Navigating a sea of stories: new online resources from the JISC Digitisation programme

Navigating a sea of stories…

Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 1

Navigating a sea of stories:new online resources from the JISC

Digitisation programme

www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research

© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 2008: John Johnson Collection

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Paola Marchionni

JISC Digitisation Programme Manager

[email protected]

Open University

20 February 2009



New online resources

Some video clips on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/jiscmedia

Newsfilm Online WW1 Poetry Digital Archive

British Cartoons Archive Cabinet Papers: 1915-1978

John Johnson Collection

and more to come…



First World War Poetry Digital Archive

www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit - Open access

Collections: search by poets, media, keyword

Education section– Tutorials (KS1 to undergraduate): can be used as course supplement,

further reading, teaching aids – Pathways: annotated trails with archive material, all level, teachers

can add new ones, (download, print, zoom, see catalogue record…)– Resources packs (schools)– Podcasts

The Great War Archive



Cabinet Papers: 1915-1978

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ - Open access

Thematic approach– Contextualisation packages about UK and the world, economy,

society and welfare linked to cabinet papers

Writing frame – Interactive writing tool to support the use and investigation of historical

primary sources in a structured way

Interactive maps– Links to cabinet papers and downloadable information



Newsfilm Online

www.nfo.ac.uk – Authentication required

Collections searchable by decade and keywords

E-learning framework, by Simon Atkinson and Kevin Burden – Based on two axis: spaces (eg small lecture theatre) and learning

design (empathy, conceptualisation, analogy, authoring etc…)– Pedagogical exemplars (different approaches to using videos)– Case studies, eg Skipton College on moral panic through the decades

Technical tutorials – Practical guidance on using, downloading, editing video clips



Navigating a sea of stories What can you do with all

these resources?

Enhancing teaching and learning

Use different and primary sources to explore a topic

Interdisciplinary studies

Make research quicker

Explore new links and research questions

Download

Include in assignments and presentations

Mss of poem “Dulce et Decorum est”, Wilfred Owen

War cabinet document

WW1 cocoa advert



What is JISC? What is JISC and what does it do?

– Supports the use of ICT in research, teaching and learning

– Focus on post-16 and HE– Funds innovative projects in: e-

resources, e-learning, e-research, information environment etc…

– Provides support, guidance and advice to institutions through its services, eg JISC Digital Media, JISC Legal, InfoNet, Janet etc…

– Funded by UK post-16 and HE funding councils



Digitisation programme Digitisation programme:

– Building sustainable and authoritative e-resources for the benefit of UK teaching, learning and research

Started in 2004, 6 projects, £10m

Phase 2, 2007-09, 16 new projects, £12m

Enriching Digital resources, 2008-09, 25 projects, £2m

Variety of collections and media: sound recordings, British newspapers, medical journals, radio and TV programmes, parliamentary papers, cartoons, poetry, Irish and Welsh journals and monographs, maps, theatre and entertainment…



Some key issues

Some key issues for digitisation projects and the experience of the JISC Digitisation programme

What should I digitise? Content selection

Which metadata schema should I use?

Who does the content belong to and what do I want to do with it? Licencing and IPR

Who is the collection for and how do I engage users?

Who and how will maintain the resource? Sustainability



Content selection

What should I digitise?– Current and potential use of a collection and users needs– Alignment with teaching and research priorities– Links with the curriculum– Alignment with Institution’s content

development/digitisation strategy, if in place– Potential for interdisciplinarity, increased use– Wide appeal and interest– IPR and preservation issues– Set up an Advisory board of subject specialists



Content selection Freeze Frame

– 20,000 images recording polar exploration

– Project identified courses and curricula where project could have impact

– University – Geology, Biology, Anthropology, etc.

– Colleges and Schools – Art and Design, History, Geography etc.

– Construction of learning work packages built into project plan

JISC DiSCMap Study on priority collections for digitisation



Metadata

Which metadata schema should I use?– Can be time consuming to produce, especially human created

ones – Decide what information needs to be recorded for the institution

and for the users– Investigate existing metadata provision – Available resources, staff, time, budget, infrastructure– Have a plan B in case you need to re-allocate resources towards

metadata creation – Devise metadata approach and strategy from the beginning and

document– Importance of using metadata standards adopted by your

community – Can your users help? Self-tagging



Metadata Commonly used metadata schema by JISC projects:

– Dublin Core, ISAD(G), MARC, MODS, GIS, TEI, METS, PREMIS

National Library of Wales– 400,000 pages from 19th and 20th journals on

Welsh history, culture and society– Use TEI to catalogue parts of journals

Independent Radio News Archive/LBC– 3000 hours of audio recording from Britain’s first

commercial radio– Example of dealing with legacy metadata



Content licencing Who does the content belong to

and what do I want to do with it? Two sides of the same coin:

– Who owns copyright of the content to be digitised?

– What will users be able to do with it?

Some issue to consider:– Copyright clearance is a very time-

consuming process– It can be expensive – Be clear about what you need to licence

content for, ie what users can do – Variety of copyright layers in some type of

materials– Orphan works: keep a due diligence file– Always seek legal advice– Exercise in risk assessment

Dramatic works

Text-based works

Dramatic works

Films

MusicBroadcast

Sound recordings

Typographic works

Categories of works protected by

copyright



Content licencing JISC Model licence

– UK HE and FE sector – for the purpose of education…– eg copying, downloading, inclusion in course packs, assignments,

presentation etc

JISC Collections Open Educational Content Licence (for open access resources)

– Open access non commercial educational purposes only licence– Permitted usage is explicitly much broader than in Creative Commons

licences

Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) IPR toolkit (out March 2009): guidance papers and practical tool



User engagement

Who is the collection for and how do I engage users?– Be clear about core user group/s and current and potential use

of the collection – Set up advisory group of subject specialists and users group– Find out more about users requirements (focus groups,

surveys)– Invest time in usability testing– Create an engaging and interactive web site– Tell your users about your resource, be “findable” (expose your

metadata widely, exploit social networking tools)– Find out how users are using your resource - Impact



User engagement First World War Poetry Archive

– The Great War archive: galvanising communities out there

– On Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia

Pre-Raphaelite resource– 3000 images of works by Pre-Raphaelite

painters and related resources– Audience research on usefulness of

Web2.0 tools on scholarly resources

JISC Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (out Apr 2009)

SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit



Sustainability

Who and how will maintain the resource?– Problem of “project-based” funding model for many

digitisation projects– Tension between sustainability and open access:

somebody has to pay– Ideally digitisation should be embedded into institutional

strategies, practices, processes and infrastructure– Variety of sustainability models (commercial partnership,

subscription, ads, institutional support, use of existing infrastructure…)



Sustainability John Johnson Collection

– 65,000 images of printed ephemera– Partnership between the Bodleian

Library and ProQuest– Free to UK HE, FE and public libraries,

subscription abroad

Historic Boundaries of Britain– Historical boundaries maps– Google ads

19th Century Pamphlets– 23,000 pamphlets – Delivery by JSTOR



Some useful resources JISC Digitisation programme and projects: www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation

JISC Digitisation Blog: http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/

Content Selection– DiSCMap project, Digitisation in Special Collections: Mapping,

Assessment, Prioritisation http://discmap.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

Metadata– JISC Digital Media (ex-TASI) http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/ – JISC standards catalogue

http://standards.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/Home.phtml– UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/metadata/ – SCA Standards report (out Mar 09) see SCA blog http://

sca.jiscinvolve.org/



Some useful resources IPR

– JISC Collections Open Educational Content Licence http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/jisc_collections_open_educational_user_licence_v1.0.doc

– Web2Rights toolkit http://www.web2rights.org.uk/diagnostic.html– SCA IPR toolkit (out Mar 09), see SCA blog http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/

User engagement – Pre-Raphaelite audience research on Web2.0

http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/07/is-academia-ready-for-web-20/

– SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2009/02/05/download-audience-analysis-toolkit (more in March 09)

– Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (out Apr 09) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51

– The ideal digital humanities project checklist, LAIRAH study http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/circah/lairah/features/



Some useful resources

Sustainability– SCA/Ithaka report on Sustainability and Business Models

http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/06/sca_ithaka_sustainability_report-final.pdf



Navigating a sea of stories… First World War Poetry Digital Archive – open access

– http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

Cabinet Papers 1915-1978 – open access– http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/

The John Johnson Collection - authentication– http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk

British Cartoon Archive – open access– http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/

Newsfilm Online - authentication– http://www.nfo.ac.uk/

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