As part of the BBC Academy and Arts Council England joint Building Digital Capacity programme, the SCA was very pleased to participate in its creative use of archive workshop. It focused on how to share existing archive content with an audience on a digital platform and explored new ways of engaging audiences with archive content.
The seminar, aimed at arts organisations and artists from across England, drew on a mixture of arts sector case studies and discussions about the many opportunities and issues associated with archive content.
Speakers included:
Roly Keating, Director of Archive Content, BBC
Andrew Nairne, Executive Director Arts, Arts Council England
Dr Paul Gerhardt, Digital Archives Associate for Arts Council England, Archives for Creativity
Professor Sarah Whatley, Professor of Dance, Coventry University
Cassandra Carias, Senior Associate, Harbottle & Lewis LLP
Naomi Korn, IP Consultant
Siobhan Davis, Siobhan Davis Studios
Get a flavour of the day from the videos below, which feature interviews with the SCA’s Sarah Fahmy, Stuart Dempster and Naomi Korn as well as many of the other speakers and participants in the event.
10:00 Wednesday 20 July – 16:00 Thursday 21 July 2011 at 115 New Cavendish Street, University of Westminster
This two day workshop leads participants to seek maximum value from online resources and activities. It does this by addressing the range of strategic and tactical considerations that determine effectiveness in this area-including an understanding of how the internet is evolving; the role of search engine optimisation; the importance of social networks; acknowledgement of relevant smart technologies. The course is provided by JISC Netskills and supported by JISC through the Strategic Content Alliance.
As the anniversary of the First World War approaches in 2014, JISC convened a roundtable meeting, kindly hosted by the Imperial War Museum, to discuss its own and other organisations’ plans for the forthcoming anniversary. Continue reading ‘First World War digital commemoration roundtable’
the need for institutions to develop the necessary skills and strategies to embed digitisation within institutional strategies and practices as well as devise effective business models for the long term sustainability of digitised content
the need to break down silos of content by clustering existing and complementary digitised resources and enhancing their offerings, thus making them more relevant and usable for target users
The day will bring together a mixture of national and international speakers and representatives of the projects funded under the JISC eContent programme to discuss current challenges and opportunities.
We previewed the British Library’s Growing Knowledge – The Evolution of Research exhibition a few months ago in the last edition of Digital Content Quarterly magazine, along with an interview with its researcher-in-residence Aleks Krotoski (catch up with it here). The exhibition has now launched and looks fantastic. There are lots of tools to try out, including, for the first time in the UK, a prototype of Sony’s Ray Modeler: 360-degree Autostereoscopic Display. Through gesture controls, users can view static and moving 3D images and video, offering a glimpse of future collaborative working.
The exhibition also features a Microsoft Surface Table containing a digital version of the world’s longest painting, the 19th century Garibaldi Panorama. 4½ feet (1.4 metres) high, painted on both sides and 273 feet (83 metres) long, this treasure poses huge challenges for viewing in physical form. Using the virtual version, researchers can gather around the Surface table, scroll the entire panorama and expand, extract and zoom in on detail.
Twitter Dials at the British Library's Growing Knowledge exhibition
Particularly fun is the unique installation of UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Tweet-o-Meter (above), a series of analogue dials revealing the number of Tweets from capital cities around the world in real-time, showing the bridge between the digital and analogue worlds, and the ways that online information can be measured and linked to geographical data.
The exhibition is a great example of the value of partnership. The British Library has worked with corporations including Sony, Microsoft, HP and Haworth to bring the technology together, as well as public sector partners JISC and the BBC. Growing Knowledge could not have happened without this collaborative way of working.
Find out more in the video below, and you can visit the exhibition at the British Library until 16 July 2011.
The Strategic Content Alliance in partnership with JISC Netskills have been holding a series of workshops (with more planned in the future) on maximising the effectiveness of your online presence, aiming to improve search and discovery of online resources. These two-day workshops have tackled search engine optimisation (SEO) and related issues. They have also allowed participants to gain perspective on how a few basic rules, simple content planning, social media activity and metadata disciplines all contribute to the effectiveness of a website or online service. Additionally, participants have been encouraged to do a bit of crystal ball-gazing into emerging search engine enhancements and to consider the evolving web and near future scenarios.
The Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills are holding a number of FREE two-day workshops on maximising the effectiveness of your online presence. They will take place over the next two months in Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester and London.
These workshops address the importance issue of search engine optimisation and many related issues. Participants will gain a perspective on how basic guidelines, simple content planning, social media activities and use of metadata, all contribute to the effectiveness of a website.
The role of IPR and licensing with the context of digital content creation and curation
Introduction to the Alliance’s IPR and Licensing Toolkit with group persona/scenario sessions
A watching brief of new developments and topical issues which are informing IPR debate and/or policy, including orphan works and the Digital Economy Act updates
Case law examples of IPR legislation ‘in action’ and the role of risk-managed approach to content creation and curation
When and where: 28th September 2010, 10.15am-3.15pm, JISC London Offices
Facilitated by Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy
Register at: https://www.eventsforce.net/jisc/60/home
The Strategic Content Alliance works on behalf of the public sector to reduce the barriers that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of digital content and to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded content can gain best value from the investment that has been made. Find out more
