1. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 1 LIBER-EBLIDA Digitisation Workshop Copenhagen 24-26 October 2007 www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisationFive centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research

2. Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 2 The JISC Digitisation Programme: strategy and collections Paola Marchionni Digitisation Programme Manager p.marchionni@jisc.ac.uk

3. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 3 Outline About JISC Digitisation strategy and programme Digitisation projects Programme management Current initiatives and programme outcomes

4. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 4 About JISC Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC): – “JISC's mission is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of Information and Communications Technology to support education and research.” JISC receives funding mainly from UK’s funding councils Funds ICT infrastructure (JANET), services (e.g. TASI, JISCLegal, TechDis), programmes and projects (e.g. digitisation programme, preservation and repositories, users and innovation) c.80 staff, at Bristol and London. Wider committee and working group structure drawn from relevant communities Orientated to Higher and Further Education, then broader public

5. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 5 Context of the Digitisation Programme E-Content team, within Development Group: – Digitisation programme: www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation – Strategic Content Alliance: www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/eresources/contentalliance.aspx www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/eresources/contentalliance.aspx – Links with other JISC programmes and services, such as Repositories, JISC Collections… External context, national and international: – Digitisation in the UK: the case for a UK framework www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/reports.aspx www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/reports.aspx – Rapid growth in digitisation of material in last 10 years – Fragmentation in standards used, formats, and accessibility and sustainability approaches – Google and Microsoft – Commercial publishers

6. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 6 Digitisation Strategy: priorities Vision: To build sustainable and coherent e- resources that meet the needs of and are of benefit to learning, teaching and research in the United Kingdom. Priorities: – Make the hidden visible: enable access to and use of difficult or impossible to access collections – Address a recognised need or gap within learning, teaching or research provision – Map to a particular area of the curriculum or research interest – Inspire new avenues of research, or new approaches within learning and teaching – Contribute to creating critical mass within a given area or help to create a theme across previously unassociated materials – Would not otherwise be funded, or be able to attract significant funding from other sources – Are at risk from being lost to our community through sale, deterioration or disaggregation

7. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 7 Digitisation Strategy: collections Standards based: employ and develop standards for digital capture and description, and digital preservation Interoperable: deploy the standards specified within the JISC Information Environment for interoperability and offer excellence in resource discovery User Focussed: have been created with a high level of user engagement, offer a high quality user experience Innovative: explore new approaches and embrace current developments in technology Contextualised: are accompanied by contextual examples to help take up for learning and research Sustainable: where suitable service provision and business models can be put in place to ensure future sustainability and preservation Legal: where all third party rights including copyright have been cleared for a minimum ten year term educational use and re-use

8. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 8 Digitisation Programme Digitisation Phase 1 – 2004-2007 – 6 projects, c. £10m Digitisation Phase 2 – 6 projects, c. £12m – 2007-2009 – Different sources of funding within JISC (HEFCE, HEFCW, International partnerships, Learning and Teaching, IT Infrastructure) Wide range in skills and experience and size of projects

9. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 9 Collections Collections spanning five centuries of social, political, economic and cultural history in the UK Variety of formats – Newspapers and journals, audio-visual material, prints, paintings, stained glass, glass plates, election data, maps, cartoons, ephemera, PhD theses Variety of institutions and partnerships – Educational institutions, libraries, archives, museums, community organisations, commercial sector Materials difficult to access, fragile and of educational value Relevant to curricula and research interests

10. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 10 Phase 1 projects Newsfilm Online British Parliamentary Papers British Library Archival Sound Recordings British Library Newspapers Medical Journals Backfiles Historical Population Data

11. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 11 Phase 2 projects User engagement First World War Poetry Digital Archive – 2000 images of manuscripts and primary sources from 5 Great War poets and contextual material – Path Creation Scheme, Community section and online educational tutorials Pre-Raphaelite resource – Images of paintings, drawings and related material by Pre-Raphaelite painters – Facility for users to add material and self-tag images British Cartoon Archive – 15,000 images from the Carl Giles Collection, a key resource for British political and social history – Moderated wiki-style contributions to add to current catalogue records and group cartoon images

12. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 12 Phase 2 projects Protection from deterioration Freeze frame; historic polar images – 20,000 images relating to study of polar environments, and the history of exploration and science in the Arctic and Antarctic – Glass plates, photographic negatives, deterioration of cellulose stock Archival Sound Recordings – 4,200 further hours of audio material – Betamax, audiocassette, reel to reel tapes and CD-R, 78rpm records

13. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 13 Phase 2 projects Contextualised resources British Governance: Cabinet papers 1914-1975 – Half million images of cabinet minutes and memoranda – Different approaches to resources for HE (broad and thin) and schools (narrow and deep) InView: moving images in the public sphere – 600 hours of moving image material on key social, political and economic issues – Online journal featuring articles relating to the digitised films and hyperlinked to film segments Historic Boundaries of Britain – Digitisation of historical maps – Printed and downloadable teachers packs and on-line tutorials based on different themes and associated sources, eg electoral history

14. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 14 Phase 2 projects Delivery, access and sustainability Free to all – Modern Welsh Journal Online and others – 600,000 pages from 90 in-copyright journals in Welsh and English - institutional strategy Use of existing infrastructures – Nineteenth-century Pamphlets /JSTOR – 23,000 pamphlets drawn from seven UK research libraries and delivered via JSTOR – UK Theses/EThOS – Over 5000 ‘popular’ UK theses from 1730 onwards. Open access to content through EThOS, fees for added value services Commercial partnerships – Electronic Ephemera/ProQuest – 150,000 images of ephemera delivered through ProQuest free to HE/FE and public libraries. By subscription outside the UK

15. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 15 Phase 2 projects Building a national critical mass E-resources on Ireland – 100 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections – Drawn from various libraries in Ireland British Newspapers 1620-1900 – 1.1m drawn from BL Collections – 75% regional newspapers (e.g. Inverness Courier, Dundee Courier, Hawick Express) East London Theatre Archive – 15,000 playbills, programmes to press cuttings and photographs relating – Ephemeral material held in several distinct archives Independent Radio News – 4,000 hours of radio news, current affairs and programmes from 70s to 90s from throughout the UK

16. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 16 Programme Management Programme Managers closely involved with projects to offer guidance and support Opportunities for knowledge sharing, training and networking at programme level through programme mtgs; workshops; ad hoc consultancy (eg IPR and metadata) Cardiff international digitisation conference, July 2007 Emphasis on “lessons learnt” as evaluation Digitisation Advisory Group for strategic input in programme (representatives from HE and FE institutions, heritage sector and other relevant public institutions) Partnerships: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH, US) on Transatlantic digitisation and Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) for creating learning resources for the FE sector based on digitised collections

17. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 17 Programme Outcomes Sophisticated rights framework Enhanced digitisation infrastructure Enhanced digitisation knowledge, both broad and detailed Variety of sustainability and business models Enhanced technical standards and technical metadata knowledge Greater awareness of digitisation needs, both from users and from collection curators – gap analysis

18. JISC Digitisation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 | 20 July 2007 | Slide 18 Thank you For more information and to keep in touch see: Web: www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisationwww.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation Blog: http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/ Thank you