This call is an opportunity to sustain resources otherwise at risk, and to tackle their sustainability in such a way that lessons can be shared across the sector. It is anticipated that initial planning and preparation will have been under taken and bids should show an understanding of the work involved. Projects should make use of available advice on good practice in the management of digital resources.
Bidders will need to identify the new home for the content. Examples of potential homes for sustaining at risk resources might include public and private organisations such as:
● JISC-funded services such as: Mimas http://mimas.ac.uk/portfolio/current/, Edina http://edina.ac.uk/, Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk and advice and guidance services at JISC Advance http://www.jiscadvance.ac.uk/
Whatever the new home, the content must be made available to FE/HE on an ongoing basis, to ensure continued access, use and maintenance.
As stated in the Call, potential bidders should contact potential new homes to assess feasibility of transfer.
The following list is not exhaustive, but it indicates sources of advice particularly relevant to this work
- Understanding sustainability and doing it better http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/07/jif10/virtualgoodybag/understandingsustainability.aspx
- What to do when a service provider closes http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/documents/briefing-82/
- http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/knowledge-base/594-digitisation-programme-digital-preservation-study Follow link to a downloadable PDF p18-19 is a self assessment questionnaire
- Preservation of Web Resources Handbook: http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/wp/guide/
- Clearing the rights in order to re-release under a Creative Commons license http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2009/10/sca_ipr_toolkit-v2-01_intro.pdf
- Sustainability and business planning http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/business-modelling-publications/