1. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Creative Commons Workshop The Role Of Openness Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath Email B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/hefce-2006-11/ About This Talk Aims: To explore our understanding of openness To relate this to the higher education sector and to HEFCE To provide a context to this workshop on copyright and Creative Commons About This Talk Aims: To explore our understanding of openness To relate this to the higher education sector and to HEFCE To provide a context to this workshop on copyright and Creative Commons This work is licensed under a Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources related to this talk are bookmarked in del.icio.us using the hefce-2006-11 ' tag

2. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 2 About Openness What do you understand by the term openness? … Democracy Rights Freedom Use & reuse Openness

3. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 3 Openness and HE What do we mean by openness in higher education? … FoI Free speech Academic freedom Open standards / open source Openness & HE

4. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 4 Barriers What reasons are there for not universally adopting this not simplistic model? … Data Protection Privacy Income generation Business case / sustainability Openness

5. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 5 UKOLN Focus UKOLNs focus: Open standards to allow IT applications to interoperate and enhance use and re-use & avoid application- and platform-dependencies Open source: to both provide cost-effective solutions & the flexibility this provides (we support JISCs OSS Watch service) Open content including: Open access to peer-reviewed articles Open content to allow content to be reused; maximise impact; etc. Open data to allow content to be reused; maximise impact; etc.

6. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 6 UKOLN Perspective UKOLN takes a pragmatic approach: An advocacy role, outlining potential benefits to community A listening role, hearing about concerns, difficulties, etc. A developmental role, developing approaches and models to maximise benefits while acknowledging difficulties This work has included: Contextual model for open standards Holistic framework for Web accessibility Deployment strategies for Web 2.0 (work in progress)

7. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 7 Focus Of Today Todays workshop will: Explain Creative Commons Explore the role of Creative Commons for use by HEFCE This will be done: In the context of UKOLNs work in this & related areas Looking at pragmatic approaches

8. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 8 HE, HEFCE and Open Content Some quick responses: What are the benefits of HEIs providing open content? What are the barriers? What are the benefits of HEFCE providing open content? What are your barriers?

9. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 9 Questions? Any questions