Presentation to the BBC

Spoken Word Services21st November 2007

www.spokenword.ac.uk

The Team

Glasgow Caledonian

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The Saltire Centre

Today’s Talk

Spoken Word

(1) Introduction and Background(2) What have we done?(3) Challenges and how we overcame

them(4) Where to next?(5) Questions and discussion

(1) Introduction and Background

The Spoken Word vision

‘ … to provide access to rich, authentic digital audio and video resources for Higher Education’

Nature of the Project

Digital Libraries in the Classroom• Programme funded by the JISC in the UK

and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA.

• call required joint UK/USA teams to submit proposals.

• 4 proposals were selected from over 30 responses

• Spoken Word was rated the highest

‘Transformation of teaching and learning’

The JISC

Based in the UK

‘The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research.’

JISC funds:-• national services• a range of programmes and projects

The National Science Foundation (NSF)

Based in the USA

‘to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense’

NSF funds:-• 20% of all federally supported basic research

conducted by America's colleges and universities.

• In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

Duration of the Project

Phase 1: 2003-2006 Set-up, development, roll-out - $5million.

The Glasgow Caledonian portion of this money was the largest single source of funding ever received by the University ($1 million+).

Phase 2: 2006-2008Embedding and sustaining mainly funded

by the UniversitiesDissemination: Programme aspects with

JISC funding

Project Partners

• UK: GCU Partnership with the BBC Information and Archives

• USA: Northwestern and Michigan State Universities

• Overview of roles and responsibilities:GCU: Teaching, learning and researchBBC: Access to contentMSU and NU: Technology and tools

development

The Spoken Word project

Objectives1) augmenting student competence to

write on - and for - the Internet 2) enhancing digital libraries through a

focus on learning 3) improving student learning and

retention 4) developing aural literacy in our students

We believe that 1 and 2 are pre-requisites for achieving 3 and 4

Content

Primarily but not exclusively from the BBC Radio and Television Archives

• Focus on Spoken Word material – historical and contemporary news, interviews, politics, etc.

• Avoidance of drama, music, performance – complex rights issues

• Initial focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, but discipline range now broad

• Initial focus on audio only, but now including material from TV archives too

Content

Non BBC materials include a range of recorded materials from GCU and partner institutions

• Oral history materials• Lectures• Expert seminars• Important institutional events e.g.

graduation ceremonies

Rights

Glasgow Caledonian University and the BBC agreed:-

• A legal Deposit Agreement• An informal Memorandum of

Understanding

Glasgow Caledonian University developed a legal End-User Agreement based on this Deposit Agreement

Mission and values

EU - HMG – JISC - GCU‘Capacity building’ – open source and open

standards - interoperability

GCU – Mission – Teaching and Learning - Saltire Centre

Contribute to delivery of learning that is:-• Personalised• Inclusive• Flexible• Productive

Where we want to be

• Development of sustainable digital library services with lasting benefit beyond project – Spoken Word Services

• Continuing to provide access to high quality digital audio and video materials, selected and enhanced by academic experts

• A continuing relationship with the BBC

(2) What have we done?

Developed a user base

Learners

JISC programme and project aims:-

• ‘Transformation of Teaching and Learning’

• Transform what and why?

Learning and teaching

Some Traditional Values…Aspirations and Ambitions

‘To induce students to think for themselves, work on their own …. and contribute to the work of groups’

But Elite Values and Mass Higher Education

Potential Opportunities and Advantages of C&IT

Learning and teaching

Some Contemporary Realities…

Social and Technological Imperatives Citizenship, Work and Leisure in an Ever-Changing World

Embracing the Socio-Technological World of the Modern Learner

Student expectations?

Student expectations?

Enhancing access

Spoken Word model

Enabling Pedagogical Pluralism ... A modular approach for managing change

Banks of content: the ‘essence’ (primary audio/video repositories)

Catalogues and finding aids (secondary and tertiary repositories)

User Applications (the ‘presentation layer’)

Collaborations

Some examples in practice

Towards an international Community of Practice ….

- English Language at Bologna- Political Economy at Stirling and Glasgow

Caledonian- Social work and Social Policy at Glasgow

Caledonian- Anthropology (History of India) at Columbia- History (impact of technology since 1945) at

Northwestern- Law and Ethics at Edinburgh- Hospitality Management at Strathclyde- Media Ethics at Glasgow Caledonian (show)- Women in British Politics at Kansas State

Digital Libraries

We developed a workflow for handling BBC materials and a repository for storage

• ReposMySQL + PHP; developed by partners at

Michigan State

• Padova front-end finding aid built on top of this

Standards

Importance of standards for interoperability – essential for worldwide Scholarly Communication

• Metadata standardsMapped BBC Infax to Dublin CoreFrom DC to other standards such as

MARC21, METS and UK-LOM Core

• Technical StandardsOAI-PMH for sharing metadataSRW for cross searching

Finding stuff

• Padova - an open source meta-linking finding aid which sits on top of our Repos repository

• Dynamic XML feeds for searches (RSS, ATOM, and for Podcasts), Linking, Citation

• Citations in standard formats• Integration with Delicious, Google

Scholar, Wikipedia

Padova …. find+

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Accessing our resources4 easy steps for learners

• Go to www.spokenword.ac.uk

• Click on ‘Find Audio & Video’

• Start searching

• Sign up for a free educational user account to access media

Padova

What then? Adding value

Development of specific contextual services based on Spoken Word content

• Podcast services – audio and video – examples (show Karen Thompson)

• Blog services• Integration of content with existing

educational systems e.g. VLE like BlackBoard

• Media Annotation!

(3) Challenges

Media Annotation

The Challenge

• Let people work easily together with digital media online

• Provide powerful tools for critiquing andsharing annotations of digital media objects online in real time

• Provide federated search and ability to shareannotated materials via repositories

Media Annotation

Project Pad

- Developed in partnership with Academic Technologies at Northwestern University

- Browser based annotation and collaboration tool for images, audio and video

- Potential integration with repository and VLE environments

- Open Source- Java server side; Flash client side

Media Annotation

Project Pad

Rights

3 main challenges

• Deposit and serving: BBC / Caledonian Legal Deposit agreement

• Users and permissions: the Glasgow Caledonian User License

• Third party rights and permissions - coping with the 1988 Copyright Act

Legal Deposit Agreement

Gives worldwide permissions • to display• to stream• to download for individual study

purposes

Restrictions• Provisional temporal permissions• Limited to “educational users”• Requirement to handle third party rights

Spoken Word End-User

Licence Agreement ‘ …. OK, it goes like this… you just accessed our

materials archive, for which we are truly grateful (after all, your interest keeps us in business). However, when you accessed it, you were actually only being given the right to download or stream parts of it for educational use, not to republish or repost it. The stuff contained in the archive still belongs to us, or those third parties who have allowed us to make it available to you. By allowing you access to this material, we are “licensing” it to you. This is a lot like renting it forever… we still own it but you can use it all you want but only for educational use. What does all this mean to you? …’

Radical Active Clearance

• Procedures Identify, trace and contact third parties Request permissions Present outcomes and request the comments of experts

• Outcomes Tracing participantsWe have attempted to trace 659 participantsFailed to make contact with 278Had replies from 250Currently attempting 131 (46 of these we are in dialogue with)

• Refusals and confusions Poetry: 14 refusals or acceptable conditions General: 4 refusals or acceptable conditions Confusions: "What did I say?  Can I listen to that? etc" "I don't

have any rights! Talk to the BBC...“

• Permissions        246 signed our permissions form with no reservations or

conditions

Some Examples

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(4) Where to next?

Digital Libraries

Moving now to Fedora

• Open source• Java-based system• all content, metadata and relationships

stored as XML• Highly flexible, scalable and

configurable• All management and access tasks

possible through web service API interfaces

Why Fedora?

Meets OAIS requirementsTrusted digital repository requires:-

• persistent identifiers• mechanisms for open access• mediated deposit• quality metadata• authentication and authorisation• federated resource discovery• provision for long term preservation

Fedora

• Developed from the US education digital library community, especially at Cornell University and University of Virginia

• Now worldwide

Fedora UK & Ireland

Scholarly Communication

International Scholarly Communication requires:-

• Trusted digital repositories• Use of common standards for interoperability• Better federated identity management –

Shibboleth• Ability to capture and store user generated

content – annotations, metadata, objects• A flexible, modular approach to deal with

technological change• To support choice and allow imaginative

connections between scholars

Some Future Developments

• A new front end finding aid to work with Fedora, retaining Padova functionality

• Integration of annotation tools with this finding aid – allowing users access to favourites, notes and annotations

• Community of practice model showing different ‘types’ of users – harnessing power of ‘trusted academic experts’

• Automated systems to allow teachers and students to create their own podcasts

Relationship with the BBC

Increasing demand for BBC content from further/higher educational communities

Towards greater rights protection and jurisdiction - Shibboleth

Towards "cease and desist" rights declarations?

How do we move forward?• Continuation of deposit model?or• Hook into open BBC services; allowing us

to build education specific applications/expertise on top of BBC systems and content?

(5) Questions?

Further Information

Spoken Word Serviceshttp://www.spokenword.ac.uk

Digital Libraries in the Classroom(including project videos)http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_dlitc.aspx

The Saltire Centrehttp://www.gcal.ac.uk/thesaltirecentre

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Contact

Iain WallaceDigital Services Development LibrarianE: iain.wallace@gcal.ac.uk T: 0141 273 1901W: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk