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Navigating a sea of stories…
Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 1
Navigating a sea of stories:new online resources from the JISC
Digitisation programme
www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research
© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 2008: John Johnson Collection
Copyright © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved
Paola Marchionni
JISC Digitisation Programme Manager
Open University
20 February 2009
Navigating a sea of stories…
Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 2
New online resources
Some video clips on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/jiscmedia
Newsfilm Online WW1 Poetry Digital Archive
British Cartoons Archive Cabinet Papers: 1915-1978
John Johnson Collection
and more to come…
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First World War Poetry Digital Archive
www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit - Open access
Collections: search by poets, media, keyword
Education section– Tutorials (KS1 to undergraduate): can be used as course supplement,
further reading, teaching aids – Pathways: annotated trails with archive material, all level, teachers
can add new ones, (download, print, zoom, see catalogue record…)– Resources packs (schools)– Podcasts
The Great War Archive
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Cabinet Papers: 1915-1978
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ - Open access
Thematic approach– Contextualisation packages about UK and the world, economy,
society and welfare linked to cabinet papers
Writing frame – Interactive writing tool to support the use and investigation of historical
primary sources in a structured way
Interactive maps– Links to cabinet papers and downloadable information
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Newsfilm Online
www.nfo.ac.uk – Authentication required
Collections searchable by decade and keywords
E-learning framework, by Simon Atkinson and Kevin Burden – Based on two axis: spaces (eg small lecture theatre) and learning
design (empathy, conceptualisation, analogy, authoring etc…)– Pedagogical exemplars (different approaches to using videos)– Case studies, eg Skipton College on moral panic through the decades
Technical tutorials – Practical guidance on using, downloading, editing video clips
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Navigating a sea of stories What can you do with all
these resources?
Enhancing teaching and learning
Use different and primary sources to explore a topic
Interdisciplinary studies
Make research quicker
Explore new links and research questions
Download
Include in assignments and presentations
Mss of poem “Dulce et Decorum est”, Wilfred Owen
War cabinet document
WW1 cocoa advert
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What is JISC? What is JISC and what does it do?
– Supports the use of ICT in research, teaching and learning
– Focus on post-16 and HE– Funds innovative projects in: e-
resources, e-learning, e-research, information environment etc…
– Provides support, guidance and advice to institutions through its services, eg JISC Digital Media, JISC Legal, InfoNet, Janet etc…
– Funded by UK post-16 and HE funding councils
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Digitisation programme Digitisation programme:
– Building sustainable and authoritative e-resources for the benefit of UK teaching, learning and research
Started in 2004, 6 projects, £10m
Phase 2, 2007-09, 16 new projects, £12m
Enriching Digital resources, 2008-09, 25 projects, £2m
Variety of collections and media: sound recordings, British newspapers, medical journals, radio and TV programmes, parliamentary papers, cartoons, poetry, Irish and Welsh journals and monographs, maps, theatre and entertainment…
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Some key issues
Some key issues for digitisation projects and the experience of the JISC Digitisation programme
What should I digitise? Content selection
Which metadata schema should I use?
Who does the content belong to and what do I want to do with it? Licencing and IPR
Who is the collection for and how do I engage users?
Who and how will maintain the resource? Sustainability
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Content selection
What should I digitise?– Current and potential use of a collection and users needs– Alignment with teaching and research priorities– Links with the curriculum– Alignment with Institution’s content
development/digitisation strategy, if in place– Potential for interdisciplinarity, increased use– Wide appeal and interest– IPR and preservation issues– Set up an Advisory board of subject specialists
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Content selection Freeze Frame
– 20,000 images recording polar exploration
– Project identified courses and curricula where project could have impact
– University – Geology, Biology, Anthropology, etc.
– Colleges and Schools – Art and Design, History, Geography etc.
– Construction of learning work packages built into project plan
JISC DiSCMap Study on priority collections for digitisation
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Metadata
Which metadata schema should I use?– Can be time consuming to produce, especially human created
ones – Decide what information needs to be recorded for the institution
and for the users– Investigate existing metadata provision – Available resources, staff, time, budget, infrastructure– Have a plan B in case you need to re-allocate resources towards
metadata creation – Devise metadata approach and strategy from the beginning and
document– Importance of using metadata standards adopted by your
community – Can your users help? Self-tagging
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Metadata Commonly used metadata schema by JISC projects:
– Dublin Core, ISAD(G), MARC, MODS, GIS, TEI, METS, PREMIS
National Library of Wales– 400,000 pages from 19th and 20th journals on
Welsh history, culture and society– Use TEI to catalogue parts of journals
Independent Radio News Archive/LBC– 3000 hours of audio recording from Britain’s first
commercial radio– Example of dealing with legacy metadata
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Content licencing Who does the content belong to
and what do I want to do with it? Two sides of the same coin:
– Who owns copyright of the content to be digitised?
– What will users be able to do with it?
Some issue to consider:– Copyright clearance is a very time-
consuming process– It can be expensive – Be clear about what you need to licence
content for, ie what users can do – Variety of copyright layers in some type of
materials– Orphan works: keep a due diligence file– Always seek legal advice– Exercise in risk assessment
Dramatic works
Text-based works
Dramatic works
Films
MusicBroadcast
Sound recordings
Typographic works
Categories of works protected by
copyright
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Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 15
Content licencing JISC Model licence
– UK HE and FE sector – for the purpose of education…– eg copying, downloading, inclusion in course packs, assignments,
presentation etc
JISC Collections Open Educational Content Licence (for open access resources)
– Open access non commercial educational purposes only licence– Permitted usage is explicitly much broader than in Creative Commons
licences
Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) IPR toolkit (out March 2009): guidance papers and practical tool
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User engagement
Who is the collection for and how do I engage users?– Be clear about core user group/s and current and potential use
of the collection – Set up advisory group of subject specialists and users group– Find out more about users requirements (focus groups,
surveys)– Invest time in usability testing– Create an engaging and interactive web site– Tell your users about your resource, be “findable” (expose your
metadata widely, exploit social networking tools)– Find out how users are using your resource - Impact
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User engagement First World War Poetry Archive
– The Great War archive: galvanising communities out there
– On Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia
Pre-Raphaelite resource– 3000 images of works by Pre-Raphaelite
painters and related resources– Audience research on usefulness of
Web2.0 tools on scholarly resources
JISC Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (out Apr 2009)
SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit
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Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 18
Sustainability
Who and how will maintain the resource?– Problem of “project-based” funding model for many
digitisation projects– Tension between sustainability and open access:
somebody has to pay– Ideally digitisation should be embedded into institutional
strategies, practices, processes and infrastructure– Variety of sustainability models (commercial partnership,
subscription, ads, institutional support, use of existing infrastructure…)
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Sustainability John Johnson Collection
– 65,000 images of printed ephemera– Partnership between the Bodleian
Library and ProQuest– Free to UK HE, FE and public libraries,
subscription abroad
Historic Boundaries of Britain– Historical boundaries maps– Google ads
19th Century Pamphlets– 23,000 pamphlets – Delivery by JSTOR
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Some useful resources JISC Digitisation programme and projects: www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
JISC Digitisation Blog: http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/
Content Selection– DiSCMap project, Digitisation in Special Collections: Mapping,
Assessment, Prioritisation http://discmap.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
Metadata– JISC Digital Media (ex-TASI) http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/ – JISC standards catalogue
http://standards.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/Home.phtml– UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/metadata/ – SCA Standards report (out Mar 09) see SCA blog http://
sca.jiscinvolve.org/
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Some useful resources IPR
– JISC Collections Open Educational Content Licence http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/jisc_collections_open_educational_user_licence_v1.0.doc
– Web2Rights toolkit http://www.web2rights.org.uk/diagnostic.html– SCA IPR toolkit (out Mar 09), see SCA blog http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/
User engagement – Pre-Raphaelite audience research on Web2.0
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/07/is-academia-ready-for-web-20/
– SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2009/02/05/download-audience-analysis-toolkit (more in March 09)
– Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (out Apr 09) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51
– The ideal digital humanities project checklist, LAIRAH study http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/circah/lairah/features/
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Some useful resources
Sustainability– SCA/Ithaka report on Sustainability and Business Models
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/06/sca_ithaka_sustainability_report-final.pdf
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Navigating a sea of stories… First World War Poetry Digital Archive – open access
– http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
Cabinet Papers 1915-1978 – open access– http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/
The John Johnson Collection - authentication– http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk
British Cartoon Archive – open access– http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
Newsfilm Online - authentication– http://www.nfo.ac.uk/