digipedia briefing 08 11-10
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Briefing on v1.6 of the JISC funded Digipedia pilot projectTRANSCRIPT
DIGIPEDIA: The Story So Far
AGENDA1. Strategic Content Alliance2. Digipedia Prototype3. Digipedia Pilot Service
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
BBCBectaBritish LibraryJISCMLANHS – National e-Library for Health
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.”
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
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.
CONCEPTUAL SCOPE MODEL
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
Digital Lifecycle highway code
Common standards
Authoritative guidance, from basic to advanced
Resource sharing, partnerships
Route planner to convergence
Who is doing what?
Policy conversations
Partnership and sustainability
Relevance to widest possible audience
Advocacy resource
Compendium of achievements
Exemplars of public value
Digital content and strategic policy priorities
Practical tools and methods
Knowledge exchange
Managed two-way engagement
Linking people together
Conversations, new ideas
Communities of interest
Simple, but authoritative
Provides practical answers
Trusted, quality advice
One-stop shop
Easy to use
Digital Content Lifecycle
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)
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
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)
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)
Knowledge base
Edited contentTags in headersSelected links to build KB
Defragmention in a fragmented landscape of digital content