Sarah Fahmy, of the Strategic Content Alliance, on the challenges faced by library, cultural heritage and other related sectors with the current financial situation.
Looks at the consequences for digital projects at this time, but also shows how these problems can be mitigated.
2. The Strategic Content Alliance www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance | Slide 10 June 2010 Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today Sarah Fahmy Manager, Strategic Content Alliance
3. The Strategic Content Alliance www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance | Slide 10 June 2010 The e-Content Marathon – another “digital divide”
5. The e-Content Framework components www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance | Slide 10 June 2010 (The SCA is developing these themes for the e-Content Framework)
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11. Five Steps to Sustainability Empower leadership to define the mission and take action Create a strong value proposition Creatively manage costs Cultivate diverse sources of revenue Establish realistic goals and a system of accountability
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17. Five Steps to Sustainability Empower leadership to define the mission and take action Create a strong value proposition Creatively manage costs Cultivate diverse sources of revenue Establish realistic goals and a system of accountability
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Editor's Notes
Idea that content provision goes from nursery to death Digital Britain ideal: digital literacy, digital inclusion Content usage will change throughout the life-time, but reliance on pub sector info prob won’t
Concerned with working across public sector- not just HE/FE, although JISC main contributor Here are sponsors
Ithaka’s 2008 report on sustainability outlined the mindsets and strategic shifts needed for digital resources to thrive. Feedback to that publication from project leaders, funding agencies, library directors, and other stakeholders indicated strong demand for on-the-ground examples of the strategies that projects employ. Revenue models: subscription, endowment, membership, author pays, licensing, institutional subsidy, government support, public/private partnerships, non-profit partnerships. Disciplines: Science, Humanities, Social Sciences Institutional bases: libraries, archives, museums, academic departments at universities, government-sponsored initiatives, k-12 educational resources Countries : UK (5), US (4), France, Germany, Egypt