Can just a few simple and inexpensive search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques can increase the visibility of an organisation’s online content and the number of users to its website? JISC explored this hypothesis with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and three UK organisations. Read on to find out more and download the report that tracks the success and potential pitfalls for organisations undertaking this work.
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A new version of Sustaining Digital Resources is now available with a revised Executive Summary to give a more nuanced interpretation of the findings for funders, as well as a succinct listing of ‘key findings’ and ‘factors influencing sustainability’, which are particularly pertinent to those working in funding bodies. Read on to find out more and download the revised edition.
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For public bodies, understanding the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing in their capacity as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital content is essential in their role in the digital content lifecycle from creation to curation, to ensure that they can deliver publically funded content. Three briefing papers have been prepared by Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance, so that public sector agencies can learn more about IPR management on an operational and strategic level as well as having links to sources of other essential information.
Ithaka S+R has completed a multi-year investigation of innovative funding models to sustain digital projects, culminating in a summary paper and twelve detailed case studies. Now, Ithaka has produced three briefing papers for use across the public sector, highlighting suggestions drawn from this project, and suggesting how the examples provided by some of the case studies might be useful to specific professional areas of digital content creation and curation.
The Strategic Content Alliance has published a range of resources in key areas, from Audience and IPR to Business Models. The toolkits include briefing papers, visualisation guides and case studies.
If you have used any of these resources we would really like to know how helpful they were to you and any improvements you think should be made. This will help us to make any further versions of these toolkits better, and effectively target future publications.
We would welcome your feedback via the online survey:
http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/sca/
It should only take 5-10 minutes to complete and is anonymous. However, if you complete all the fields and provide your email address you will be entered into a draw for the chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher. The draw is open until 31 August 2009.