• 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.

Naomi explains that IPR is a major preoccupation and consideration for the SCA because it affects the flow of content to users. She discusses risk management approaches to dealing with orphan works and pockets of excellence where organisations have found pragmatic pathways to dealing with IPR.

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SCA newsletter July 2008 (pdf)

SCA newsletter July 2008 (Word)

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.

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‘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.

“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’? (more…)

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.

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Click through below to access the newsletter in pdf format.

SCA newsletter June 2008

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.

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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.

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