The Strategic Content Alliance is delighted to announce a series of workshops across the UK during June and July aimed at senior policy makers and practitioners involved in the delivery of online content and services over the internet. The events will deliver enhanced professional understanding, as well as the opportunity to evaluate and critique the following alliance areas of works:
• Audience Analysis – meet user needs
• Business Modelling and Sustainability
• Intellectual Property Rights and Licencing
• Introduction to Digipedia – a moderated wiki aimed at synthesising the digital content life-cycle information and knowledge from authoritative sources
The workshops are designed to appeal anyone involved in the digital content lifecycle from creation to curation.
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Strategic Content Alliance publications relating to Audience, Business Modelling and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) can now be found on their own pages, as well as in the main Publications area. These pages will be updated as new publications become available.
Audience publications
Business modelling publications
IPR publications
The Strategic Content Alliance is delighted to announce a series of workshops across the UK during June and July aimed at senior policy makers and practitioners involved in the delivery of online content and services over the internet.
Continue reading ‘Diary dates: UK-wide online content workshops’
The Strategic Content Alliance has developed a comprehensive range of publications covering some of its key areas of work. These are now available to download as PDFs, for free, from the Publications area of the blog (the link can also be found in the ‘page menu’ on the right). There you will find Audience Research and IPR toolkits, including guides, navigations maps, briefing papers and factsheets. Publications relating to other areas of the Alliance’s work will be added in the near future.
On March 25, the Strategic Content Alliance hosted a Peer Review Workshop on the topic of the Case Studies in Sustainability project conducted this year by Ithaka.
Last year, Ithaka’s report on Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources outlined a range of economic models in use as well as several important organisational and cultural factors that helped leaders of digital projects to succeed.With the funding of JISC and the Strategic Content Alliance, Ithaka then researched case studies from organisations in the UK, France, Germany, Egypt and the United States and presented them at the workshop.
Notes from the lively meeting are available to read and download (as a Word document) below, along with Kevin Guthrie’s Powerpoint presentation.
A wiki was set up for the event and that attendees are very welcome and encouraged to post any thoughts/ feedback here. The link is still active at: https://wiki.jisc.ac.uk/display/sca/Case+Studies and the usernames/passwords sent to all attendees before the event can still be used to access the wiki.
Download the notes from the workshop as a Word document:
Notes from the SCA/Ithaka sustainability case studies workshop
Download Kevin Guthrie’s Sustainability Case Studies presentation (Powerpoint)
Kevin Guthrie’s Sustainability Case Studies presentation (Powerpoint)
Read on for the workshop notes…
Continue reading ‘Workshop notes: Case Studies in Sustainability’
We are pleased to invite you to attend a Peer Review Workshop on the topic of the Case Studies in Sustainability project conducted this year by Ithaka, with the support of JISC and the SCA.
The workshop will take place on Wednesday 25th March from 10am until 4.30pm at the Regent’s College Conference Centre, London.
Last year, Ithaka’s report on Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources outlined a range of economic models in use as well as several important organisational and cultural factors that helped leaders of digital projects to succeed. Feedback from peer review workshops last spring suggested it would be very valuable to have more detail about specific cases. This would allow a deeper exploration into the complexity of models now in place and the web of factors which can encourage their success or lead to their downfall. Given the current economic climate, questions of ongoing financial support for digital projects are more pressing than ever.
With the funding of JISC and the SCA, Ithaka has researched case studies from organisations in the UK, France, Germany, Egypt and the United States and will be presenting them, as well as a paper on the overall findings from the study, at a Peer Review Workshop on March 25, 2009. We hope that you will be able to join us to discuss the cases and the paper in depth, and to learn from your peers who are grappling with similar issues. We believe that the cases represent a wide range of critical issues that we are all dealing with and we hope that you will take time to read through as many as you are able to in advance of the meeting.
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On 8 May the SCA and Ithaka met in New York for a workshop held to discuss Ithaka’s paper on sustainability of online academic resources (a parallel event had been held in Lon in April, details here).
Below, and attached as a Word document, are Kevin Guthrie’s notes on some of the main themes that arose during the session. It includes a list of next steps that were identified for research or concrete measures that would advance sustainability.
We welcome your feedback on the recommendations as well as the notes, especially your sense of what possibilities strike you as having the highest priority. Over the coming weeks, we will be following up to assess what Ithaka and other organisations might do to act on these ideas. Thanks in advance for any input you can provide.
Continue reading ‘SCA/Ithaka sustainability study: New York session notes’
A final version of the Ithaka report on Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources is now available to download.
Read on for the Executive Summary and to download the full report as a pdf.
Continue reading ‘Download: Final Ithaka report on sustainability’
Business models and sustainability in the digital age: a peer reviewing workshop is currently taking place at the Wellcome Trust in London, led by Kevin Guthrie of Ithaka. Under discussion is the Ithaka-produced report on sustainability and business models.
Read on for a report of the first session: Continue reading ‘SCA/Ithaka Workshop: sustainability in the digital age’
A peer-reviewing workshop is being held today at the Wellcome Trust, London to share reactions to the initial report on sustainability and business models for online academic resources produced by Ithaka. A further event will be held in New York later this month. Read reports of events here in London on the blog throughout the day and download the full report:
Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: draft report by Kevin Guthrie, Rebecca Griffiths, Nancy Maron