Wasn't there a similar Dr Who episode? Only the library turned out to be
in a little girl's imagination.
Anna
On 14/11/2012 15:00, "Frank Manista" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Didn't Dave White's work on impact point to this very problem -- the
>iceberg analogy? The "stuff" is there, but unless we can show people are
>using the stuff, then just having a count doesn't give us much. Borges
>has a short story about a library where there is every book ever written,
>along with every variation and every rebuttal, but no one can get in or
>out of the library;)
>
>Best,
>Frank
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>On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:28:25 -0000, Phil Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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>> On 14/11/2012 13:37, Sarah Currier wrote:
>>> "I would be remiss to not express my misgivings" - which include the
>>> fact that it's harder to disambiguate a large number of resources with
>>> the same tag expressing different properties ("funded by UKOER" *and*
>>> "produced by member of UK OER community"), than to just have a new tag
>>> that expresses the new property.
>> And
>>
>> On 14/11/2012 13:51, Jacqueline Carter wrote:
>>> ESRC (and possibly other research council) funded projects are required
>>> to submit an impact report 12 months after the funding ends. That's why
>>> I asked my question about does mapping OER to funding matter. I'm
>>> hearing no. That's fine - although as impact is so important for
>>> everything we do now I'm not sure I agree wholeheartedly with the
>>> consensus being reached via this list.
>>
>> But I don't think it was ever the aim of the programme just to release a
>> number of resources, the aim was sustained release, "turning the tap on"
>> was one metaphor. So counting the number of resources is a poor way of
>> measuring its impact. Sustainability meant setting up processes so that
>> the effects would outlive the funding. I think of resources tagged as
>> UKOER as being those where release was facilitated (at least in part) as
>> a result of the programme not just those that were directly funded by
>>it.
>>
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
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