NOF digi: tip of the iceberg

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NOF digi tip of the iceberg

• Susi Woodhouse
• Senior Network Adviser

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Agenda

• Where we are
• Where we are going
• How we get there

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Where we are

• 50 million programme
• 151 projects (37 consortia, 37 stand alone)
• 500 organisations
• Technical standards framework
• Resource/UKOLN/AHDS support service

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SOPs
Project landscape
Music
RLS
Industrial
Biodiversity
Environment
Film
Community info
Performing Arts
Advice
Fine arts
Basic skills
GTJ
Transport
Science and invention
World Cultures
Genealogy
and MORE, much MORE ...
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BUT...

• just the tip of the iceberg

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Where we are going

• Significant body of public-domain content
• gt 1m objects images/sound clips/text pages/video
  clips
• gt 400 learning packages)
• Interoperability across all projects, and, with
  other content creation programmes
• Cross-searchable foundry of re-usable resources
  for learning

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Outward-facing outcomes

• Improved access (in all senses)
• Empowering and enabling
• better awareness of the richness and diversity of
  our cultural and community heritage
• increased economic activity
• Forging new communities
• Capacity-building

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Inward-facing outcomes

• Step-change in delivery of public-sector digital
  materials
• cohort of skilled professionals to build on the
  legacy
• New management models and delivery mechanisms for
  sustainable development

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Key building blocks

• Technical standards framework (now at V4). BECTa
  monitoring application
• An emerging programme architecture
• Use of collection level descriptions
• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for item-level
  metadata harvesting
• Continued partnership and collaboration at all
  levels
• Buy-in to the Common Information Environment

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The NOF-digi portal

• Likely functionality
• browse/search descriptions of projects
• browse/search of collections descriptions
  (RSLP-schema based)
• search of all item-level records (DC MES)
• News and highlights

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Other opportunities

• Make the most of the Sense of Place consortia
  framework
• Mine digi projects for materials on common themes
• Scale up the community information work
• Encourage user contributions

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NOF digi

• National service
• Local identity
• Global impact
• www.nof-digitise.org