Delegates are starting to gather here in the Park Plaza Hotel in Cardiff for the SCA Wales Forum. The event will be opened by Leighton Andrews AM, Deputy Minister for Regeneration at the Welsh Assembly Government (pictured, right) and then the programme will cover:
- New Opportunities for Copyright Reform and the Changing Legal Landscape: Professor Charles Oppenheim
- NHS and HE partnership in Wales and what this could mean for other cross sector collaboration: Janet Peters, University of Cardiff
- Case Study (JISC Collections) The e-Books Observatory Project, CIBER and new technologies: Caren Milloy, JISC Collections
- Hosted Digital Repositories – implications for Wales and the other home nations: Neil Jacobs, JISC
- BBC UK CenturyShare – Cross Sector Collaboration in Action and Welsh Involvement: Simon Delafond, BBC
- Business Models and Sustainability, SCA Business Models and Sustainability: Nancy Moran (by phone), Ithaka
- Closing remarks and Future Plans in developing the UK Content Framework
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We’re pleased to announce that Leighton Andrews AM, the Deputy Minister for Regeneration at the Welsh Assembly Government, will be opening the SCA Wales Forum on Wednesday.
Also speaking at the event will be Simon Delafond of the BBC, Janet Peters from the University of Cardiff, Nancy Moran of Ithaka and Professor Charles Oppenheim.
Download the full programme here, and follow the day as it happens here on the blog.
NB: The Forum programmes have now been updated. If you downloaded your programme before 21 September, please replace it with the version available below.
The full programmes for the upcoming autumn round of SCA Home Nations Forums are now available and can be downloaded, below, as Word files.
Registration for all these events is now available online at http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/scaforums_2008_2
We are delighted to announce the next series of Home Nations Forums:
- Scotland Forum: 25 September 2008, 10am-3pm Apex City Hotel, Edinburgh
- Northern Ireland Forum: 2 October, 10am-3pm, Radisson SAS Hotel, Belfast
- Wales Forum: 8 October 2008, 10am-3pm, Park Plaza Cardiff
We see these Home Nations events as an opportunity to share knowledge and seek input from experts in these areas of the UK. We very much look forward to sharing the work of the SCA, learning more about the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish environments, and looking at how we can work together.
Presentations and updates on the following subject areas will be featured:
- BBC UK CenturyShare, update from Simon Delafond
- Changes to the EU Copyright Legislation
- Audience Analysis Update
- Content Framework and JISC future investment in content creation
- National Library for Health (Cardiff only)
Registration for all these events is now available online at http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/scaforums_2008_2
The full programme will be available here on the blog shortly.
The second SCA Wales forum, held in Cardiff on 5 June, was opened by Dr Rhidian Griffiths, Director of Public Services at the National Library of Wales. He highlighted the importance of partnership in expanding access to online resources, mentioning the Library’s ‘digital mirror’project, its archive of the Welsh in Ohio, and library.wales.org as examples of how the NLW is working with other organisations to provide sustainable collections.
“Digital developments will also throw up questions about IP and new thinking about creators and users and their rights,” said Dr Griffiths.
“The balance is shifting in the digital world. It will promote new thinking about sustainability, thinking not only about this generation’s audience but audiences in generations to come. There are also considerations of widening access and defining new audiences and audiences who will function in different ways to the traditional. The aim is to give that wider audience a deeper understanding of what exists in our libraries museums and archives.”
Read on for coverage of Chris Batt’s presentation on audiences, Naomi Korn’s testbedding of a new model of IPR, and how the breakout session on business models asked itself ‘how do you solve a problem like JANET’? Continue reading ‘Wales forum: Audiences, IPR and business models’
In order for the SCA to progress its mission to build a UK Content Framework, it is integral that we collaborate with the devolved administrations specifically and agencies and organisations with a Scottish, Northern Ireland and Welsh perspective more broadly.
We see these ‘Home Nations’ events as an opportunity to share knowledge and seek input from experts in these areas of the UK. We very much look forward to introducing the work of the SCA, learning more about the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish environments, and looking at how we can work together.
We are delighted to announce the next series of Home Nations Forums:
- Scotland Forum: Edinburgh, May 22
- Northern Ireland Forum: Belfast, May 29
- Wales Forum: Cardiff, June 5
Contact Emma Beer if you are interested in attending these events or receiving more information about them.
Click through below to read the programme for each of these events.
Scotland Forum May 2008 Agenda
Northern Ireland Forum May 2008 Agenda
Wales Forum June 2008 Agenda
We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Strategic Content Alliance Wales Forum. Places for this event are strictly limited. This event is designed for people involved in policy and strategy for digital content as well as those involved in the creation of digital content for lifelong learning.
Read on to find out more about the inaugural Wales Forum and to see the agenda.
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