1. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 1 Navigating a sea of stories: new online resources from the JISC Digitisation programme www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisationFive centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 2008: John Johnson Collection Copyright © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved Paola Marchionni JISC Digitisation Programme Manager p.marchionni@jisc.ac.uk Open University 20 February 2009

2. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 2 New online resources Some video clips on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/jiscmedia http://www.youtube.com/jiscmedia Newsfilm OnlineWW1 Poetry Digital Archive British Cartoons Archive Cabinet Papers: 1915-1978 John Johnson Collection and more to come…

3. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 3 First World War Poetry Digital Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit - Open access www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Collections: search by poets, media, keyword Education section – Tutorials (KS1 to undergraduate): can be used as course supplement, further reading, teaching aids – Pathways: annotated trails with archive material, all level, teachers can add new ones, (download, print, zoom, see catalogue record…) – Resources packs (schools) – Podcasts The Great War Archive

4. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 4 Cabinet Papers: 1915-1978 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ - Open access www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ Thematic approach – Contextualisation packages about UK and the world, economy, society and welfare linked to cabinet papers Writing frame – Interactive writing tool to support the use and investigation of historical primary sources in a structured way Interactive maps – Links to cabinet papers and downloadable information

5. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 5 Newsfilm Online www.nfo.ac.uk – Authentication required www.nfo.ac.uk Collections searchable by decade and keywords E-learning framework, by Simon Atkinson and Kevin Burden – Based on two axis: spaces (eg small lecture theatre) and learning design (empathy, conceptualisation, analogy, authoring etc…) – Pedagogical exemplars (different approaches to using videos) – Case studies, eg Skipton College on moral panic through the decades Technical tutorials – Practical guidance on using, downloading, editing video clips

6. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 6 Navigating a sea of stories What can you do with all these resources? Enhancing teaching and learning Use different and primary sources to explore a topic Interdisciplinary studies Make research quicker Explore new links and research questions Download Include in assignments and presentations Mss of poem “Dulce et Decorum est”, Wilfred Owen War cabinet document WW1 cocoa advert

7. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 7 What is JISC? What is JISC and what does it do? – Supports the use of ICT in research, teaching and learning – Focus on post-16 and HE – Funds innovative projects in: e- resources, e-learning, e-research, information environment etc… – Provides support, guidance and advice to institutions through its services, eg JISC Digital Media, JISC Legal, InfoNet, Janet etc… – Funded by UK post-16 and HE funding councils

8. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 8 Digitisation programme Digitisation programme: – Building sustainable and authoritative e- resources for the benefit of UK teaching, learning and research Started in 2004, 6 projects, £10m Phase 2, 2007-09, 16 new projects, £12m Enriching Digital resources, 2008-09, 25 projects, £2m Variety of collections and media: sound recordings, British newspapers, medical journals, radio and TV programmes, parliamentary papers, cartoons, poetry, Irish and Welsh journals and monographs, maps, theatre and entertainment…

9. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 9 Some key issues Some key issues for digitisation projects and the experience of the JISC Digitisation programme What should I digitise? Content selection Which metadata schema should I use? Who does the content belong to and what do I want to do with it? Licencing and IPR Who is the collection for and how do I engage users? Who and how will maintain the resource? Sustainability

10. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 10 Content selection What should I digitise? – Current and potential use of a collection and users needs – Alignment with teaching and research priorities – Links with the curriculum – Alignment with Institution’s content development/digitisation strategy, if in place – Potential for interdisciplinarity, increased use – Wide appeal and interest – IPR and preservation issues – Set up an Advisory board of subject specialists

11. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 11 Content selection Freeze Frame – 20,000 images recording polar exploration – Project identified courses and curricula where project could have impact – University – Geology, Biology, Anthropology, etc. – Colleges and Schools – Art and Design, History, Geography etc. – Construction of learning work packages built into project plan JISC DiSCMap Study on priority collections for digitisation

12. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 12 Metadata Which metadata schema should I use? – Can be time consuming to produce, especially human created ones – Decide what information needs to be recorded for the institution and for the users – Investigate existing metadata provision – Available resources, staff, time, budget, infrastructure – Have a plan B in case you need to re-allocate resources towards metadata creation – Devise metadata approach and strategy from the beginning and document – Importance of using metadata standards adopted by your community – Can your users help? Self-tagging

13. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 13 Metadata Commonly used metadata schema by JISC projects: – Dublin Core, ISAD(G), MARC, MODS, GIS, TEI, METS, PREMIS National Library of Wales – 400,000 pages from 19 th and 20 th journals on Welsh history, culture and society – Use TEI to catalogue parts of journals Independent Radio News Archive/LBC – 3000 hours of audio recording from Britain’s first commercial radio – Example of dealing with legacy metadata

14. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 14 Content licencing Who does the content belong to and what do I want to do with it? Two sides of the same coin: – Who owns copyright of the content to be digitised? – What will users be able to do with it? Some issue to consider: – Copyright clearance is a very time- consuming process – It can be expensive – Be clear about what you need to licence content for, ie what users can do – Variety of copyright layers in some type of materials – Orphan works: keep a due diligence file – Always seek legal advice – Exercise in risk assessment Dramatic works Text-based works Dramatic works Films Music Broadcast Sound recordings Typographic works Categories of works protected by copyright

15. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 15 Content licencing JISC Model licence – UK HE and FE sector – for the purpose of education… – eg copying, downloading, inclusion in course packs, assignments, presentation etc JISC Collections Open Educational Content Licence (for open access resources) – Open access non commercial educational purposes only licence – Permitted usage is explicitly much broader than in Creative Commons licences Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) IPR toolkit (out March 2009): guidance papers and practical tool

16. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 16 User engagement Who is the collection for and how do I engage users? – Be clear about core user group/s and current and potential use of the collection – Set up advisory group of subject specialists and users group – Find out more about users requirements (focus groups, surveys) – Invest time in usability testing – Create an engaging and interactive web site – Tell your users about your resource, be “findable” (expose your metadata widely, exploit social networking tools) – Find out how users are using your resource - Impact

17. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 17 User engagement First World War Poetry Archive – The Great War archive: galvanising communities out there – On Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia Pre-Raphaelite resource – 3000 images of works by Pre-Raphaelite painters and related resources – Audience research on usefulness of Web2.0 tools on scholarly resources JISC Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (out Apr 2009) SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit

18. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 18 Sustainability Who and how will maintain the resource? – Problem of “project-based” funding model for many digitisation projects – Tension between sustainability and open access: somebody has to pay – Ideally digitisation should be embedded into institutional strategies, practices, processes and infrastructure – Variety of sustainability models (commercial partnership, subscription, ads, institutional support, use of existing infrastructure…)

19. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 19 Sustainability John Johnson Collection – 65,000 images of printed ephemera – Partnership between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest – Free to UK HE, FE and public libraries, subscription abroad Historic Boundaries of Britain – Historical boundaries maps – Google ads 19 th Century Pamphlets – 23,000 pamphlets – Delivery by JSTOR

20. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 20 Some useful resources JISC Digitisation programme and projects: www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisationwww.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation JISC Digitisation Blog: http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/ Content Selection – DiSCMap project, Digitisation in Special Collections: Mapping, Assessment, Prioritisation http://discmap.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/http://discmap.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ Metadata – JISC Digital Media (ex-TASI) http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/ – JISC standards catalogue http://standards.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/Home.phtml http://standards.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/Home.phtml – UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/metadata/http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/metadata/ – SCA Standards report (out Mar 09) see SCA blog http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/ http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/

21. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 21 Some useful resources IPR – JISC Collections Open Educational Content Licence http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/jisc_c ollections_open_educational_user_licence_v1.0.doc http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/jisc_c ollections_open_educational_user_licence_v1.0.doc – Web2Rights toolkit http://www.web2rights.org.uk/diagnostic.htmlhttp://www.web2rights.org.uk/diagnostic.html – SCA IPR toolkit (out Mar 09), see SCA blog http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/ User engagement – Pre-Raphaelite audience research on Web2.0 http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/07/is-academia-ready-for- web-20/ http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/07/is-academia-ready-for- web-20/ – SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2009/02/05/download-audience-analysis- toolkit (more in March 09) http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/2009/02/05/download-audience-analysis- toolkit – Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (out Apr 09) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51 – The ideal digital humanities project checklist, LAIRAH study http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/circah/lairah/features/ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/circah/lairah/features/

22. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 22 Some useful resources Sustainability – SCA/Ithaka report on Sustainability and Business Models http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/06/sca_ithaka_sustaina bility_report-final.pdf http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/06/sca_ithaka_sustaina bility_report-final.pdf

23. Navigating a sea of stories… Joint Information Systems Committee Open University | 20 February 2009 | Slide 23 Navigating a sea of stories… First World War Poetry Digital Archive – open access – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Cabinet Papers 1915-1978 – open access – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ The John Johnson Collection - authentication – http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk British Cartoon Archive – open access – http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/ http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/ Newsfilm Online - authentication – http://www.nfo.ac.uk/ http://www.nfo.ac.uk/