Working with JISC

JISC eContent Programme meeting

Joint Information Systems Committee JISC eContent programme meeting | 14-15 Oct 2009 | Slide 1

JISC eContent Programme meeting Oxford, 29-30 March 2011

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

Great Expectations,

or how to remain friends (with JISC) after a JISC project

Paola Marchionni

JISC Digitisation Programme Manager

[email protected]


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We’re all in the same boat

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

© 2008 ProQuest LLC



Transparency and openness



We don’t want to end up like this…

National Archive of the Netherlands. Spaarnestad Photo, SFA003001706

The woman lightweight world champion boxing Louise Adler training with the prize fighter Joe Rivers for the match in which she will defend her title, United States 1926.



Who we are and what we do

Who we are• Alastair Dunning, JISC Digitisation Programme

Manager• Paola Marchionni, JISC Digitisation Programme

Manager

What we do• point of contact• oversee the programme• support and advise projects• critical friends• make sure projects are delivered in time and on budget• “ambassadors”• responsibility for other areas of the programme



A peak into the lifecycle of a typical JISC project

Prog. mtg

Project plan + budget

Team/board mtg

Project blog set up

Workshop

JISC mailing

list

write blog posts, chat

with us

Resources, eg SCA

Networking, workshops,

events

JISC Comms supportLAUNCH!!!

Final report

Keep in touch, no

prog report

Budget query



To summarise: What JISC can do for projects

Support and guidance– For support within your team or institution – If there is a major change in your project plan,

outputs or budget– For guidance on completing project documentation– Informal chat, a shoulder on which to cry


Joint Information Systems Committee


Workshops/trainings– Identifying needs: start chart and today’s mtg– On different topics, depending on your needs, you tell us

– Coming up:• Workshop: Project management – 3 May 2001• Event: Digital Impacts: how to measure and

understand the usage and impact of digital resources – 20 May 2011, Oxford

• Community Collections event, 26 May, Oxford

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Resources and tools – JISC Digital Media http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/

• guidance and training about still and moving images and sound

– Strategic Content Alliance http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/publications/ • Audience research, Business models and sustainability,

IPR, Web2.0– Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources

• http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/• Qualitative and quantitative indicators to measure impact




Communication– Catch-up face-to-face mtgs; telephone, email… – eContent mailing list– Support from JISC Comms and marketing– JISC Digital Content mailing list

[email protected] – JISC Digitisation blog http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/– JISC Digitisation and eContent web pages

www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation



To summarise: What projects need to do for JISC

Documentation– Core project documents

–www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/projectmanagement.aspx

– Within 1 month: Project plan, Work packages; Budget– Within 1 month: Project blog; Consortium agreement– End of project: Final report, Completion survey, Final

budget statement

Make contact with Programme Manager if you have a problem with deadlines


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Project Blog – Why?

• to share your project with the community• to document its progress openly• to start publicising your work and build up to it launch

– What to blog and how often?• Project documentation• Progress, news, findings, work with users, feedback, tips

and advice…• As often as you can, at least once a week? Tabbloid

– Amplifying• RSS feed – Tabbloid• Hashtag• Twitter…

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Acknowledging JISC – working with JISC Comms– On your project blog/page and press releases – get in

touch!– JISC acknowledgement: ‘This project is funded by JISC as

part of the eContent programme 2011/Rapid Digitisation programme 2011’

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/rapiddigi.aspx

– JISC logo guidelines -

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/marketing_toolkit/logo.aspx



Credits to first image

Credits:"She gave a contemptuous toss . . . . and left me" by F. A. Fraser. c. 1877. 4.6 x 6.6 inches. An illustration for the Household Edition of Dickens's Great Expectations (p. 29).

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham from material reproduced courtesy of The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LF.

This image may be used without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose.

The Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/fraser/5.html

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