Spotlight on the digital draft project outcomes

1. Providing services and tools to maximise discovery of institutions’ digital collections
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2. Spotlight on the Digital - Phase 2
Spotlight on the Digital 2
Providing services and tools to maximise discovery of
institutions’ digital collections over time
WP1: Provide national training and advice services to
support discoverability good practice Jisc Digital Media
WP2: Develop tools to facilitate discoverability of digital
collections Jisc services and external stakeholders
WP3: Optimise Jisc resource discovery services to increase
visibility of digital collections Copac, Archives Hub
WP4: Provide horizon scanning on rapidly changing
technology in resource discovery Jisc discovery
services , Jisc Digital Media, external stakeholders
Audience: librarians, information professionals, archivists, e-resource managers,
academics responsible for creation and management of digital collections

3. Institutions’ digital collections must capitalise on the most effective discovery techniques if they
are to reach the widest audiences. Combining training and online guidance positions institutions
to maximise the impact of their digital content on research, teaching and learning, signalling
confidence that content will persist for use and citation, and investment will not be lost.
Spotlight on the Digital 3
1.1 National training on optimising discovery and impact of digital
collections through Jisc Digital Media
1.2 Practical advice and guidance through Jisc Digital Media including the
enhanced Jisc online guide “Make your digital resources easier to discover”
1.3 Investigation on feasibility of an accreditation programme validating
Institutions’ effective resource discovery behaviours
Training modules based on online guide at 1.2
Integrating Jisc online resources, such as IPR guidelines from Jisc legal
Based on online guide (1.1 ) and tools (2.1) developed for resource discovery
“Discovery scholarships” + case studies for piloting training with institutions
National training and advice services to support discoverability
good practice through Jisc Digital Media

4. In collaboration with key external stakeholders such as UK Higher Education institutions and
major aggregators such as Europeana and DPLA, Jisc services will develop tools to assist owners
of digital collections enhance their discoverability on the web now and into the future.The focus
of development will be on better indexing of institutions’ collections and monitoring of the online
persistence of assets on the web to promote discoverability and reuse.
GLAMwiki Toolset http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Project
FindDPLA http://dp.la/apps/19
Spotlight on the Digital 4
2.1 Product release of new-to-market resource discovery tool available
through Jisc
Leveraging emerging directions in tool discoverability from major resource
aggregators such as Europeana, DPLA and Wikipedia
Agile development of tools responds to institutions’ inputs and needs
Developing tools to facilitate discovery of digital collections
Tools tested and embedded in selected institutions to exemplify adoption
and use

5. In alignment with the Jisc Resource Discovery, optimise Copac and Archives Hub to include,
respectively, links to digital collection-level descriptions and item-level records with digital
content attached.
Spotlight on the Digital 5
3.1 Integrating digital themed collection level descriptions currently
available on the Jisc Content portal (www.jisc-content.ac.uk) within Archives
Hub
3.2 Enhancing bibliographic records in Copac by Linking digitised medical
monographs from the Jisc-Wellcome UK Medical History Library
digitisation project to their respective item-level textual records in Copac
Optimise Jisc resource discovery services to increase visibility and
viability of digital collections

6. In alignment with Jisc Resource Discovery, create an active engagement in horizon scanning
around the topic of resource discovery in the context of digital collections. Drawn from
stakeholders within the HE sector, national and cultural institutions, this group will act as leading-
edge investigators reporting on key technical and market trends and feed into WP1 and WP2.
Spotlight on the Digital 6
4.1 Publishing regular briefing paper on trends in discovery environments
and search behaviours
4.2 Expert group to discuss trends in discovery environments and potential
impact on user behaviour
Horizon scanning on technology and user behaviour trends in
discovery of digital resources to inform future directions in services
development