Organisations are making tough decisions about the digital content that they own or manage and whether it would be desirable and/or possible to consider ways in which this content can be commercialised under a range of business models or indeed, kept ‘open’. It is essential that such decisions are not taken in isolation but included within a wider digital strategy. Fundamental to developing such a strategy is whether the organisation owns or is able to ‘licence in’ third party content for the purpose that the organisation would wish, whether this is commercial or otherwise. In essence, ‘rights in’ should mirror ‘rights out’ and may differ according to the different content that the organisation owns or manages.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed Naomi Korn (IP consultant for JISC) to consider how universities can deal with these issues in order to make the most informed choices when developing their digital strategy for content. These videos (licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence) allow for individuals or organisations to embed or repurpose them for their own specific audiences. Please follow the links below to view the videos most relevant to your sector:

IPR and sustainability for universities:

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IPR and sustainability for libraries

IPR and sustainability for museums

Organisations are making tough decisions about the digital content that they own or manage and whether it would be desirable and/or possible to consider ways in which this content can be commercialised under a range of business models or indeed, kept ‘open’. It is essential that such decisions are not taken in isolation but included within a wider digital strategy. Fundamental to developing such a strategy is whether the organisation owns or is able to ‘licence in’ third party content for the purpose that the organisation would wish, whether this is commercial or otherwise. In essence, ‘rights in’ should mirror ‘rights out’ and may differ according to the different content that the organisation owns or manages.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed Naomi Korn (IP consultant for JISC) to consider how universities can deal with these issues in order to make the most informed choices when developing their digital strategy for content.

IPR and sustainability for universities’ digital resources

Click here to view the embedded video.

Organisations are making tough decisions about the digital content that they own or manage and whether it would be desirable and/or possible to consider ways in which this content can be commercialised under a range of business models or indeed, kept ‘open’. It is essential that such decisions are not taken in isolation but included within a wider digital strategy. Fundamental to developing such a strategy is whether the organisation owns or is able to ‘licence in’ third party content for the purpose that the organisation would wish, whether this is commercial or otherwise. In essence, ‘rights in’ should mirror ‘rights out’ and may differ according to the different content that the organisation owns or manages.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed Naomi Korn (IP consultant for JISC) to consider how universities can deal with these issues in order to make the most informed choices when developing their digital strategy for content.

IPR and sustainability for libraries’ digital resources

Click here to view the embedded video.

Organisations are making tough decisions about the digital content that they own or manage and whether it would be desirable and/or possible to consider ways in which this content can be commercialised under a range of business models or indeed, kept ‘open’. It is essential that such decisions are not taken in isolation but included within a wider digital strategy. Fundamental to developing such a strategy is whether the organisation owns or is able to ‘licence in’ third party content for the purpose that the organisation would wish, whether this is commercial or otherwise. In essence, ‘rights in’ should mirror ‘rights out’ and may differ according to the different content that the organisation owns or manages.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed Naomi Korn (IP consultant for JISC) to consider how universities can deal with these issues in order to make the most informed choices when developing their digital strategy for content.

IPR and sustainability for museums’ digital resources

Click here to view the embedded video.

Split into parts or available as full versions, the videos (under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence) allow for individuals or organisations to embed or repurpose the relevant sections for their own specific audiences. Please follow the links below to view the videos most relevant to your sector:

Video lecture series: Sustaining Digital Resources for Universities
Video lecture series: Sustaining Digital Resources for Museums
Video lecture series: Sustaining Digital Resources for Libraries

Universities are one such community and have been at the cutting edge of such developments within the digital world in terms of facilitating tactical and strategic change for the benefit of educational and research. Still, systems for creating content are still at a stage of experimentation, and the path from initial funding to long-term sustainability can be challenging.

Since 2007, Ithaka S+R and the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance have led the way in examining ways that the academic and cultural heritage sectors are defining sustainability and helping to make sure that the digital resources will endure and provide value well beyond the term of the grant. In 2012, two years and one economic crisis later, this essential research is more important than ever.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed with Nancy Maron (sustainability expert at Ithaka S+R) to consider how universities can deal with these issues in a challenging economic environment.

Watch the videos…

Watch it in full (16:10):

Sustaining Digital Resources for Universities

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Watch it in parts:

Sustaining Digital Resources (1/3) – Introduction for Universities (5:32)

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Sustaining Digital Resources (2/3) – Five things sustainable projects do (5:03)

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Sustaining Digital Resources (3/3) – Revenue, recession and reliance (6:11)

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Also in this series, Sustaining Digital Resources for Museums and Sustaining Digital Resources for Libraries

Museums are one such community and have been at the cutting edge of such developments within the digital world in terms of facilitating tactical and strategic change for the benefit of educational and research. Still, systems for creating content are still in a stage of experimentation, and the path from initial funding to long-term sustainability can be challenging.

Since 2007, Ithaka S+R and the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance have led the way in examining ways that the academic and cultural heritage sectors are defining sustainability and helping to make sure that the digital resources will endure and provide value well beyond the term of the grant. In 2012, two years and one economic crisis later, this essential research is more important than ever.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed with Nancy Maron (sustainability expert at Ithaka S+R) to consider how museums can deal with these issues in a challenging economic environment.

Watch the videos…

Watch it in full (16:02):

Sustaining Digital Resources for Museums

Click here to view the embedded video.

Watch it in parts:

Sustaining Digital Resources (1/3) – Introduction for Museums (5:24)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Also in this series, Sustaining Digital Resources for Universities and Sustaining Digital Resources for Libraries

Since 2007, Ithaka S+R and the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance have led the way in examining ways that the academic and cultural heritage sectors are defining sustainability and helping to make sure that the digital resources will endure and provide value well beyond the term of the grant. In 2012, two years and one economic crisis later, this essential research is more important than ever.

Designed to aid understanding and offer guidance, the following video lecture series has been developed with Nancy Maron (sustainability expert at Ithaka S+R) to consider how libraries can deal with these issues in a challenging economic environment.

Watch the videos…

Watch the full version (16:14):

Sustaining Digital Resources for Libraries

Click here to view the embedded video.

Watch it in parts:
Sustaining Digital Resources (1/3) – Introduction for Libraries (5:38)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Also in this series, Sustaining Digital Resources for Universities and Sustaining Digital Resources for Museums

In partnership, the BBC, JISC and the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC), today announce the launch of Chronicle, a project to make BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 1960s and 1970s available to the academic community online.

The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was founded in the 1920s but it remains largely inaccessible, held on film or videotape and managed to serve the needs of programme-makers within the BBC.

Chronicle, makes part of that archive available to UK higher and further education by digitising news and current affairs programmes from the BBC Northern Ireland’s vaults. This gives teachers, students and researchers the chance to explore and immerse themselves in the events over an important period (1963-1976) of Northern Ireland’s history, delivering a rich and contextual experience from a political, historical and cultural perspective.

After several years of informal collaboration between the BBC and JISC, today also marks the start of a new partnership as the two organisations sign a Memorandum of Understanding, to support the promotion of their common purposes, especially with regard to education, learning and culture.  Signed by Caroline Thomson, BBC Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Secretary, Professor Martyn Harrow at the New Broadcasting House and managed by a joint steering committee, the MOU will enable the two organisations to develop their joint interest in encouraging the creation and use of a wide range of audio visual and cultural assets to support education, research and public use.

Chronicle will provide Authenticated Users with access to digitised copies of news and current affairs material covering Northern Ireland and ‘The Troubles’, along with web-based tools allowing it to be searched, viewed and annotated.

Other advantages of this project are considerable, not least as there exists very little audiovisual content, covering Northern Ireland historically, politically or culturally during the sixties and seventies in any depth, even though a number of organisations and academics have indicated a ‘significant need’ for such materials. Additionally, there was a strong archival need to digitise the material from the period: between 1963 and 1981 news material was recorded on 16mm film and a significant proportion of this footage is now in need of preservation while coverage from 1981 onward was recorded on Beta or Digibeta tape and at much less risk of deterioration.

The project has also been shaped by an Academic Steering Group made up of scholars from participating institutions (University of Westminster, Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Ulster, St Mary’s University College and Royal Holloway University of London) who are reviewing the academic value of the project as it runs.

Martin Doherty, Department of Social and Historical Studies, University of Westminster says: “The value of the BBC Northern Ireland News footage cannot be overstated. Access to this corpus of materials means that at the same time as fostering understanding and appreciation of ‘The Troubles’ within education, the academy is also given the opportunity to build on this through new avenues of research using innovative techniques.”

Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, BBC says: “The BBC is committed to making the best possible use of its enormous archive, and this project is an important step forward in finding ways to use archive material to serve both the academic community and the BBC’s broader public purposes. We are very excited to be able to share this significant collection, not only because of the light it will shed on recent history but because we will be able to apply the expertise gained to other archive-related activities across the BBC.”

Martyn Harrow, Executive Secretary, JISC says: “Partnerships like this one with the BBC are extremely important to us. We are able to share our respective knowledge, skills and resources for the ‘common good’ of British creativity, ingenuity and economic growth. Working together shows how archive content can be ‘opened up’ for the benefit of higher and further education which in the case of this project means it provides the opportunity for rich content to be embedded into teaching, learning and research.”

Luís Carrasqueiro, Chief Executive British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) says: “I am delighted that this unique collection – which has not been seen since broadcast – will be available for learning and research. Television news is arguably the most dominant medium informing and reflecting public opinion. This news coverage is essential in understanding the history of Northern Ireland: including the Troubles but also fashion, architecture, journalism, religion, sports, and daily life. The BUFVC has worked for more than 60 years in placing the moving image alongside text as a scholarly asset, this new resource is yet another step in that direction.”

Chronicle can be accessed at: http://chronicle.bufvc.ac.uk/

A preview of Chronicles functionality is also available at: http://bufvc.ac.uk/preview-chronicle-bbc-northern-ireland-news

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Partnership, open and legacy were key words at the first world war digital centenary planning meeting held at the Imperial War Museum on March 27 when representatives from the UK’s leading academic, cultural and heritage organisations met to share plans for the centenary, explore ways of working together and discuss JISC’s white paper for the first world war digital commemoration planning meeting.

Notes from the meeting

There are summary notes of the discussion which provide an overview of the main topic covered, key points and next steps. There are also full notes of the meeting which go into much more depth. The notes are cross-referenced.

Presentations (all ppt)

Stuart Lee’s presentation

Patricia Methven’s presentation

Lorna Hughes’s presentation

Kate Lindsay’s presentation

Jon Purday’s presentation

Gina Koutsika and Luke Smith’s presentation

Sarah Fahmy’s presentation