An update on the progress of the projects in the JISC Content programme 2011-13 covering areas such as IPR and licencing; users consultation; parnterships; embedding resourcing in teaching, learnignand research; and technologies projects are using.

1. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
JISC Content programme
2011-13
progress update
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Paola Marchionni
JISC Programme Manager Digitisation
p.marchionni@jisc.ac.uk
@paolamarchionni
JISC Content Advisory Group
12 April 2012
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2. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
To recap…
JISC Content programme 2011-13
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013.aspx
Just under £6m - 24 projects (new entry: Welsh experience of WW1 –
1914-1918, £500,000)
3 Strands:
Strand A: Digitisation and OER Creation - Nov 2011-Jan 2013
Strand B: Mass Digitisation - Nov 2011-Jul 2013
Strand C: Clustering Digital Content - Nov 2011-Jan 2013
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3. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Programme’s expected outcomes…
o Mixture of digitised “raw” and “cooked” content
o Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open content , when
possible
o Embedding resources in teaching, learning and research
o Partnerships and collaborations , internal and external
o User focus and emphasis on resource discovery
o Innovation in content creation, delivery, sustainability…
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4. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
What have projects been up to?
Follow projects’ blogs on the JISC Content programme Netvibes site at
http://bit.ly/xfy1Qh
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5. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Some highlights in blogs:
IPR and licencing : on the whole projects keen on open access and
Creative Commons, or comparable, licences but:
o still a lot of negotiations to re-licence content thought to have been
cleared for CC purposes – Observing the 1980s blog http://bit.ly/HM8DEH
o A lot of material is orphan works and requires
due diligence approach – Manifacturing Pasts
blog http://bit.ly/HM8O2N
o Some unexpected successes: open licence of
EPNS data for DEEP project, when it was initially envisaged only for HE/FE
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6. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
User driven content: a variety of channels explored to ensure resources
are relevant to key users
Aligning content
selection to teaching lists
– Digitised Diseases blog
http://bit.ly/HYpwgI
Wireframes
Students research and apple cake – Web usability testing –
OBL4HE blog http://bit.ly/HYrcH0 Manuscripts Online blog
http://bit.ly/HYoQrL
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7. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Embedding resources in teaching, learning and research from the
project’s outset
New module planned at Leeds University
- OpenLives blog http://bit.ly/HYzgHK
New Connections BT Archive
embedding research project on
linguistic analysis of business More research projects as part of Medical
correspondence – blog Officer of Health reports and Board of Longitude
http://bit.ly/HYz5fF projects – and teaching modules for all Strand A
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projects

8. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Collaborations and partnerships mostly to deliver more content to
more people
Fashion biz and
student internships
at Zandra Rhodes
project – blog
http://bit.ly/HYnLjF
And some
unexpected
Private’ partnerships with architectural problems -
ractices, ArchtitectUS blog http://bit.ly/HgLzfj - Stepping into
nd publishers, Online Veterinary Time project
natomical Museum blog http://bit.ly/HgMa0u blog
http://bit.ly/HgNPDk
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9. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Technologies for digitisation, resource discovery, OER creation etc…
ENGrich
experimenting with
APIs to retrieve
engineering related
resources, blog
http://bit.ly/HgPPvs
Old Maps Online
3D digitisation of using Klokan
skeletons, Digitised Technologies, “like
Diseases blog post, Google for old
http://bit.ly/HgPaKo and 3D maps” blog
fossils project - http http://bit.ly/HQVEnb
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10. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Programme level activities aimed at:
o providing support for projects and monitoring progress
o fostering a community of like minded people to share
knowledge and experiences, best practice and networking
o addressing programme’s risks
o communicating and disseminating the programme’s outputs
and outcomes
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11. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Programme level activities
o Support through JISC Services:
o IPR and licencing (IPR Consultant and JISC Legal also in
connection to JISC OER programme IPR support project
o JISC Digital Media - http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/
o CETIS (audit of tools and technologies adopted by proejcts
for learning resources, in coordination with JISC OER
programme) - http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/
o Netskills: wide range of training available - http://www.netskills.ac.uk/
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12. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Programme level activities
o Support through workshops, events and trainings:
o OER workshop (Nov 2011) in collaboration with SCORE and JISC
OER programme
o OER Networking Day (Mar 2012) – in collaboration with
JISC OER programme; HEA OER programme and JISC Rapid
Innovation OER programme
o Web usability workshop (Feb and Apr 2012)
o Discovery programme mtg – in collaboration with the JISC
Discovery programme (Apr 2012)
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13. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Programme level activities
o Planned future activities to cover among others…:
o Communication and dissemination; Search Engine Optimisation
(SEO); Evaluation and Impact; Sustainability; 3D
digitisation/resources (tbc); use of digital content in teaching,
learning and research (tbc)
o Webinars with JORUM, CETIS, JISC Digital Media
o Support project on evaluation and synthesis
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14. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Useful links
o JISC Content programme 2011-2013
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/conte
o JISC Content programme’s Netvibes site with projects blogs
http://bit.ly/xfy1Qh
o JISC Digitisation blog http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org
o JISC Content web site at www.jisc-content.ac.uk (portal of
JISC-funded digital content)
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15. JISC Content programme 2011-13 – progress update
Image credits
• Cover slide: An enrolled trilobite, genus Calymene, British Geological Survey, GB/3D Fossils
project http://bit.ly/HUAwea
• Slide 5: screen shot, Manifacturing pasts project blog http://manufacturingpasts.wordpress.com/
• Slide 6: Skeleton store at BARC, Bradford, Digitised Diseases project blog http://bit.ly/HYpwgI
and screen shot of wireframes from Manuscripts Online project blog http://bit.ly/HYoQrL
• Slide 7: BT image HM Queen Elizabeth II opening the public Subscriber Trunk Dialling system by
making an automatic telephone call to the Provost of Edinburgh from Bristol Telephone
Exchange, 5 December 1958 (courtesy of BT Heritage)
• Slide 7: Drawing by Germinal – in ppt presentation by Irina Nelson, Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez,
Antonio Martinez-Arboleda, Miguel Arrebola http://bit.ly/HYBk2s
• Slide 8: Associate Architects visit, ArchitectUS project http://bit.ly/HgLzfj ; Zandra Rhodes with
Joanna Swinney http://bit.ly/HYnLjF; Zoom in of a Night Bombing Aggregate Map, photo taken
from HO193/13 map series (Crown Copyright, The National Archives) http://bit.ly/HgNPDk
• Slide 9: 3D scanner Don Walker scanning an acondroplastic humerus – Digitised Diseases
project http://bit.ly/HgPaKo
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