
Enhancing existing content (interoperability, improving user experience, finding new business models)
Creating content (in innovative ways)
Building communities around content (for social, sustainability reasons)
Exploring requirements for skills, infrastructure etc (and sharing these)
Enhancing the student experience
Quality and efficiency of research
Joining up systems and improving services
Cost and efficiency savings
JISC has to consider (and work out) how Digital Content Programmes continue help address these agendas
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Top concerns within the Sector
Understanding the role of digital collections in the life of the university and its communications and marketing
Shifting the role of the library to allow more investment in digital content
The role of user generated as opposed to curated content
The “opportunity-cost” for collaboration with the commercial sector (and other partners)… “Digital entrepreneurship”
Collaboration and competition
Degrees of open-ness (sustainability and revenue…)
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Hot issues for digital content?
