Robert Miller, Director of Books at the Internet Archive, describes the Archive’s innovative structure and discusses how it is tackling the funding challenges of the moment
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Kevin Guthrie, president of Ithaka, discusses the big issues affecting funders and describes the work Ithaka and the Strategic Content Alliance are doing to help funders and projects become more sustainable.
Gabrielle Blais, Director of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), explains how CHIN saw off the recession of the 90s and offers advice to organisations in a similar situation today.
The JISC Funders’ Forum on Sustaining Digital Resources on 7 May 2010 followed a successful video conference held on 30 July 2009. This brought together public and not-for-profit sector funders in the UK, US and Canada to discuss and review funders approaches to developing sustainable digital resources. This year’s event provided a forum for a wider audience of organisations who are grappling with this issue. The event highlighted successful business models being used by projects; funder’s methodologies; new research and emergent trends on the development of effective business models for digital resources from across the globe. Powerpoint presentations from the day are available here:
Kevin Guthrie, President of Ithaka/JSTOR: The Big Issues
Brian Lavoie, OCLC: Emergent Trends: Blue Ribbon Sustainability Task Force Report
Concluding remarks by Prof David Baker, Deputy Chair of JISC
FREE BRIEFING from the Strategic Content Alliance exploring Business Modelling/ Sustainability challenges, examples and tips for the long-term sustainability of grant-funded digital resources.
Wednesday 14th April 2010 9.30-11.30 am, London.
Read on to find out more and to register.
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The US Google Book Settlement and its potential implications has captured the attention and imagination of a range of people, from those working within higher and further education to publishers, authors, libraries, museums and archives. Google’s initiative has seen approximately seven million books digitised by the search engine company through partnerships with libraries, publishers and authors, and interest has grown as developments have slowly unfolded.
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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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 online survey asking for your feedback on Strategic Content Alliance resources has now closed and the winner of the Amazon vouchers has been selected at random from the entrants who completed all the fields. Thank you to everyone who took part – your feedback is extremely helpful and will be used to improve future versions of the toolkits.
On behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance, many thanks to all of those people who attended the Alliance workshops around the country (15 in all!) over June and July 2009.
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