how jisc projects are funded and sustained (2010 version)
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An introduction to how JISC projects are funded and sustained, with particular emphasis on concentration of projects funded under its Digitisation ProgrammeTRANSCRIPT
Joint Information Systems Committee 12 April 2023 | Slide 1
How JISC projects are funded and sustained – 2010 version
Alastair DunningDigitisation Programme Manager JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) [email protected], 0203 006 6065, @alastairdunninghttp://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
UCL Presentation, 19th November 2010
the jisc network (janet) gives all higher education internet access
jisc also supports sevices for the
educational community such
as JISCmail, MIMAS and
JISC Digital Media
jisc also funds innovative projects to create new ideas for the use of technology in
education
JISC Digitisation Programme
Oversight of c.70 projects, c.£25m from 2004 - 2010
– ITN’s NewsFilm Online - http://www.nfo.ac.uk/
– Political Cartoon Archive – http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
– British Film Institute InView http://www.bfi.org.uk/inview/
– 20th-century Government Cabinet Papers -http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/
– Gateway of content - http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk
– Digitisation in UK - http://web.me.com/xcia0069/uk-digitisation.html
How does funding happen? Not just universities and libraries working by themselves – universities
partly funded by taxes; although this is changing quickly (ie student fees)
Complex set of politics, government, strategy and institutions
http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
Each step on the chain has strategic guidance about how that money can be spent
Prime Minister > Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills > Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) > JISC
– Also via Research Councils or direct to universities
How are the digitisation / digital humanities projects funded?
PS – This is subject to significant change as effect of government policies are felt!
jisc will issue calls to the educational community, asking for proposals
universities and maybe otherinterested bodies willsubmit applications
JISC then uses a peer-reviewprocess to select the bestprojects, using expertise from the universities and also withinJISC itself
Call > Bids > Review > Projects
What are JISC’s ‘strategic imperatives’, i.e. what do tell our projects that have to do
Bear in mind the issues from the prologue
JISC wants successful projects, of high quality and of use for researchers, lecturers
and students
digital resources are not free to run – they need to be sustained in the long term, both technically and intellectually
the Electronic Ephemera collection has images from
18th-20th century. It was digitised at Oxford but is published by ProQuest, a
commercial company
http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/
build it and they will come? – Nope, users need to be actively engaged if they are to use a resource
the Freeze Frame project went through every UK
undergraduate course, identifying which would be
interested in their collection of polar images – geology,
geography, fashion, health and nutrition, history …
http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/
without good metadata a resource will not be found nor trusted
the Archival Sound Recordings has over 44,000
audio files on wildlife, oral history, the Holocaust, artist’s
testimonies, lectures. Each recording is scrupulously
catalogued, so the rights are clearly labelled, and the recordings findable via
http://sounds.bl.uk
innovation means that you can have exciting projects that do new things
the First World War Poetry Archive asked members of the
public to digitise and comment on their own collections – the pool of content and expertise was hugely
increased. Plus a whole trench recreated in Second Life
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
the PreRaphaelite resource is beautifully designed and the photographs are of a quality
unsurpassed http://www.preraphaelites.org/
innovation means that you can have exciting projects that do new things
Old Weather encourages the public to transcribe naval logs
with weather reports thus providing important data for
climate scientists
http://www.oldweather.org/
Visualising China will offer researchers the opportunity build a directory of
historic photos of China http://www.visualisingchina.org/
What does this mean for you
A lot goes on of which end users at universities don’t know about
But is vital in creating sustainable, high-quality resources
At the end you have free access to high quality resources to use in classwork and research (at least most of the time)
Credits
Network - http://www.flickr.com/photos/funksoup/403990660/
Federer – http://www.flickr.com/photos/franz88/1092672031/
Lightbulb - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermininc/2777441779/
Committee Men 1 - (Human Space Flight Plans Committee Report (200910220001HQ), http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/4035625512/
Committee Room (Committee Room, Lloyd's), http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamulley/3941173374/
Application (My Application at Scanline) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/strahl/2392228947/
Call Me - http://www.flickr.com/photos/trashit_t-shirt/2171336265/
Other images taken direct from relevant JISC-funded projects
If you think of questions later, tweet me @alastairdunning or email me a.dunning at // jisc.ac.uk
More content at http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/