Co-Curate: working with schools and communities to add value to Open collections

Co-Curate: working with schools and communities to add value to Open collections

Simon Cotterill *

Martyn Hudson *

Kat Lloyd *

James Outterside *

John Peterson *

John Coburn +

Ulrike Thomas *

Lucy Tiplady *

Phil Robinson %

Phil Heslop *

* Newcastle University + Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums % George Stephenson High School

https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/

Overview

• Introduction / Background

• Demonstration

• Outcomes

• Discussion

Aims of this paper: provide an overview of use of Open collections in both formal and informal educational contexts in Co-Curate and to share initial findings in relation to stakeholders knowledge and perceptions of both using and contributing Open licensed materials.

Introduction

• Cross-disciplinary initiative involving Newcastle University and partner organisations

• Working with schools and community groups in the North of England

• 18 month project

• Funded by AHRC - Digital Transformations in Community Research Co-Production programme

• Builds on previous work– Arts & Cultures: Northumbrian Exchanges

– Education

– LTSU: dynamic learning maps & OER projects

RIDLR & SupOERGlue (2 x JISC funded OER Rapid Innovation projects)

Return Paradata

LR Node

DLM

Harvest OERs /Paradata

PublishOER (HEA/JISC UKOER Phase 3 project)

Technologies - backgroundDynamic Learning Mapshttps://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk/

Resources in Co-Curate at 24/03/15

Harvesting of Selected Resources

Automated / regularly refreshed

Demonstration

https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/

Killingworth Flats Park 1970's Kenton Comprehensive School

George StephensonThe Hoppings

Wallsend Four!

Roy's Bakery, Tynemouth Friends with NUFC football player

Top 10 most frequently viewed media (Jan to March 13th, 2015)

George Stephenson

Settlingstones Mine

Pathé Video: Miners Dancing

756 media resource views (10.4% of all media views*)*excludes viewing slideshows and thumbnails

Uploaded by community (4)- Students at George Stephenson HS

From Regional Museum/Library Flickr Collections (5)

YouTube video – hand addedby project team (1)

Key:

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Usage Stats - first 11 weeks of 2015

92% of users are from the UK

~85% from the North East region

Period of analysis includeslarge-scale pilot with GSHS starting in January 2015

~40% of comments related to a specific School assignment:

145 comments were made over a 6 month period

Some peer /social conversation

32 new pages

331 tags to topics in Co-Curate

270 new resources added

150 images uploaded137 Creative Commons licensed

13 All Rights Reserved

Community added content and resources

Discussion

• Openly licensed photographs and videos – are these OERs?

– Many do have annotations explaining context and history

– lack of intrinsic paedagogy

– independent learning activities and even unstructured ‘self-organised learning’ (SOLE).

– independent discovery and ‘serendipitous learning’

• Adding value – comments / tags etc.

• Co-Curate raised awareness and understanding of copyright and Open Licenses– Huge issue/interest to community groups– Keen to use Open but cautious to contribute (at first)– Large collections of physical photographs many ‘orphaned’ in

terms of copyright owner being unknown.– Layers of copyright in ‘mashups’

• Risk management – takedown policy• Ethical/legal issues working with children

• Selectivity• Sustainability

Discussion #2

Summary

• The Co-Curate North East project aims to support co-production and co-curation, including use of materials from museum and archive collections mixed with informal community input.

• The process can added value to OA collections; for example the addition of personal narratives to historical photographs adds rich contextual information.

• The tagging and linking between related topics and resources also adds value. The creation of ‘mashups’ can mix content from different collections and can include community added content.

Further information: https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/

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