Nancy Maron of Ithaka S+R, which has produced a range of reports and resources for the Strategic Content Alliance on the subject of sustainability of digital resources, has created a framework to help project leaders define the steps needed to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Read on to download the Framework tool.
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Last month the Strategic Content Alliance and Ithaka S+R published an influential new report on funding for sustainability.
The executive summary of the report is now available in UK and US versions. Download them here:
Funding For Sustainability Executive Summary (UK, July 2011)
Funding For Sustainability Executive Summary (US, July 2011)
(You can also find out more about the full report and download the full report: Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources (June 2011))
The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was founded in the 1920’s but it remains largely inaccessible, held on film or videotape and indexed to serve the needs of programme-makers within the BBC.
Chronicle is a new project that explores how material from the BBC’s extensive archive of news coverage of Northern Ireland can be made available for use in further and higher education, combining digitised film and video with tools which can be used to search and tag coverage to be used in research or teaching.
Delivered through a partnership between the JISC-funded Strategic Content Alliance, the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) and the BBC, Chronicle is one of several initiatives from the Archive Development group at the BBC. Its goal is to explore ways in which researchers and teachers can be given access to material from the archive while in return delivering public value back in the form of improved data and information about its own collections for the BBC.
Chronicle will provide Authenticated Users with access to digitised copies of selected news material covering Northern Ireland and The Troubles, along with web-based tools allowing it to be searched, viewed and annotated.