Mass digitisation: best practice and lessons learnt
David Dawson (moderator)
Senior Policy Adviser (Digital Futures), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Stuart Dempster,
Director, Strategic Content Alliance, JISC
Joyce Ray
Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Washington DC
Ricky Erway
Programme Officer,
OCLC Programs and Research
The JISC Digitisation Programme: an introduction to the digitisation strategy and new collections coming on stream from 2009
Paola Marchionni, Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC
Alastair Dunning, Digitisation Programme Manager, JISC
“If Google is The Beast, then the JISC digitisation programme will be The Beauty”
Cyber-infrastructure and information policy: the changing face of US digitisation developments
Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Services
David Baker, Principal, College of St Mark and St John, with Sarah Porter and Stuart Dempster
More, live, notes from the meeting can be found on the Strategic Content Alliance Blog
Themes:
Sarah Porter (Chair)
with feedback from session moderators:
Stuart Dempster
Philip Pothen
Alastair Dunning
Paola Marchioni
Emma Beer
Business models and sustainability. How do we maintain and develop e-content?
Stuart Dempster (moderator), Director, Strategic Content Alliance, JISC
Catherine Draycott , Chair, BAPLA;
Peter Kaufman , Chief Executive Officer, Intelligent Television
Dan Burnstone, Director of Publishing, Chadwyck-Healey, ProQuest
Newsflash: shortly after speaking to us at the conference, Carwyn Jones, Minister for Education, Culture and the Welsh Language at the Welsh Assembly Government was promoted to Leader of the House. Congratulations!
David Pearson: It seems to me that Google had the big idea that the libraries failed to have about 10 years ago about the way the world was going to be in the information age. Google saw it and took it forward in ways that the publicly funded library sector are catching up with rather slowly. Should we have any concerns?
RO: to some extent Google are a bunch of pussy cats. When you go to their campus you double the average age just by being there. They are Gap-wearing skateboarders. They are very clever but not evil geniuses waiting to enslave us all. They have some big ideas and lots of money so can put some into practice. We’re worried to the extent that we will make out own arrangements for the long term preservation of the stuff we’re digitising with them. We will take care of it in perpetuity.
MR: it’s not just a question of whether they are pussycats now but what they will be like in 50 years time. We just don’t know.
What are the roles and priorities for research libraries in the UK and US in the delivery of e-content?
Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections (Associate Director), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Michael Keller, University Librarian, Stanford University
We want to talk about the elephant in the room, the love that dare not speak its name…
Unlocking e-content and enhancing education and research opportunities – an academic perspective.
Matthew Steggle, Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
Hope to bring the user perspectives from a bigger picture. Will offer five principles about what academics do and don’t like about digitisation projects. I’m primarily a teacher and researcher and only secondarily involved in digitisation.