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Supporting digitisation in the UK: JISC current activities and future plans

RLUK Conference 2008, Leeds

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

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Supporting digitisation in the UK:

JISC current activities and future plans

Paola Marchionni Digitisation Programme Manager [email protected]

RLUK conference, Leeds, 23 October 2008

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Outline

n  About JISC and Content team

n  Digitisation programme

n  Existing challenges

n  Current activities and future plans

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About Us n  JISC’s strategic themes:

–  Network; Information Environment; Access management; e-Learning; e-Resources; e-Research; e-Administration; and Business and community engagement

n  Broad funding remit: ICT infrastructure, advisory services, programmes and projects

n  Content team: –  Digitisation Programme –  Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) –  Links with other programmes, services and

activities, eg coordination with JISC Collections in licencing of content

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Digitisation Programme n  Digitisation Phase 1

–  2004-07, 6 projects, c. £6m

n  Digitisation Phase 2 –  2007-09, 16 projects, c. £12m –  Large scale digitisation –  Different sources of funding within

JISC

n  Enriching digital resources –  2008-09, 25 projects, c. £1.9m –  Small scale digitisation and

enhancement of current e-resources

n  Wide range in skills and experience and size of projects

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Collections

n  Collections spanning five centuries of social, political, economic and cultural history in the UK

n  Variety of formats

n  Variety of institutions and partnerships

n  Materials difficult to access, fragile and of educational value

n  Relevant to curricula and research interests

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Outcomes and achievements n  Authoritative content, contextualisation and critical

mass –  Welsh journals; Irish resources; newspapers…

n  Usable and re-usable resources –  Licences and IPR framework

n  Range of sustainability models –  Public private partnership; use of existing

infrastructures; embedding in institutional strategy

n  User engagement –  First World War Poetry Archive; Cabinet papers

n  Standards based –  Digital capture, description and preservation

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Strategic Content Alliance

n  Strategic Content Alliance (SCA)

n  Aims to build a common information environment underpinned by a UK e-Content Framework of principles and good practices

n  Reducing barriers to publicly funded e-content that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of e-content

n  Pan-UK cross sector initiative funded by: JISC; BBC; British Library; Becta; NHS; MLA; EPSRC

n  Work on: Audience analysis; Interoperability; Standards, IPR, Business models,

–  eg report on Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources

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Existing challenges n  Existing challenges within the wider

digitisation landscape: –  A lot can be digitised, but how do we

know what users want? (JISC survey) –  A lot has been digitised, but how do we

maximise use and awareness? (LAIRAH study)

–  Users might come, but how do we know what impact a resource has?

–  A lot out there, but will it still be there tomorrow? Are resources sustainable? Often project-based approach (OCLC report, Shifting Gears)

n  Challenges also highlighted at the JISC Digitisation Conference 2007

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Current activities

n  Prioritising Digitisation: Establishing Users’ Needs for Digitised Content in UK HE Institutions

n  More strategic and focused approach to digitisation to counter-act the “drop-in-the-ocean” effect

n  University of Strathclyde and Manchester Metropolitan University (DiSCMap project)

n  Co-funded by JISC and RIN

n  Collaboration with RLUK

n  Findings available from Spring 2009

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Current activities n  Usage and Impact Study of JISC-funded Phase 1

Digitisation projects and Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources

n  Need to assess usage of digital resources and useful metrics to measure their impact

n  Oxford Internet Institute

n  Quantitative and Qualitative Measures

n  Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (metrics, processes, tools)

n  Dissemination Spring 2009

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Future Funding 2009-2011

n  Collection Enhancement: improving usage –  Increasing use and improving usability of existing digital

content –  Development of finding aids/metadata – new ways –  Enhancement of interfaces –  Embedding in teaching and learning –  Promotion and marketing of resources –  Eg: Enriching the First World War Poetry Archive (Enriching Digital Resource programme)

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Future Funding 2009-2011

n  Clustering and Theming: improving access –  Tackling the “silo” effect: bringing together and presenting

resources on the basis of academic subject, chronological periods, themes of interest (e.g. 19th Century, Parliament).

–  This clustering can be done on the basis of “marketing” or “infrastructure” e.g. “portals” based within academic settings

–  Eg: Anglo-Saxon Cluster (Enriching Digital Resource programme)

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Future Funding 2009-2011

n  Institutional Skills and Strategies: sustaining content –  Support for the development of institutional capacity,

infrastructures and skills, as well as policy and strategy development, for the creation and management of high quality digital collections

–  Funding at institutional level and across institutions –  Eg: VERsatile DIgitisation framework project, VERDI (British Cartoon Archive, Enriching Digital Resource programme)

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In Conclusion… n  Current and future investment in:

–  Finding out more about users’ needs

–  Finding out more about impact of resources

–  Maximising the benefits of past investments (collections enhancement, clustering and theming)

–  Supporting institutions in embedding digitisation into current practices

n  Your feedback welcome…