Alastair Dunning's Presentation from the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28 October 2010), looking at Strand A of Grant call 11/10 on Enriching via Collaboration, and grant call 16/10 on Rapid Digitisation

1. Details of JISC eContent Funding Calls
Enriching via Collaboration (11/10 Strand A)
Rapid Digitisation (16/10)
Alastair Dunning
JISC Programme Manager
0203 006 6065
a.dunning@jisc.ac.uk
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/
October 2010
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2. Enriching via Collaboration (11/10 Strand A)
“This strand wishes to explore clustering digital
resources around themes relevant to research
and teaching, or enhancing digital content by
improving functionality and interfaces. It is
also concerned with how existing audiences
can be expanded and new ones discovered.
The outputs should have a clear purpose
within HE or FE teaching and research, but can
also be of interest to a broader community.”
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3. Enriching via Collaboration (11/10 Strand A)
• Funding
– £400k, 4-5 projects, £50k-£100k per project
• Timescales
– Submitting Bids – 12 noon, 10 December 2010
– 10 sheets of A4 to digitisation-bids@jisc.ac.uk
– Projects Start by : 1 March 2011
– Projects End by : 30 September 2011
– Therefore, 7 months maximum
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4. Enriching: Partnerships
• Single university in UK, and some FE institutions
• Must have partner either from HE or outside
• Partner(s) cannot have more funds than lead
institutions
• Eligible - University of X receives £60k, Partner 1
receives £30k
• Ineligible – University of Y receives £40k, Partner
1 receives £30k, Partner 2 receives £20k
• JISC sets no fEC levels; institutional contributions
show value for money
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5. Enriching: Why Partnerships?
• Increased importance in economic climate
• Stressed by meeting of Digital Content
Taskforce, July 2010
• Possibilities for new content, new audiences,
new methodologies, new platforms
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6. Enriching: Examples
• The partner organisations working together to repackage or cluster
existing digital content for both current and new audiences.
– For example, taking multiple existing resources and creating one single
product with a more marketable theme
• Exposing digitised content currently utilised by a limited HE or FE
audience to an expanded number of users and audiences
– For example, exposing content via new web platforms and devices, or
improving the quality and relevance of an existing resource
• Exposing the content from the partner organisation to an HE and FE
audience
– For example, exposing the content from a museum, society or
business to HE audiences
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7. Enriching: Examples
• The partner organisations working together to repackage or cluster
existing digital content for both current and new audiences.
– King’s College’s Anglo-Saxon Cluster, http://www.ascluster.org/,
brought together three separate resources on Anglo Saxon history
• Exposing digitised content currently utilised by a limited HE or FE
audience to an expanded number of users and audiences
– Victoria Climbié Inquiry Data Corpus Online, http://www.jisc-
content.ac.uk/collections/victoria-climbie-inquiry-data-corpus-online
• Exposing the content from the partner organisation to an HE and FE
audience
– National Archives Cabinet Papers - http://www.jisc-
content.ac.uk/collections/cabinet-papers-1915-1978
• Other existing examples – see http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/
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8. Rapid Digitisation (16/10)
• Funding
– £400k, 5-7 projects, £50k-£100k per project
• Timescales
– Submitting Bids – 12 noon, 10 December 2010
– 10 sheets of A4 to digitisation-bids@jisc.ac.uk
– Projects Start by : 1 March 2011
– Projects End by : 31 July 2011
– Therefore, 5 months maximum
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9. Rapid Digi: Partnerships
• Single university in England, and some FE institutions
• Can have partner either from HE, FE or outside
• Partner(s) cannot have more funds than lead
institutions
• Eligible - Uni of X receives £60k, Partner 1 receives
£30k
• Ineligible – Uni of Y receives £40k, Partner 1 receives
£30k, Partner 2 receives £20k
• JISC sets no fEC levels; institutional contributions show
value for money
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10. Rapid Digi: Scope
• Addition of new digitised content to existing
digital resources; the value and potential impact
of adding any new content should be
demonstrated.
• Digitisation of small collections; as with above,
the value, and the relationship to existing digital
collections, should be articulated.
• Pilot digitisation work to test the viability and
value of digitising a larger collection.
• Undertaking digitisation with new technologies
(e.g. 3D scanning).
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11. Rapid Digi: Examples
• Addition of new digitised content to existing digital
resources;
– Historical Hansards adding to existing Stormont Papers
• Digitisation of small collections;
– Serving Solider – First World War archive
• Pilot digitisation work to test the viability and value of
digitising a larger collection
– 19th Century Pamphlets Scoping Study
• Undertaking digitisation with new technologies (e.g.
3D scanning).
– University of Birmingham Eton Myers Collection of
Egyptian Artefacts
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12. Both Calls: IPR and Licensing
• Projects with complex IPR clearance unlikely
to get funding
• Outputs must be freely available for use and
re-use for 5 years within HE and FE
• Desirable to have open access
– Advertise terms and conditions! Use suitable
licence!
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13. Both Calls: Priorities
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Medicine)
• Special Collections / Primary sources
• It is likely that some, *but not all*, projects
will be funded from either both or either of
these categories
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14. Both Calls: Define Users
• End point of digital content should be in teaching and
research
• Show who your users will be. Get evidence that there is
demand
• Build in capability for assessing value and impact
• What will the value and impact of digital content be?
• Existing programme on Impact and Embedding of Digitised
Resources
• Oxford University Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised
Scholarly Resources
• Expose your content - advice via Strategic Content Alliance
• Findings from Log Analysis in Arts and Humanities, UCL
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15. Both Calls: Reducing Costs
• JISC recognise sums do not allow for advanced
projects
• Usage of existing infrastructures whether
institutional or third-party are welcome
• Lightweight solutions for both creating and
processing digital content and related
metadata favoured.
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16. Final points on both calls
• Project Management
• Communications and
Dissemination
• Risk Analysis
• IPR and licensing
position
• Users and evaluation
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• Digital Lifecycle
• Selection – capture –
description –
delivery-
sustainability and
preservation
• Innovation
Within ten pages ?!! Tackle key points, skim over easier ones

17. Further assistance
• JISC staff are not in a position to
read individual draft proposals
• JISC staff can speak about
individual projects at the
meeting today.
• For further advice on individual
applications email
a.dunning@jisc.ac.uk (Slots
available on 29 Oct and 8 Nov)
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18. Images
• At the Front, Designed by Earnest Ibbotson
http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=26879&sos=1
• Stained Glass from Merton College,
Cambridge
http://www.cvma.ac.uk/jsp/record.do?photodataKey=6058&mode=CVMA
_INV_NO&recordView=DETAIL
• Women of Britain say “Go”, Kealey, E V
http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=26186&sos=5
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