Digital Content Taskforce, July 2010
JISC hosted an initial meeting of its Digital Content Taskforce in London on 27th July 2010. Delegates at the meeting discussed the current issues in digitising and creating digital content for educational use.
Executive Summary
An executive summary is available as a separate blog post, or to download as a pdf file
Presentations
The presentations are available via the links to SlideShare
Catherine Grout – Introduction and Context
An introduction to the JISC Digital Content Taskforce, exploring the future position of digitisation within the UK
Simon Tanner – Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship
How the availability of digital content has provided new opportunites for research questions in higher education and beyond
Alastair Dunning – Ten Years of Triumph and Tears (link to Prezi rather than SlideShare)
Lessons learnt from ten years of digitisation
Catherine Grout – New Business Models and Sustainability
The new business models required to sustain digital content
Stuart Dempster – Collaboration in Action
Some examples of collaboration and partnership between the public sector bodies (eg. BBC, British Library) involved in the Strategic Content Alliance
