The Strategic Content Alliance (www.jisc.ac.uk/contentalliance) is conducting a series of FREE workshops aimed at anyone who is involved in the creation and curation of digital content. All workshops offer the opportunity to use free tools in order to answer real world problems, using real world examples

These workshops offer delegates the opportunity to make the most out of their collections and archives using a range of free tools and digital strategies. They will demonstrate how to harness copyright law, 2^1st Century business models and cutting edge technology and techniques.

Specialisms for each workshop include:

Audience Analysis- to meet user needs
Business Modeling and Sustainability
Intellectual Property Rights and Licencing
Search Engine Optimisation / Internet Marketing
Introduction to Digipedia- a moderated wiki aimed at synthesising the digital content life-cycle information and knowledge from authoritative sources

For dates, locations and specialisms, please see: http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop aims to help archivists, curators, teachers, academics, librarians and lecturers specifically, but others working in the creation and delivery of online content more broadly to get to grips with how they can best exploit opportunities legally – using real world examples.

For example:

Learning objects creation- Am I allowed to share these with colleagues?

Collection digitization for online delivery- How can I continue with the digitisation project once the initial funding has ran out?

Which tools have been developed?

To help you overcome issues surrounding digital creation and curation, we have developed a suite of tools which are freely available. These include toolkits, reports and case-studies held at:

http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/publications/

(Please do read through before the workshop if possible)

Please visit http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/workshop, choose the date and location with the associated ‘Specialist theme’ and mark the sessions that you wish to attend.

In cases where there is genuine financial hardship the Alliance will reimburse standard class travel to/from the workshop.