Archive for March, 2008

Upcoming workshop on business models, April 10

‘The Shape of the Future? Business Models and Sustainability in the Digital Age: A Peer-reviewing Workshop’ will take place on 10th April, 2008 at the Wellcome Trust with Ithaka and the Strategic Content Alliance.

Further details below but please note that numbers are strictly limited so make sure you sign up at your earliest opportunity. Please email e.beer@jisc.ac.uk for further details. Continue reading ‘Upcoming workshop on business models, April 10′

Report from the JISC/OPSI Power of Information Review forum

JISC, in conjunction with OPSI, held a consultative forum on 18 January to explore the development of a re-use request webchannel, an initiative in response to Recommendation 8 of the Power of Information Review (POIR). The POIR, by Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg, looks at how the government responds to the various trends loosely described as Web 2.0. The review stated the government should provide better access to the public sector information (PSI) it holds. Among the issues discussed at the forum were

  • barriers to the re-use of public sector information
  • the kinds of information academics and researchers are interested in
  • how rights and licensing issues should be handled

Download the full report from the forum here (Word document):

Report from the JISC/OPSI Power of Information Review forum 18.01.08

SCA newsletter: December

In the December edition of the SCA newsletter, Peter Kaufman writes about Intelligent Television, Philip Pothen reports from the Liber-Eblida conference in Copenhagen, and Chris Blatt provides session notes from the Media Guardian Changing Broadcast Summit. Plus news, report watch and updates. Click through below to access the newsletter in pdf format.
SCA newsletter December 2007

The next newsletter will be available to download later this month.