{"id":166,"date":"2008-04-15T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-04-15T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:50:46","slug":"strategic-content-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/04\/strategic-content-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Content Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a brief break, during which I got my Wi-Fi access sorted (I should have done this first thing, but got chatting to someone instead).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m attending a session on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/whatwedo\/themes\/eresources\/contentalliance.aspx\">Strategic Content Alliance<\/a> with speakers from Ithaka, the BBC and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomikorn.com\/\">Naomi Korn<\/a>, who is a IPR consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Dempster is opening the session introducing the Strategic Content Alliance, the rationale of which is &#8216;seamless access&#8217;, which they see as fundamental to lifelong learning. Reflecting on the stages of lifelong learning &#8211; pre-school, school, university, workplace, leisure etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are a wide variety of access agreements, linked to different content, different organisations and different geographical areas. The SCA is developing the &#8216;UK Content Framework&#8217; due to be delivered in spring 2009, providing a single point to find information about access to content.<\/p>\n<p>There are two tiers of membership to the SCA &#8211; the first tier requires payment, and allows you to sit on the board etc. The second tier is &#8216;aligned organisations&#8217; which requires the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding &#8211; missed what this brings as benefit though!<\/p>\n<p>Stuart has just mentioned the SCA blog, which is at <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.jiscinvolve.org\/\" title=\"http:\/\/sca.jiscinvolve.org\/\">http:\/\/sca.jiscinvolve.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SCA aims to build on a &#8216;common information environment&#8217; underpinned by a framework of principles and good practices. Empasis on real world exemplars that are economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK SCA has identified a nmber of change agents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Common licensing platforms&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Common Middleware&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Digital Repositories&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Mass Digitisation&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Devolved administrations&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Service convergence&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>UK Government policy reviews &#8211; e.g. SCA made a joint submission to the UK IPO consultation&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SCA will deliver the UK e-Content Framework comprising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E-Content Policy and Procedures&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content &#8216;Service Convergence&#8217; modelling&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content Exchange (interoperability) model development&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content Audit and Register&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content Audience analysis and modelling&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content Support and Embedding&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Business Models and sustainability strategies&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content Advocacy Dissemination and Policy Development&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>E-Content Standards and Good Practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s early days I guess for the SCA, and difficult to know how much of what comes out will be really useful. However, I think the joint submission to the Gower&#8217;s Review (<a href=\"http:\/\/sca.jiscinvolve.org\/files\/2008\/04\/sca_gowers_joint_dec.doc\" title=\"http:\/\/sca.jiscinvolve.org\/files\/2008\/04\/sca_gowers_joint_dec.doc\">http:\/\/sca.jiscinvolve.org\/files\/2008\/04\/sca_gowers_joint_dec.doc<\/a>) is a sign that this initiative will have some concrete benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:62f7a351-c458-481a-a5f1-cd3703a61dd3\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/jiscconference08\">jiscconference08<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/jisc08\">jisc08<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a brief break, during which I got my Wi-Fi access sorted (I should have done this first thing, but got chatting to someone instead). 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