Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting Higher and Further Education DNER Collections Group Update on new developments Catherine Grout Collections.

Joint Information Systems Committee

Supporting Higher and Further Education

DNER Collections Group

Update on new developments

Catherine GroutCollections Manager for Multimedia

Joint Information Systems Committee

Supporting Higher and Further Education

General

• New Collections Policy

• Re-vamped Collections Pages

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections

• DNER Collections Subject Mapping Exercise

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Consultation Processes...

• We are trying to improve these;

– Notion of Subject groups

– Combined FE/HE membership

– Vital to ensure linkages with existing groups, e.g. JIBS

– “Real end users” or information mediators

• Exploring other methods of getting feedback; user needs surveys

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Supporting provision of diverse content

virtual realityvirtual reality

statistical datastatistical data

moving imagesmoving images

E-journalsE-journals

bibliographiesbibliographies

soundsound

still imagesstill images

websiteswebsites

Geospatial dataGeospatial data

abstractsabstracts

citationscitations

metadatametadata

cataloguescatalogues

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Strategies for different media types

• Making rapid progress in cementing and improving provision in some areas

– Getting a critical mass of suitable resources

– Improving the service environment

• E-books Working Group

• Geospatial Working Group

• Moving Picture and Sound Working Group

• Images Working Group; JISC Distributed Image Service

• Others may follow, e.g. Learning Materials

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Content Updates; open to subscribe

• Images and Multimedia (highly subsidised and preferential rate)

• The AMICO Image Library

– 65,000 works, text and image, from American Art Museums

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/amico.html

• SCRAN Resource Base

– 510,000 records, 100,000 with multimedia from the museums, galleries and archives of Scotland

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/scran.html

• Both can be used for the full range of “educational”, learning, teaching and research purposes