Chris Batt of the SCA will be holding a session at Oxford Internet Surveys’ Search! event at the British Library on 24 June. The SCA will also be sponsoring the lunch.
‘Search!’ is the third event in the 2007-2008 Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) discussion seminars series. Previous events included The Links between Social Exclusion and Digital Disengagement, and the Social Networking Conference.
The different sessions that make up this day long event will discuss the past, present and future of searching for information and content. Social science and technological approaches are used to look at this topic from the perspective of both the producers and the users of searchable content.
There is further information about the programme at the OxIS website.
The second SCA Wales forum, held in Cardiff on 5 June, was opened by Dr Rhidian Griffiths, Director of Public Services at the National Library of Wales. He highlighted the importance of partnership in expanding access to online resources, mentioning the Library’s ‘digital mirror’project, its archive of the Welsh in Ohio, and library.wales.org as examples of how the NLW is working with other organisations to provide sustainable collections.
“Digital developments will also throw up questions about IP and new thinking about creators and users and their rights,” said Dr Griffiths.
“The balance is shifting in the digital world. It will promote new thinking about sustainability, thinking not only about this generation’s audience but audiences in generations to come. There are also considerations of widening access and defining new audiences and audiences who will function in different ways to the traditional. The aim is to give that wider audience a deeper understanding of what exists in our libraries museums and archives.”
Read on for coverage of Chris Batt’s presentation on audiences, Naomi Korn’s testbedding of a new model of IPR, and how the breakout session on business models asked itself ‘how do you solve a problem like JANET’? Continue reading ‘Wales forum: Audiences, IPR and business models’
The latest Home Nations Forum in Edinburgh focused on Standards. Alastair Dunning from JISC Digitisation gave a talk which illustrated how standards need to be thought of as existing in an organic, shifting environment and why the ramifications of choosing any standards need to be thought through. A lively discussion followed which continued through into the hour-long round table session, facilitiated by Alastair and Brian Kelly of UKOLN, which tackled some of the issues in more depth.
Read on for Alastair’s presentation, coverage of the further discussion, and Brian Kelly’s final roundup, plus details of the other presentations from the day.
Continue reading ‘Scotland Forum: Do we need to get Stalinist about standards?’
In the latest edition of the monthly SCA newsletter there’s an update on the Gowers review of IP, with special reference to orphan works, details of a new libraries action plan, Home Nations news in brief, plus dates for the diary and a report from the National Digital Inclusion conference.
Click through below to access the newsletter in pdf format.
SCA newsletter June 2008
On 23 June 2008, Chris Batt will be holding an afternoon London workshop on ‘Audience Analysis and Modelling’. It follows his Audience Analysis report.
The purpose of the workshop is:
To review the content and recommendations of the Final Report of the SCA work package on audience analysis and modelling that was undertaken during the first three months of 2008
To discuss the importance of audiences in the e-content value chain and whether there are other approaches to audiences and modelling should be considered
Following on from this workshop the report and recommendations of ‘Audience Analysis and Modelling’ will be revisited. This workshop will help plan the next phase of study of audience methodologies and the SCA’s investment in the future. This will form a part of the UK Content Framework, to be delivered in March 2009.
Read on for the full programme but please note that numbers are strictly limited so please register your place with Emma Beer at your earliest opportunity.
Continue reading ‘Upcoming workshop: Audience analysis and modelling’
On 8 May the SCA and Ithaka met in New York for a workshop held to discuss Ithaka’s paper on sustainability of online academic resources (a parallel event had been held in Lon in April, details here).
Below, and attached as a Word document, are Kevin Guthrie’s notes on some of the main themes that arose during the session. It includes a list of next steps that were identified for research or concrete measures that would advance sustainability.
We welcome your feedback on the recommendations as well as the notes, especially your sense of what possibilities strike you as having the highest priority. Over the coming weeks, we will be following up to assess what Ithaka and other organisations might do to act on these ideas. Thanks in advance for any input you can provide.
Continue reading ‘SCA/Ithaka sustainability study: New York session notes’
A final version of the Ithaka report on Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources is now available to download.
Read on for the Executive Summary and to download the full report as a pdf.
Continue reading ‘Download: Final Ithaka report on sustainability’