Possible themes:
- Business models/partnerships/roles
- Governance, licencing
- Tools and infrastructure
- Communities of practice
- Advocacy and tools for this
Read on for the discussion of future plans…
Archive for July, 2007
Photos from last night’s Symposium reception have been uploaded to the JISC Digitisation Flickr account and can be found here:
As events in Cardiff move on to the main part of the Digitisation Conference, so too will the blog coverage. Live reports from the next two days will be on the Digitisation Blog. But do keep checking back here over the conference period as further podcasts from the Symposium will be uploaded, plus coverage of the Symposium extra session this evening.
What trends do you see in technical infrastructure and shared services? Where should we target our efforts, individually and collectively?
Listen to a podcast of this workshop (41:42)
How can we lever greater collaboration and cooperation in the development of e-content standards, tools and architectures?
Moderator Stuart Dempster began the session by acknowledging that the language of digitisation can be a barrier to collaboration and cooperation. Depending where you come from the vernacular changes eg users, stakeholders, audience? There is no lingua franca or digital Esperanto. How can we lever more effective communications?
Read on for the rest of the discussion
Continue reading ‘Symposium 2007: Workshop: Collaboration, cooperation and e-content’
What business models have been developed to sustain and improve the provision of e-content to the citizen? What economic indicators do funders and/or publishers use in assessing the cost/benefit of mass digitisation?
Moderator Peter Kaufman kicked off the discussion with a timely tale about Prince or, rather, the Artist Formerly known as Prince. Last weekend the singer gave away free copies of his most recent album, Planet Earth, through a deal with the Mail on Sunday. This angered the Entertainment Retailers Association and its co-chair, Paul Quirke, commented that “with behaviour like this he will become known as the artist formerly available in record stores.” In response, Prince’s spokesperson said that “Prince’s only aim is to get music direct to those who want to hear it”. There is, said Peter Kaufman, a lesson there for us all.
Read on for the rest of the discussion.
Continue reading ‘Symposium 2007: Workshop: Business models and e-content’
Sarah Porter, Kevin Guthrie and Pat Manson started the discussion with an overview of what they each consider to be the “big issues” in e-content.
Continue reading ‘Symposium 2007: Session 1: The Big Issue in e-content’
The Strategic Content Alliance is a three year JISC-funded initiative committed to delivering a co-ordinated framework of principles and best practice for the provision of online e-content for UK citizens.
Its aim is to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded e-content can gain best value from the investment that has been made by reducing the barriers that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of e-content.
You can find out more about the Strategic Content Alliance on the About page and on the wiki. On this blog you’ll find the latest information about - and can comment on - Strategic Content Alliance activities. We’ll also be blogging live from the e-Content Policy and Strategy Symposium in Cardiff on July 18.