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Visit from JISC October 6, 2009

Posted by AngelaTrikic in : Comms , trackback

We were very pleased to welcome Andy McGregor the Programme Manager for the Enhancement projects to join us for an afternoon last week, which included a scheduled project meeting.

Our aim was to discuss our progress and hopefully receive some assurance that we are heading in a positive direction as well as discussing issues. We also picked Andy’s brain for similar or related work being conducted in other JISC projects. The Edshare project in Southampton and the Worcester Learning Box project are ones on our list to follow up with enquiries and possibly a visit.

We enjoyed the opportunity of an informal catch up over lunch with Andy who was able to meet the workpackage leads and gain a better idea of the detailed work going on behind the scenes.

As our NTU project is being conducted with our partner Desire2Learn, JISC requires that we have a Consortium Agreement to formalise the arrangement. We had agreed all but one point, which was ironed out with a conference call facilitated by NTU in the previous week. The conference call enabled discussion around intentions and meaning between JISC and D2L. A solution was found in principal so it was excellent to have a face to face meeting with Andy where the wording proposed could be agreed, which it was. So I think we’re all relieved that that one is ticked off the To Do list!

Our project meeting included Ian and Yvonne from D2L and used the opportunity to consider a couple of questions from the JISC six- monthly report. We discussed what meetings or events would benefit our project and what areas we would like to explore with other projects. The following suggestions were discussed

  1. exposing an institutional repository in the public domain, issues and processes associated with this;
  2. approaches to metadata management.
  3. Encouraging a culture of sharing
  4. Copyright and repositories using  creative commons licenses
  5. Harvesting content from repositories

We also considered any policy, technical or IPR issues that have arisen through your work that we felt JISC needs to explore further. The following ideas were put forward:

  1. In scope for the project is a review of University Copyright policy and investigation of the use of Creative Commons licenses informed by the Rights and Rewards Report and other studies and experiences within the sector.
  2. Policy/guideline and process development that will assist the University embrace a culture of sharing are an important dimension to the project. Exemplars and people that JISC can highlight will be gratefully received.
  3. We have developed a metadata schema adopting a minimalist approach. It would be helpful to check the feasibility of this approach with JISC.

A productive afternoon. Thank you Andy and all involved!

Angela Trikic

JISC SHARE Project Lead

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1. vickimcgarvey - October 7, 2009

I would like add to Angela’s comments and to thank Andy for a productive afternoon and for giving us some ideas on where we can find further information that will help us with our project. Our next job will be to make connections with some of the other projects within the programme.