Affiliate Organisations Membership is a non-financial membership, designed to assist the Strategic Content Alliance in developing and deploying the UK Content Framework.
Affiliate members of the SCA receive the following benefits:
- Take part in an online annual review (delivery via online survey form) of Alliance outputs which will feed into future work
- Take part in workshops/ conference attendance to encourage the development of Alliance tools, guides and report recommendations which will ensure dissemination of outputs as well as exposure of the Affiliate’s brand and continued involvement.
- Exclusive invitation-only events which are restricted to affiliate and sponsoring organisations
- Contribute to the Alliance moderated wiki (‘Digipedia’) which shall act as a ‘Knowledge base’ for practitioners and policy makers on the digital content life-cycle.
- Free subscription to Digital Content Quarterly
- Exclusive blog and email for affiliate and sponsoring organisations
Organisations that have agreed to join the SCA as affiliate members include:
- Library and Information Services Council, Northern Ireland
- Napier University, Edinburgh
- The National Library of Wales
- The National Library of Scotland
- University of Cardiff
- University of Swansea
- Research Information Network
- Queen’s University Belfast
- Library and Information Services Council (Northern Ireland)
- University of Glamorgan
- House of Commons Library
- Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum
To find out more about affiliate membership, please download the Memorandum of Understanding:
Memorandum of Understanding for affiliated organisations (December 2009)
and contact Stuart Dempster or Sarah Fahmy for further information.