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

Submitted by David Morse on Tue, 19/04/2011 - 13:50
 
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
 
 
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