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Digipedia briefing 08 11-10
1. DIGIPEDIA: The Story So Far
AGENDA
1. Strategic Content Alliance
2. Digipedia Prototype
3. Digipedia Pilot Service
2. Common Information Environment
2003-07 Bonding and ground breaking
Small-scale demonstrators
Considerable debate about possibilities
Moving towards a more mature approach to co-operation
BBC
Becta
British Library
JISC
MLA
NHS – National e-Library for Health
3. Strategic Content Alliance
2007 Full-time team at JISC
The MISSION:
“…the full range of online content needs to be made
available to all, quickly, easily and in a form appropriate to
individuals' needs.”
“…without much greater common working our
respective contributions in providing access to new
digital resources will be limited to individual branded
networks.”
4. 2007-2009 Deliverables
Orphan works
Audience research
Intellectual property rights
Sustainability and business models
Synthesis to create a UK e-content
framework for knowledge, learning and
research
5. The Digital Content Framework
To achieve the best possible return on investment,
avoidance of duplication of effort, and to empower the
e-citizen, key stakeholders need to be brought together
to work towards a common set of principles and
guidelines for best practice that will provide a common
policy framework for online content activities across the
domains of lifelong learning and teaching, research, and
cultural heritage.
7. 2009: Digipedia Prototype
Main purposes
Link authoritative
information
Focus for expert advice and
guidance
Plain English narrative
Text mining
Innovative browsing
Access for a broad
audience
Audience
Policy makers
Public sector content
creators
Non-for-profit content
creators
8. Digital Lifecycle highway code
Common standards
Authoritative guidance, from basic to advanced
Resource sharing, partnerships
9. Route planner to convergence
Who is doing what?
Policy conversations
Partnership and sustainability
Relevance to widest possible
audience
10. Advocacy resource
Compendium of achievements
Exemplars of public value
Digital content and strategic policy priorities
Practical tools and methods
11. Knowledge exchange
Managed two-way engagement
Linking people together
Conversations, new ideas
Communities of interest
12. Simple, but authoritative
Provides practical answers
Trusted, quality advice
One-stop shop
Easy to use
Digital Content Lifecycle
13. Why MediaWiki?
World’s leading open source wiki software
Robust platform
Simple, low maintenance
Wide range of tested extensions
Ingestion, export, semantic tools, user interfaces
Constant innovation/development (chance to
contribute)
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19. Digipedia: Pilot Service
12 month project (five months in)
Easy to use, authoritative, up-to-date, insightful view on
the management of the digital content lifecycle
Build community of those working towards ‘good
practice’ in digital content provision
Communications and dissemination plan
Developing a business plan for sustainability with JISC
and other Alliance partners
20. Additional Functionality
User ranking of content
Embedding content in other services
Important tagged content from other services
FAQs and discussion fora
Multimedia resources
Step-by-step how to guides
(MediaWiki, but not Wikipedia)
21. Where are we up to?
v1.6 demonstration of functionality and federated
content search
Partnership with Collections Trust to test semantic links
How to build a cost-effective business model
Development profile that will mould a comprehensive
knowledge based across a range of agencies –
convergence?
Testing the embedding of service into other websites
(widget transplant)
The purpose of Digipedia is to build and present to policy makers and professionals a trusted and comprehensive guide to the digital content lifecycle so that public investment in digital content can converge around the UK Digital Content Framework
An early schematic of the value components and value flows around the Digital Content Framework
There is a role to aggregate guidance, standards, policies and case studies from a range of institutions and translate that into resources relevant to a range of sectors and levels of knowledge and experience
The diagram does not show the growing feedback loops that are developing across the demand and supply sides. These will be part of the development of the next stage of Digipedia
Scope of the deliverables and targets for the initial prototype
An important element of the project will be to provide coherent, authoritative guidance on the standards for digital content and approaches to content aggregation and presentation that is at once efficient and focused on the needs of user groups, whether great national institutions or small volunteer groups in the third sector.
It will also present options to convergence and sustainability so that maximum value is delivered to the end user. This element will be important to the policy planner working at strategic level
It will provide guidance on approaches to advocacy – case studies, impact analysis and tools that will ne necessary for those developing programmes of advocacy
A further critical element will be to provide a forum for discussion and the development of communities of interest. Digipedia will be an open system within this context allowing the sharing of information and experience and methods to enable user comment to be added
It will present the information in forms that work for the end user, which means simple and straightforward
The first version of Digipedia used MediaWiki (as used by Wikipedia)
One of the great strengths of MediaWiki is the large user base and the consequential shared programme of development of functionality.
The platform is very robust and maintenance is limited
Already there are a wide range of extensions and new approaches to data ingestion, interfaces and the semantic web are now being widely tested.
Not only does this mean there is opportunity to sustain the development of the open source platform, but there the chance of JISC and SCA to contribute new ideas to the global community of users
We plan to exploit the ability of MediaWIki to export data and also to act as a signpost to external data sources
We expect that there will be a central repository of resources (for example the SCA oeuvre) but linking to other services will be just as important, something that the semantic approach makes possible
Our intention is that the architecture will make it possible to embed Digipedia as a service dashboard within remote services, thus allowing the remote service to customise the interface for their user base while accessing all the resources of DIgipedia
The wonderful front page of the first version that will be familiar to some of the audience
Quick example of how the wiki approach can adopt and exploit high quality resources
The SCA IPR toolkit provides a comprehensive guide and resources for all aspects of IPR, mainly available in traditional printed form
This is a schematic of the relationships between components, but with the printed form the relationships are not readily presented to the user. They must plot through the flowchart to find the relevant bits
This is an example from the initial prototype
It shows on the left hand side that an wider introduction designed for those who come to the digital content lifecycle for the first time. This introduction provides a description of all aspects of the law in relation to digital content.
The right hand page shows links to all of the components of the original IPR guide – these links are also embedded throughout the various pages related to digital content and the law so that different paths can be plotted through the various elements, depending on the needs of the user.
This is a simple to show how MediaWiki enables semantic connectivity