Benefits and impact of digital resources
October 2010: The result of this study, Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship has nowe been published and is available as a pdf version. Extended versions will be available later in the year.
From both JISC and other funding sources there has been significant investment in creating digital resources for education.
Yet, as reports such as those produced by the Oxford Internet Institute report points out, measuring and interpreting the broad impact of digitised resources is a complex task.
There is a mass of extant evidence, but attempts to interpret such evidence have often tended to rely on commonplace assumptions about the nature of digitisation, without fully appreciating the actual way in which end users interact with such digital content.
This study, therefore, performs this task of synthesising information relating to the benefits of digitisation and help provide a compelling argument for future digitisation work.
The study will concentrate on 4 main areas:
- Meeting and advancing research needs
- Bringing collections out of the dark
- Stimulating the economy, underpinning competitiveness and developing skills
- Reaching out and building communities
Project Staff
- Simon Tanner, King's Digital Consultancy Service, King's College London
- Pete Dalton, Evidence Base, Birmingham City University