{"id":18,"date":"2009-05-15T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/keepit\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:46:29","slug":"another-perspective-on-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/keepit\/2009\/05\/15\/another-perspective-on-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Another perspective on the conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Steve suggested that for the diary, there might be different perspectives on a Project event.\u00a0 Steve and I had a meeting as a preparation for participation in the KeepIt Project.\u00a0 Steve has blogged from his perspective on our conversation and this is my take on some aspects of our discussion:<\/span><\/p>\n

I am manager of the EdShare learning and teaching repository in the University of Southampton: <\/span>www.edshare.soton.ac.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We have developed Edshare over the last 18 months as a JISC-funded institutional exemplar project. <\/span>The focus of the project has been split between 50% technical and 50% cultural change. <\/span>Working with my colleague, Jessie Hey, as academic advocates to engage colleagues involved in learning and teaching across the University, to engage with the idea of a learning and teaching repository, to commit to adding content to EdShare and then to develop our understanding of how it is meaningful for teachers to work with their resources in this way, to share their materials with other teachers and to respond to other folk who happen to find their materials as a consequence of undertaking searches on the open web. <\/span><\/p>\n

When I was in discussion with Steve, I reflected on the extent to which preservation issues have or haven\u2019t figured in the work of our Project. <\/span>Certainly, we have always been concerned to build good rapport with teachers and academics and have engaged people with issues such as: a safe<\/strong> place to deposit material you really care about; developing the confidence<\/strong> of depositors that we will respect and present their materials appropriately; extending our professional role as librarians to build on the trust <\/strong>that <\/strong>we rely on in our academic communities. <\/span>I wouldn\u2019t, though, consider using the \u201cpreservation\u201d word. <\/span>Indeed, Steve mentioned rather \u201clong term management\u201d of the resources and materials that we are interested in, and this felt much more comfortable as a term to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another aspect that we touched on in our discussion was that of \u201csignificant properties\u201d in resources within the scope of EdShare. <\/span>We are experiencing (and anticipate a likely increase) a significant diversity of formats in materials deposited in EdShare. <\/span>Given this situation, we also anticipate that there are likely to be a wider range of challenges from the long term management perspective. From the author\u2019s point of view, however, the concept of \u201csignificant properties\u201d may override consideration of more \u201csecure\u201d or more easily managed formats. <\/span>Thus, a Camtasia file has come to the notice of one of our technical team. <\/span>This format type has been \u201cred flagged\u201d in terms of preservation risk. <\/span>What Camtasia does essentially is screen recorder software which bundles audio, video and other files together and presents a very neat, easy to use index menu presented as well. <\/span>Indeed this last aspect has been higlighted to me personally by a University colleague as the \u201csignificant property\u201d of this software over other competitor products. <\/span>So, explaining to an academic or learning technologist that their preferred choice of an attractive, easy-to-use and very well-designed software product is a problem from the perspective of \u201cpreservation\u201d may not necessarily win them over to our concerns in this field. <\/span>How should <\/strong>we approach these challenges? <\/span><\/p>\n

Debra Morris<\/span><\/p>\n

EdShare, University of Southampton<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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