Simon Whittemore's Presentation from the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28 October 2010), looking at Strand B of Grant call 11/10 on Developing Community Content

1. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | | Slide 1
JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10
Strand B: Developing Community Content
Simon Whittemore
Business and Community Engagement
JISC Innovation
Call meeting
28 October 2010
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx

2. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE
Developing Community Content (11/10 Strand B)
 Funding
– £440k, 5-6 projects, £50k-£100k per project
 Timescales
– Deadline for submitting Bids – 12 noon, 10 December 2010
– 10 sheets of A4 maximum to digitisation-bids@jisc.ac.uk
– Projects Start by : 1 March 2011
– Projects End by : 30 September 2011
– Therefore, 7 months maximum
2

3. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE
Developing Community Content
 Single institution or consortia
 Partnerships with external organisations welcome
(e.g. libraries, museums, galleries, publishers, other businesses)
 Partner(s) cannot have more funds than lead institutions
 Eligible – Institution X receives £60k, Partner 1 £30k
 Ineligible – Institution Y receives £40k, Partner 1 £30k, Partner 2 £20k
 Institutional contributions show value for money and institutional
commitment
 Attention to IP statements, opportunities for efficiencies, reducing costs,
cross-institutional strategic alignment
3

4. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE
Developing Community Content 11/10
‘To develop new content and communities for
educational and social purposes’
Target benefits:
 Empowering a wider range of external communities
 Raising digital literacy by engaging in community collections-building
 Cementing links and partnerships with external communities, and
integrating these into the institution’s community engagement strategy
 Framework for recognition, development and strategic contextualisation
of existing academic work engaging with external communities
4

5. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE
Developing Community Content 11/10
‘To develop new content and communities for
educational and social purposes’
Target benefits:
 Integrating strategic Business and Community Engagement (BCE) across
institutions and strategic coordination with digital collections curators
 Crowd sourcing and potential to transform & apply research, esp. in STEM &
other strategically important subjects e.g. modern languages.
 Good practices – inform JISC approach in enhancing teaching and research
process through co-creation of content.
 Exploring innovative potential and gaps in the JISC-enabled ‘digital offer’
across broad range of academic subject areas & types of collection
5

6. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 6
How does JISC support institutions in
Business and Community Engagement (BCE)?
Strategic management of relationships with external
partners/clients, and of the associated services
Knowledge Transfer/ Exchange (KE);
Employer Engagement (EE)
Public/ Community Engagement (PE);
Lifelong Learning (LL)
What is
BCE?
Institutional
Strategic
Areas (4):
Services:
e.g: CPD
consultancy
etc
......business critical in constrained economic climate.
Enhancing BCE efficiency, effectiveness + opportunities;
Improving external access to HE/FE knowledge + expertise
Not a bolt-on...
Benefits:

7. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 7
Business and Community Engagement – Enabling effective interaction
New opportunities:
online collaborative tools,
virtual research,
open innovation...
External access
to knowledge
and expertise
resources
Internal
Effective processes +
Interoperable
systems (e.g. CRM);
HE/FE
KNOWLEDGE
& EXPERTISE
Research,
Education
BUSINESS &
COMMUNITY
DEMAND
Problem/need
or opportunity
BCE PRACTITIONERS
Relationship and Service Management
Infrastructure and Skills to support
Productive knowledge and learning partnerships

8. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE
Developing Community Content:
Examples from previous Call (13/09):
Building new digital collections, or transforming existing collections
through genuine co-creation with specific external communities:
 My Leicestershire
http://myleicestershire.wordpress.com/ (Univ. Leicester)
Digital archive of historical texts, complemented by video & oral history recordings from
partners & private collections of historical photographs
 Community Cafés
http://www.llas.ac.uk/projects/6192 (Univ. Southampton)
Co-creation of a community collection of online language and cultural materials to address
the scarcity of up-to-date, online resources for community languages
 Community flood archive enhancement through storytelling (Co-FAST)
http://www2.glos.ac.uk/severnfloods/ (Univ. Glos)
Enhancing digital archive resource focused on community flood histories - engaging
Severn communities with local flood histories, flood risk and climate change
 Others - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/communitycontent.aspx
8

9. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 9
JISC Business and Community Engagement
Strategic Priorities 2010-11 to 2012-13
 Embedding BCE e.g. Embedding BCE Infokit
 Organisational Capability for BCE e.g. CPD for BCE practitioners
 Relationship Management e.g. CRM, alumni engagement
 Public value and civic engagement
e.g. Developing Community Content,
Access to Resources

10. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 10
Developing Community Content projects :
Challenges and Opportunities
 Public engagement agenda
 Enhancing public profile and reputation of the university
 Institutional efficiency and agility to survive and thrive....
 REF and Impact agenda
 Engagement skills (boundary-spanning) vital for economy
 Internal engagement with the right people is vital, e.g. :
– knowledge transfer/exchange units
– Institutional external engagement strategy: senior mgt., marketing,
– external relations, community engagement teams
– information management strategy
 Bids that cannot evidence effective internal co-ordination are
unlikely to be funded....

11. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 11
Developing Community Content:
Business and Community Engagement
Projects are strongly encouraged to consult JISC
Business and Community Engagement Resources
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx
 Embedding BCE across the institution
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/bce
 CPD for Business and Community Engagement
https://www.netskills.ac.uk/bcecpd/
 CRM Self-analysis toolkit (relationship management)
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/crm-tools/
 Access Management for BCE:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/bce/extendin
gaccessmanagementreport.pdf

12. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 12
Developing Community Content:
Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement’
Projects are strongly encouraged to consult Chris Batt’s Report:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/digicurationfinalreport.aspx
 Clarity of purpose, e.g. :
– public access to knowledge;
– engaging with the public to create new knowledge;
– creating sustained two-way engagement with specific external
partners; supporting project sustainability;
– sharing and pooling resources/skills & ideas in an open innovation
co-development project;
– building community identity and development.
 Clarity of community focus; i.e which community group and why?
– Not merely ‘the general public’ but more success likely with specific
identified community groups
 Use of social networking tools for engagement & content sharing
*

13. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | slide 13
Developing Community Content:
Public Engagement
Projects are strongly encouraged to consult with the
National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/ and/or local
Beacon for Public Engagement
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/beacons
 University strategies for public engagement across depts.
 Senior management and PE practitioner toolkits
 Ensuring co-ordination of external engagement
 Public engagement as part of wider Business and Community
Engagement or ‘third mission’ strategy

14. Joint Information Systems Committee Simon Whittemore - BCE 30/01/15 | | Slide 14
JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10
Strand B: Developing Community Content
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx
Good luck!
Thank you for listening.
Questions or comments?