We are delighted to announce the next series of Home Nations Forums:
- Scotland Forum: 25 September 2008, 10am-3pm Apex City Hotel, Edinburgh
- Northern Ireland Forum: 2 October, 10am-3pm, Radisson SAS Hotel, Belfast
- Wales Forum: 8 October 2008, 10am-3pm, Park Plaza Cardiff
We see these Home Nations events as an opportunity to share knowledge and seek input from experts in these areas of the UK. We very much look forward to sharing the work of the SCA, learning more about the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish environments, and looking at how we can work together.
Presentations and updates on the following subject areas will be featured:
- BBC UK CenturyShare, update from Simon Delafond
- Changes to the EU Copyright Legislation
- Audience Analysis Update
- Content Framework and JISC future investment in content creation
- National Library for Health (Cardiff only)
Registration for all these events is now available online at http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/scaforums_2008_2
The full programme will be available here on the blog shortly.
On 23 June the SCA held a peer review workshop on Audience Analysis and Modelling, led by Chris Batt. It followed his Audience Analysis report.
Two case studies were provided: The London Hub and Online Audiences by Dylan Edgar, The London Hub; and CIBER and Deep Log Analysis by Professor David Nicholas, CIBER UCL.
Read on for the slides of these two case studies.
Continue reading ‘Audience analysis case study slides’
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 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?’
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’
In order for the SCA to progress its mission to build a UK Content Framework, it is integral that we collaborate with the devolved administrations specifically and agencies and organisations with a Scottish, Northern Ireland and Welsh perspective more broadly.
We see these ‘Home Nations’ events as an opportunity to share knowledge and seek input from experts in these areas of the UK. We very much look forward to introducing the work of the SCA, learning more about the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish environments, and looking at how we can work together.
We are delighted to announce the next series of Home Nations Forums:
- Scotland Forum: Edinburgh, May 22
- Northern Ireland Forum: Belfast, May 29
- Wales Forum: Cardiff, June 5
Contact Emma Beer if you are interested in attending these events or receiving more information about them.
Click through below to read the programme for each of these events.
Scotland Forum May 2008 Agenda
Northern Ireland Forum May 2008 Agenda
Wales Forum June 2008 Agenda
Business models and sustainability in the digital age: a peer reviewing workshop is currently taking place at the Wellcome Trust in London, led by Kevin Guthrie of Ithaka. Under discussion is the Ithaka-produced report on sustainability and business models.
Read on for a report of the first session: Continue reading ‘SCA/Ithaka Workshop: sustainability in the digital age’
A peer-reviewing workshop is being held today at the Wellcome Trust, London to share reactions to the initial report on sustainability and business models for online academic resources produced by Ithaka. A further event will be held in New York later this month. Read reports of events here in London on the blog throughout the day and download the full report:
Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: draft report by Kevin Guthrie, Rebecca Griffiths, Nancy Maron
Earlier this year Chris Batt attended the International Conference on the EDL project in Frankfurt-am-Main and wrote detailed session reports, an excerpt from which was featured in the March 2008 SCA newsletter. Read on for a reminder of his concluding thoughts on the meeting, and to download the full report.
Continue reading ‘Session report from the International Conference on the EDL project’
‘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′
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
Naomi Korn, the SCA’s IPR Consultant, kicked off the Shaping the Future forum at the British Library on February 19 with a lively overview of the challenges of IP - from content to the law and resources to policies - but also highlighted some of the opportunities it offers.
Read on to find out what she said and to see the presentations from her talk. Continue reading ‘Shaping the Future forum: Naomi Korn: Overview of IP opportunities and challenges’
At the Shaping the Future forum at the British Library on February 19, Professor Charles Oppenheim took a close look at the consultative report released by the Intellectual Property Office based on the Gowers Review of IP. He identified the exceptions to copyright covered in the document: educational; format shifting; research or private study; libraries and archives; parody and pastiche, and raised some of the questions and issues that the proposed modifications to these exceptions throw up. Read on to discover Professor Oppenheim’s view of Gowers, and to see the presentation slides from his talk. Continue reading ‘Shaping the Future forum: Charles Oppenheim: Gowers review of IP’