The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is delighted that the Government has decided to endorse all the recommendations made by Professor Ian Hargreaves outlined within his independent review of Intellectual Property (IP) and Growth.
Stuart Dempster (Director, SCA) gives some personal thoughts on what this will mean for public bodies, business and the public
Nancy Maron of Ithaka S+R, which has produced a range of reports and resources for the Strategic Content Alliance on the subject of sustainability of digital resources, has created a framework to help project leaders define the steps needed to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Read on for the framework and to download the accompanying Powerpoint presentation.
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Last month the Strategic Content Alliance and Ithaka S+R published an influential new report on funding for sustainability.
The executive summary of the report is now available in UK and US versions. Download them here:
Funding For Sustainability Executive Summary (UK, July 2011)
Funding For Sustainability Executive Summary (US, July 2011)
(You can also find out more about the full report and download the full report: Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources (June 2011))
The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was founded in the 1920’s but it remains largely inaccessible, held on film or videotape and indexed to serve the needs of programme-makers within the BBC.
Chronicle is a new project that explores how material from the BBC’s extensive archive of news coverage of Northern Ireland can be made available for use in further and higher education, combining digitised film and video with tools which can be used to search and tag coverage to be used in research or teaching.
Delivered through a partnership between the JISC-funded Strategic Content Alliance, the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) and the BBC, Chronicle is one of several initiatives from the Archive Development group at the BBC. Its goal is to explore ways in which researchers and teachers can be given access to material from the archive while in return delivering public value back in the form of improved data and information about its own collections for the BBC.
Chronicle will provide Authenticated Users with access to digitised copies of selected news material covering Northern Ireland and The Troubles, along with web-based tools allowing it to be searched, viewed and annotated.
10:00 Wednesday 20 July – 16:00 Thursday 21 July 2011 at 115 New Cavendish Street, University of Westminster
This two day workshop leads participants to seek maximum value from online resources and activities. It does this by addressing the range of strategic and tactical considerations that determine effectiveness in this area-including an understanding of how the internet is evolving; the role of search engine optimisation; the importance of social networks; acknowledgement of relevant smart technologies. The course is provided by JISC Netskills and supported by JISC through the Strategic Content Alliance.
A new Strategic Content Alliance/Ithaka S+R report examines funding practices to provide insight on post-grant sustainability for digital resources
Ithaka S+R, funded by the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), released today Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources. This report, written by Nancy L Maron and Matthew Loy, provides funders of digital resources and their grantees with an overview of current funding practices and highlights areas for potential improvement in defining and planning for post-grant sustainability.
Download the full report: Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources (June 2011)
Read on to find out more
Yesterday the Hargreaves Review of IP, charged with independently reviewing how the Intellectual Property (IP) framework supports growth and innovation (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf), reported its recommendations.
The fundamental aim of the consultation was to identify barriers to growth within the IP framework, which consists of the rules and regulations covering how IP is created, used and protected in this country. Using evidence based responses, it has aimed create a picture of how well the current IP system serves to help promote entrepreneurialism, economic growth, social and commercial innovation.
The Strategic Content Alliance welcomes the recommendations of review in terms of the specific exceptions outlined as well as the commitment to furthering easy, widespread access to information and resources, putting technology and information management at the heart of research and education. It is hoped that if the recommendations are implemented, they will allow for and encourage exploitation, re-use of digital content as well as supporting research and learning.
Read on for the key recommendations
Continue reading ‘News: SCA supports recommendations outlined in the Hargreaves Review of IP’
Naomi Korn, the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR consultant, writes:
A judicial review of the measures to tackle online copyright infringement within the Digital Economy Act, which has been brought by BT and Talk Talk, has just ruled in favour of the Government. BT and Talk Talk claimed that the measures in the Digital Economy Act to cut the internet services of users who allegedly download illegal content such as music, films and books, were not compliant with EU law nor were proportionate. This argument was rejected by the judge, Mr Justice Kenneth Parke, who upheld the principle of the measures within the Act to tackle the unlawful downloading of copyright material.
Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?
A new elearning module from the Strategic Content Alliance is to help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and other public bodies.
Access the module at http://www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule
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Maximising online resource effectiveness is a new section on the SCA blog dedicated to reports, guides and case studies that summarise the key principles in this increasingly important area and present a condensed version of the highly successful series of workshops commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by JISC Netskills in 2010.
Find out more at Maximising online resource effectiveness