Dear all,

You may be interested in our forthcoming workshop:

Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content

Friday 20 May 2011 09:30 - 16:00

Location: Jesus College, Ship Street Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford

Registration: Up to 100 places are available (register here). There is a registration fee of £25 to cover lunch and refreshments. Students wishing to attend can request a waiver of the registration fees by emailing: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

Sponsors: Joint Information Systems Committee

About the workshop:

The question of how we can measure and understand the usage and impact of digital content within the education sector is becoming increasingly important. Substantial investment goes into the creation of digital resources for research, teaching and learning and, in the current economic climate, both content creators, publishers as well as funding bodies are being asked to provide evidence of the value of the resources they’ve invested in.

But how do we go about defining value and impact? Which metrics should we adopt to understand usage? When is a digital resource a well used resource?

This one-day event will explore these and other key issues and showcase the work of the JISC-funded Impact and Embedding of Digitised Resources programme.

Speakers include: Melissa Highton (Oxford University Computing Services), Brian Kelly (UKOLN), Dr Jane Winters (Head of Publications, IHR), Professor David Robey (Oxford e-Research Centre), Paola Marchionni (JISC), Dr Eric T. Meyer (Oxford Internet Institute), and Dr Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute).

The workshop is aimed at:

· content creators and publishers

· Information professionals and content managers in charge of maintaining and developing digital collections

· librarians, archivists and institutional staff involved in digitisation efforts

· researchers and research directors interested in learning about alternative methods of measuring impact

· representatives of funding and evaluation bodies

· early career researchers concerned about ways of demonstrating the impact of their online activities

· those interested in understanding the impact of distributing materials online

Further details are available at our website: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=428

Please direct any queries to events@oii.ox.ac.uk

Dr Kathryn Eccles

Research Fellow

Oxford Internet Institute

University of Oxford

1 St Giles

Oxford OX1 3JS

e-mail: kathryn.eccles@oii.ox.ac.uk

Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=138

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