The growth of digital content and use of content on the Web has been rapidly changing over the past decade. The digital deluge provides opportunities but how can these best be exploited? Are you making the most of your content? What are the technical and strategic approaches required to thrive in today’s environment?

Questions this conference will start to address:

  • How do we exploit the value of distributed resources? – Linked Data, geospatial tagging and metadata etc?
  • In terms of scale what are the issues and barriers? What does working at web scale mean and offer? How can the crowd be exploited?
  • What are the issues and opportunities for opening up content?
  • How do we effectively and efficiently meet the needs of users and taking the best advantage of the available technologies? For example personalisation?
  • How do sectors work together? Education, the cultural heritage sector, engaging business and community and the public and private sectors? What role should strategic agencies play?

Aims

The aim of the conference is to bring together cross domain community of experts to provide a focus on the above questions and to identify the key approaches that universities, colleges, the cultural heritage and public sectors can pursue to support education, research and the wider knowledge economy.

Specifically:

  • offering an opportunity for experts to exchange experience and knowledge
  • to achieve a shared understanding of the issues, barriers and opportunities and to equip policy makers and content providers with a clear view of future technology directions and priorities to support the exploitation of content
  • to inform a Position Paper on “Trends and technology in use – potential for libraries, learning and research: how to make the most of your content”

Outcome

Outcomes of the workshop will help to inform JISC programmes and service approaches, in particular the resource discovery and access strategies that JISC pursues; for example the JISC and Research Libraries UK, Resource Discovery Task Force vision http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/ and the JISC’s Strategic Content Alliance http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/ as appropriate.

It will provide a paper, based on the workshop discussion that gives direction to content providers in the networked environment.

Audience

This event is aimed at people who have a stake in providing content for learning teaching and research.  This includes policy makers, senior managers, information specialists and technical managers/developers, from the public and commercial sectors.