Sustainability at JISCSustainability at JISC

Funders’ Forum, Wellcome Trust7th May 2010

Alastair Dunning, JISC Digitisation Programme Managera.dunning@jisc.ac.uk, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation

Funders’ Forum, Wellcome Trust7th May 2010

Alastair Dunning, JISC Digitisation Programme Managera.dunning@jisc.ac.uk, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation

Focus on Digitised Content

Focus on Digitised Content

•JISC funding delivers numerous outputs - digitised content, open educational resources, software, textbooks, tools and middleware

•Different approaches for sustaining each type

•Focus here on outputs from JISC Digitisation Programme

• And in particular Phase 2 from 2006 to 2009

•Some convergence between types but more to be done

•JISC funding delivers numerous outputs - digitised content, open educational resources, software, textbooks, tools and middleware

•Different approaches for sustaining each type

•Focus here on outputs from JISC Digitisation Programme

• And in particular Phase 2 from 2006 to 2009

•Some convergence between types but more to be done

Call for applicationsCall for applications

•Call for applications will involve various strict stipulations and also helpful pointers

•Some stipulations directly related to sustainibility

• Re-use: Content must be freely available to FE and HE for 5 years after launch (i.e not Open Access)

•Other stipulations will indirectly help

• Standards: Preference for open standards where feasible

• Licence: Based on a JISC model for educational usage

•Call for applications will involve various strict stipulations and also helpful pointers

•Some stipulations directly related to sustainibility

• Re-use: Content must be freely available to FE and HE for 5 years after launch (i.e not Open Access)

•Other stipulations will indirectly help

• Standards: Preference for open standards where feasible

• Licence: Based on a JISC model for educational usage

Call for applicationsCall for applications•Call for applications also encouraged a

culture of sustainability

• Invited new business models, international partnerships, private / public collaboration

•Other related innovations encouraged - sustained user engagement, development of critical mass, value for learning and teaching, open metadata, contextualised for teaching and research.

•Followed by peer review process, combining subject and technical expertise with knowledge of sustainability

•Call for applications also encouraged a culture of sustainability

• Invited new business models, international partnerships, private / public collaboration

•Other related innovations encouraged - sustained user engagement, development of critical mass, value for learning and teaching, open metadata, contextualised for teaching and research.

•Followed by peer review process, combining subject and technical expertise with knowledge of sustainability

Programme ManagementProgramme Management

•JISC provide project management templates to help projects

•JISC staff play an active role in projects to ensure delivery - this includes sustainability

•Initial project plan includes section on exit and sustainability plans

•JISC provide project management templates to help projects

•JISC staff play an active role in projects to ensure delivery - this includes sustainability

•Initial project plan includes section on exit and sustainability plans

Examples - Nineteenth-century Pamphlets

Examples - Nineteenth-century Pamphlets

• c.26,000 pamphlets from UK library collections, e.g. Bristol, Liverpool, London School of Economics

• Digitised by University of Southampton on behalf of Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

• Hosted by JSTOR; free to UK HE and FE; subscription charges for other

• http://www.jstor.org/page/info/participate/other/britishPamphlets.jsp

• http://www.britishpamphlets.org.uk/

• c.26,000 pamphlets from UK library collections, e.g. Bristol, Liverpool, London School of Economics

• Digitised by University of Southampton on behalf of Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

• Hosted by JSTOR; free to UK HE and FE; subscription charges for other

• http://www.jstor.org/page/info/participate/other/britishPamphlets.jsp

• http://www.britishpamphlets.org.uk/

Examples - British Library Historic

Newspapers

Examples - British Library Historic

Newspapers•c.3m pages from BL’s newspaper collection

•Digitisation out-sourced to commercial company

•Hosted by Gale Cengage; free to UK HE and FE; subscription charges for other institutions; pay-per-view for general public

•http://newspapers.bl.uk (public site - HE and FE access via institutional gateway)

•c.3m pages from BL’s newspaper collection

•Digitisation out-sourced to commercial company

•Hosted by Gale Cengage; free to UK HE and FE; subscription charges for other institutions; pay-per-view for general public

•http://newspapers.bl.uk (public site - HE and FE access via institutional gateway)

Examples - First World War Poetry Archive

Examples - First World War Poetry Archive

•Manuscripts from First World War poets

•Subsidiary project collected digitised memorabilia from general public

• Letters, diaries, objects, documents

•Hosted by University of Oxford; free access; extra material hosted on Flickr

•http://oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

•http://www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive/

•Manuscripts from First World War poets

•Subsidiary project collected digitised memorabilia from general public

• Letters, diaries, objects, documents

•Hosted by University of Oxford; free access; extra material hosted on Flickr

•http://oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

•http://www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive/

Examples - Vision of BritainExamples - Vision of Britain•Social, political and historic data

about British places linked to historic maps

•Hosted by University of Portsmouth; free access (but not open access)

•Google Ads; Link to Cassini Maps; also commercial real estate interest in historic

•http://visionofbritain.org/

•Social, political and historic data about British places linked to historic maps

•Hosted by University of Portsmouth; free access (but not open access)

•Google Ads; Link to Cassini Maps; also commercial real estate interest in historic

•http://visionofbritain.org/

How well does it work?How well does it work?

•Projects given carrots and sticks to consider sustainability

•Greater openness about the issue

•Contractual agreement between organisation and JISC

•All sites still running (although only a year since programme completion)

•Full impact yet to be determined

•Projects given carrots and sticks to consider sustainability

•Greater openness about the issue

•Contractual agreement between organisation and JISC

•All sites still running (although only a year since programme completion)

•Full impact yet to be determined

How could it work better?

How could it work better?

•Greater transparency about costs, both in terms of data creation, and ongoing curation

•Models that allow for technical *and* editorial sustainability

•Construction of more thorough business case at outset

•Encouraging centres of innovation in business modelling

•Understanding of larger eco-system of digital content

•Better strategic alignment within organisation

•Greater transparency about costs, both in terms of data creation, and ongoing curation

•Models that allow for technical *and* editorial sustainability

•Construction of more thorough business case at outset

•Encouraging centres of innovation in business modelling

•Understanding of larger eco-system of digital content

•Better strategic alignment within organisation

How is it weak?How is it weak?•Institutions see five year access conditions

as maximum rather than minimum

•Not open access

•Difficult to monitor in long term

•Earlier comment about costs and lack of business and licencing skills within institutions

•Engaging with community engagement

•Questions?

•Institutions see five year access conditions as maximum rather than minimum

•Not open access

•Difficult to monitor in long term

•Earlier comment about costs and lack of business and licencing skills within institutions

•Engaging with community engagement

•Questions?

NotesNotes

• This presentation is largely based on the sustainability issues of the JISC Digitisation Programme, Phase 2 from 2007 to 2009

• The call for proposals is avilable at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/funding/2006/05/digitisation_rfp_april_2006_final.pdf

• Over 50 applications were received. The list of projects funded under this call is available at URL

• A list of the larger public-sector digitisation projects in the UK is available at URL

• This presentation is largely based on the sustainability issues of the JISC Digitisation Programme, Phase 2 from 2007 to 2009

• The call for proposals is avilable at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/funding/2006/05/digitisation_rfp_april_2006_final.pdf

• Over 50 applications were received. The list of projects funded under this call is available at URL

• A list of the larger public-sector digitisation projects in the UK is available at URL