Education, content and encyclopaedia britannica Where Britannica has come from Current strategy,...
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education, content and encyclopaedia britannica Where Britannica has come from Current strategy, thoughts and ethos Where Britannica is going
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education, content and encyclopaedia britannica
Where Britannica has come from
Current strategy, thoughts and ethos
Where Britannica is going
a little history...
1768 and all that.240 years of content creation
Many repository values still valid today
A digital worldBritannica has been available in a digital format since the early 1980’s
Early adopter of CD based content delivery
An online worldWorld’s first online Encyclopaedia
Only constantly updated commercial encyclopaedic repository
current thoughts, strategy and ethos
DeliveryWeb access – Through Britannica’s own web front end
Learning Platform - Integrated searching from within a learning platform
Portal – Authenticated access to Britannica’s web front end
Push technology – Britannica content ‘pushed’ to the user
Social Networking – e-safe resources to educational social networking
Mobile – personalised learning
E-book – supporting and additional materials
Interactive Whiteboard – Multi-media resources
Disaggregated e-commerce – Pay per asset model
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SolutionsSingle sign-on – Shibboleth or Open Athens comlience
Passthrough Authentication – Authentication by Learning Platform
Opensearch API – Integrated application searching of Britannica
Federated searching – Searching Britannica across multiple repositories
No metadata taxonomy – Keyword search allows more accurate searching
Platform agnostic – No restriction to particular platform for access
current thoughts, strategy and ethosCopyright
Simple model
Actively encourage extraction and repurposing Teachers and pupils can extract content from the repository and reuse
in lessons, homework etc.
But only for educational needs The restriction is that it used within an educational environment and
not for commercial gain without permission from Britannica Any external use, Britannica is cited as the source
No demand of content return at end of contract Britannica will not require the return of any repurposed content at the
end of a subscription or contract No farming or bulk extraction of content allowed.
what's next..?An opportunity
New generation of Britannica New GUI
Open publishing system Users can submit their own content into repository Editorial control of published content
Content generation toolset Integrated tools to create and store user generated content
Further integration Export content in different formats, SCORM, PDF, etc.
encyclopaedia britannica education
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