Possible themes: Business models/partnerships/roles Governance, licencing Tools and infrastructure Communities of practice Advocacy and tools for this Read on for the discussion of future plans…

Photos from last night’s Symposium reception have been uploaded to the JISC Digitisation Flickr account and can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscdigi

As events in Cardiff move on to the main part of the Digitisation Conference, so too will the blog coverage. Live reports from the next two days will be on the Digitisation Blog. But do keep checking back here over the conference period as further podcasts from the Symposium will be uploaded, plus coverage of [...]

What trends do you see in technical infrastructure and shared services? Where should we target our efforts, individually and collectively? Listen to a podcast of this workshop (41:42)

How can we lever greater collaboration and cooperation in the development of e-content standards, tools and architectures? Moderator Stuart Dempster began the session by acknowledging that the language of digitisation can be a barrier to collaboration and cooperation. Depending where you come from the vernacular changes eg users, stakeholders, audience? There is no lingua franca [...]

What business models have been developed to sustain and improve the provision of e-content to the citizen? What economic indicators do funders and/or publishers use in assessing the cost/benefit of mass digitisation? Moderator Peter Kaufman kicked off the discussion with a timely tale about Prince  or, rather, the Artist Formerly known as Prince. Last weekend [...]

Sarah Porter, Kevin Guthrie and Pat Manson started the discussion with an overview of what they each consider to be the “big issues” in e-content.