A presentation from the JISC conference New Strategies for Digital Content, 18 March 2011, London By Alastair Dunning http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/12/09

1. 18th March 2011 - New Strategies for Digital Content Impact, Aggregation, Partnership Alastair DunningJISC Digitisation Programme Manager @alastairdunning

2. which are the really successful digitised resources?

3. source: my personal opinion headnote: there’s a whole messy argument about impact and value i’m skipping over also worthy of mention: visual arts data service, british history online, archaeology data service, british cartoon archive, and many more ... in higher education: eebo, tlg, old bailey online, complete works of charles darwin (and more)

4. which are the really successful digital resources?

5. see: http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.asp in education: PubMed central, Research Papers in Economics, arXiV

6. but also in education: wikipedia, flickr, google, google books

7. what do these resources have in common?

8. aggregation critical mass multiple sources

9. thinking of the educational resources, how do we know they are successful? and more over why are they successful?

10. the complete works of charles darwin online thesaurus linguae graecae eebo old bailey online

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14. so this should give us some clear indications of how we want to build digitised resources in the future drawing on multiple sources is necessary to offer a resource with a wide impact

15. now, turn to university digital / digitisation strategies

17. strategic engagement within the institution

18. meeting user needs

19. preservation, sustainability

21. maybe a few. but it does not fit well with institutional strategies.

22. and if you want senior support and buy in for your digital strategy, it needs to fit in with your university’s focus

23. a tension: users (that, um, use the resources) vs universities (that provide the digitised resources)

24. How should universities proceed?

25. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with commercial publishers E.g. ProQuest, Gale, Adam Matthews non for profit platforms E.g. JSTOR, JISC Collections

26. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with but also other universities, collections holdersand researchers

27. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with universitiesand other collections holders will have related content that will make your content stronger

28. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with but why should university senior management want to host others’ collections?

29. a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with because your university researchers can provide the expertise in curating and editing the website but more importantly, your university staff can use the resource to advance their teaching and research and raise the university’s profile

31. undergraduates undertaking research

32. altered study of 18th century london – “history from below”

33. widely used by general public

34. wiki for debate and discussion

36. well, maybe. but there’s nothing to stop you publishing your content by itself as well

37. indeed, publishing in multiple places and formats will increasing usage and impact.(just make sure your logo is visible)

38. ensure that your content is discoverable and aggregatable(sp!) not only by portals and gateways, but by new media companies wishing to create interfaces exposing metadata, developing application programming interfaces non desktop access, esp. mobiles again, partnerships with others will help with this

39. In Summary: Medium Impact – Work well, but by yourself High Impact – Identify others who can enrich your content for users, and work with them