http://sca.jiscinvolve.org Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:09:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/08/18/upcoming-sca-home-nations-forums-scotland-wales-n-ireland/ In this podcast, recorded at the SCA Home Nations forum in Cardiff last month, Rebecca O'Brien speaks to Naomi Korn, the SCA’s Intellectual Property Rights consultant, about why IPR is important. Naomi explains that IPR is a major preoccupation and consideration for the SCA because it affects the flow of ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/08/08/128/ In the new edition of the SCA newsletter read updates on the Seoul declaration, digitisation funding and Kangeroo; get a snapshot of the latest content-related reports; find out what's happening in the world of IPR; plus SCA news in brief and dates for your diary. Click through below to access ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/11/sca-newsletter-july-2008/ 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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/03/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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/19/chris-batt-to-speak-at-search/ 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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/19/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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/14/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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/03/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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/03/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 ... http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/03/scaithaka-sustainability-study-new-york-session-notes/