Evaluation, Evaluation, Evaluation
Evaluation is often a neglected area within a digitisation project’s life cycle, as most of a team’s energies and resources get absorbed by the complex task of setting up the right infrastructure to carry out the actual digitisation of material. At times subsumed within the more technical Quality Assurance process, at best it’s the kind of activity that comes as an after-thought towards the end of a project.
Within the current JISC digitisation programme, and at the request of many of the 16 projects taking part, we’ve tackled the issue of evaluation from very early on.
Last September JISC ran an evaluation workshop for all projects which provided guidance on a methodological framework for evaluation based on the booklet Six Steps to Effective Evaluation: A Handbook for Programme and Project Managers, developed for JISC by Glenaffric Ltd, who also led the workshop.
