Impact, Aggregation, Partnership
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Impact, Aggregation, Partnership
Alastair DunningJISC Digitisation Programme Manager@alastairdunning
18th March 2011 - New Strategies for Digital Content
which are the really successful digitised resources?
in higher education: eebo, tlg, old bailey online, complete works of charles darwin (and more)
source: my personal opinionheadnote: there’s a whole messy argument about impact and value i’m skipping overalso worthy of mention: visual arts data service, british history online, archaeology data service, british cartoon archive, and many more ...
which are the really successful digital resources?
in education: PubMed central, Research Papers in Economics, arXiV
see: http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.asp
but also in education: wikipedia, flickr, google, google books
what do these resources have in common?
aggregationcritical massmultiple sources
thinking of the educational resources, how do we know they are successful? and more over why are they successful?
the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online
the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online
the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online
the complete works of charles darwin onlinethesaurus linguae graecaeeeboold bailey online
so this should give us some clear indications of how we want to build digitised resources in the future
drawing on multiple sources is necessary to offer a resource with a wide impact
now, turn to university digital / digitisation strategies
they are full of well considered points about
• seeking multiple funding sources• strategic engagement within the institution
• meeting user needs• preservation, sustainability
• and all the other things we go on about
but, how many of them have given thought to creating resources with others?
maybe a few. but it does not fit well with institutional strategies.
and if you want senior support and buy in for your digital strategy, it needs to fit in with your university’s focus
users (that, um, use the resources)
vs
universities (that provide the digitised resources)
a tension:
How should universities proceed?
commercial publishersE.g. ProQuest, Gale, Adam Matthews
non for profit platformsE.g. JSTOR, JISC Collections
a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with
but also other universities, collections holders and researchers
a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with
universities and other collections holders will have related content that
will make your content stronger
a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with
but why should university senior management want to host others’
collections?
a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with
because your university researchers can provide the expertise in curating
and editing the website
a tension ... that partnerships will help deal with
but more importantly, your university staff can use the resource to advance their teaching and research and raise
the university’s profile
the results: • new forms of ebook publishing
• undergraduates undertaking research• altered study of 18th century london – “history
from below”• widely used by general public• wiki for debate and discussion
• kudos for universities for hertfordshire and sheffield, and the researchers involved
c.200,000 criminal trials from Old Bailey, 1674 – 1913240,000 manuscripts from eight London archives and 15 datasets
but if my university’s content is constantly aggregated, will it not get lost?
well, maybe. but there’s nothing to stop you publishing your content by itself as well
indeed, publishing in multiple places and formats will increasing usage and impact. (just make sure your logo is visible)
ensure that your content is discoverable and aggregatable (sp!)
not only by portals and gateways, but by new media companies wishing to create interfaces
exposing metadata, developing application programming interfaces
non desktop access, esp. mobiles
again, partnerships with others will help with this
In Summary:
Medium Impact – Work well, but by yourself
High Impact – Identify others who can enrich your content for users, and work with them
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