Naomi Korn Consulting, commissioned by the Alliance has produced this short briefing paper on how Creative Commons (CC) licences can be embedded within digital resources created and managed by publically funded organizations. The paper aims to give an overview on the benefits of CC licence usage, some considerations to take into account before applying the licences as well as a ‘how to’ guide for embedding and come useful links. This paper accompanies further information on CC licences produced by the Strategic Content Alliance.
In addition, Naomi Korn Consulting has produced an A3 poster that explains the IPR position for organisations dealing with Orphan Works and how they can prevent more Orphan Works being created.
This poster can be printed and displayed within your organisations’ offices, libraries, reading and meeting rooms to draw attention and help staff and students understand some of the issues surrounding Orphan Works.
Download: Embedding Creative Commons Licences briefing paper March 2011 v1-04
Download: Orphan Works Poster
The latest briefing paper from the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR consultant, Naomi Korn, offers some practical suggestions for public sector organisations to help ensure compliance with the Digital Economy Act, including a four step guide. Download the PDF here:
Practical Suggestions to Remain Compliant with the Digital Economy Act: Naomi Korn, SCA IPR consultant, June 2010
Can just a few simple and inexpensive search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques can increase the visibility of an organisation’s online content and the number of users to its website? JISC explored this hypothesis with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and three UK organisations. Read on to find out more and download the report that tracks the success and potential pitfalls for organisations undertaking this work.
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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.
Continue reading ‘Sustaining Digital Resources: new Funders Preface version’
For public bodies, understanding the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing in their capacity as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital content is essential in their role in the digital content lifecycle from creation to curation, to ensure that they can deliver publically funded content. Three briefing papers have been prepared by Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance, so that public sector agencies can learn more about IPR management on an operational and strategic level as well as having links to sources of other essential information.
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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.
Continue reading ‘Sustainability at a glance’
The Strategic Content Alliance has published a range of resources in key areas, from Audience and IPR to Business Models. The toolkits include briefing papers, visualisation guides and case studies.
If you have used any of these resources we would really like to know how helpful they were to you and any improvements you think should be made. This will help us to make any further versions of these toolkits better, and effectively target future publications.
We would welcome your feedback via the online survey:
http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/sca/
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Tens of millions of dollars, pounds and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for–profit sector. As institutional budgets tighten, will these digital resources be able to survive and thrive?
A new study, released today by Ithaka S+R and the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, illustrates the varied and creative ways in which leaders of digital initiatives, particularly those developed in the higher education and cultural heritage sectors, are managing to identify sources of support and generate revenue. Read on for links to download the report and all the case studies.
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The Strategic Content Alliance is pleased to publish the latest Curtis+Cartwright Audience Research guides, along with two sets of presentation slides aimed at policymakers and practitioners. They are all available for download as PDFs, linked below and also on the Publications page.
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In 2008 the Strategic Content Alliance asked Intelligent TV in New York to report on new business opportunities to support commercial and educational institutions putting their digital content online. Following research and interviews with senior executives, faculty, and staff at commercial enterprises and nonprofit organisations, including the Atlantic Magazine Group, the British Library, Cablevision, Columbia University, Condé Nast, New York University, the Open University, Princeton University and many more, it has produced this paper (PDF):
On Building a New Market for Culture: Virtue and necessity in a screen-based economy
It proposes that institutions responsible for culture and education examine their roles and responsibilities through the prism of three forces now shaping the future of the digital economy: mass digitisation, the erosion of digital rights protection, and commercialisation.
It suggests that cultural and educational institutions should explore ways of securing advertising and sponsorship revenue from commercial companies, and consider forming an advertising network to market their materials to corporate advertisers