Host your own programme meeting
JISC regularly holds meetings for the people involved in the projects funded under a particular programme. These programme meetings are popular. Well, some parts are, the networking parts are popular, the parts where we discuss JISC objectives and reporting are less popular.
Because the Repositories and Preservation Programme is very large (circa 80 projects) and addresses a variety of themes, it is very difficult for JISC to design programme meetings that meet the networking and sharing needs of all the project staff while still acheiving those pesky JISC objectives.
To help with this difficulty we decided to offer extra funding to project staff to enable them to host their own programme meetings. These meetings would be free from JISC interference (unless desired) and would be based around themes chosen by the project staff. The only restriction we placed on the meetings was that they had to include case studies and networking.
We got a healthy response to this idea and as a result the following meetings will be funded:
20th May 2008 - Differences between research repositories and repositories for learning and teaching purposes - DRAW project (University of Worcester).
June 2008 - From VLE to Repository: How do we do it? - CURVE project (University of Coventry).
June 2008 - Digital Curation and Preservation Projects Forum – Placing Ourselves in the Bigger Picture - The preservation strand of the Repositories and Preservation Programme.
September 2008 - The Impact of Organisational Culture on Repository Growth and Development - Embed project (Cranfield University).
November 2008 - Advocacy issues in populating institutional repositories - BURP project (University of Bradford).
November or December 2008 - Demonstrating and exploiting repository value - NECTAR (University of Northampton) and WRAP (University of Warwick) projects.
All dates may be subject to change.
The meetings are primarily for staff working on projects funded under the repositories and preservation programme however some people from outside may be invited and any spare capacity will be opened up to the wider community.
Further details will be blogged in due course.
Posted by: Andy McGregor
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