Not robbing Peter to pay Paul...

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Not robbing Peter to pay Paul...

• Interoperability and the content funding
  landscape
• Susi Woodhouse
• Senior Network Adviser
• Resource the Council for Museums, Archives and
  Libraries

Interoperability at the coal-face, November 2000
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Agenda

• Map making
• Challenges and opportunities
• Ways forward

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Government agenda

• Re-skilling, employability
• Educational opportunities
• Learning for life
• Social inclusion
• Universal access
• Economic development (e-business)
• Knowledge economy
• e-gvt the 2005 target

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Content landscape
Peoples Network
CGfLs
UK Online
NGfL
Home Countries
Regional Broadbands
English Regions
NOF
NLN
UfI
DNER
NeLH
Commercial
Broad- casting
..and the rest
Culture Online
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Some of the funding streams.

• Capital Modernisation Fund
• Invest to Save Budget
• Lottery programmes NOF/HLF
• DfEE Standards Fund
• DCMS challenge funds
• Higher Education Funding Councils JISC/RSLP
• BL CPP
• Commercial partners
• Europe...

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• Integrate to interoperate...

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The world of Cyberspace
services
Funding streams
services
content
Funding streams
services
Funding streams
Content
Funding streams
The user community
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The world of Cyberspace
services
services
content
content
Strategic alliances
Funding streams
Content
Funding streams
Funding streams
Funding streams
Funding streams
The user community
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Strategic interoperability

• Separate silos joined-up working
• Competitive attitudes co-operative
  developments
• Single agendas shared purpose
• Duplicated effort best use of resources
• Institutional-focus user-focus
• Wasted money economies of scale
• Short-term sustainability
• .accessibility.

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Value of the managed programme

• Everyone wins
• Addresses Government agenda
• Output-focused
• Has strategic impact
• Demonstrates added value
• Achieves additionality
• Ensures coherence
• Is sustainable

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• Nof-digitise as an example
• www.nof.org.uk

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A vision for digi

• To offer new opportunities to improve the quality
  of life for all citizens through the imaginative
  and innovative use of Internet and digital
  technologies to create a coherent body of content
  that will unlock the rich resources of our
  knowledge organisations to support learning for
  life.

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The context for digi

• the Government agenda...
• the whole content landscape

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The nature of the beast

• A true New Opportunity
• Unprecedented scale and scope
• Whole continuum of experience
• A green field site
• A ground-breaking experiment
• Map-making for the broader cultural sector
• Creating digital content for self-directed and
  informal learningNOT just digital soup
• Showcase potential

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Story so far

• 343 bids _at_ Stage One
• 143 million in total (for 50 million fund)
• 239 invited forward to Stage Two
• 40 proposed consortia
• Funding on stream from summer 2001

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Basic assumptions _at_ Stage Two

• Not a competitive approach
• Output-based
• Partnership based
• Technical consistency
• Themed-approach
• Maximum accessibility

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Critical success factors For Stage Two

• Realisation of diversity of resources
• Demonstrate excellence and best practice
• Coherent approach
• Value for money
• cost efficiency
• minimise duplication
• economies of scale

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Themed Bid approach

• Six reasons (at least)
• Partnership focus
• Natural synergies
• Encourages innovation and imagination
• Resource -efficient development
• Coherent, cohesive output
• Improved sustainability

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Synergies

• Building a framework at programme level
• Promote shared development
• Permutations/combinations
• Of theme
• Of place
• Of materials
• Of output

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Levels of integration creating opportunities

• A flexible approach
• NOT a straitjacket
• Innovation, imagination, initiative
• Outward-facing, learner-focus
• Unexpected links
• Lateral thinking

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Integrated whole
Lead partner manages all
Lead Partner
Partner A
Partner B
Partner C
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Partial integration
Lead partner co-ordinates overall. Others take
on selected roles
Lead Partner
Digitisation Partner
Publicity Partner
Web design Partner
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Informal collaboration
Partners largely independent lead has overall
co-ordination role
A
B
Lead
C
D
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Stand alone
Applicants work on stand-alone bids but recognise
overall theme
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Programme support

• NOF/Resource/UKOLN partnership
• general support Peoples Network website
• technical support UKOLN website
• FAQs
• Issue papers
• Worked examples
• Programme materials
• Technical standards
• e-mail discussion list
• workshops
• evaluation

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The way forward

• Strategic alliances and interoperability
• Create a new sense of community for new
  communities
• Remove barriers
• Push out the envelope of debate
• Help develop new economic models
• Encourage shared development frameworks and the
  adoption of a managed environment

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Outcomes...

• Celebration of UK culture, creativity and
  communities
• Interoperable building blocks for the networked
  learning space
• Confident advocates forconfident communities