{"product_id":"9780081002797","title":"Stepping Away from the Silos: Strategic Collaboration in Digitisation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over twenty years, digitisation has been a core element of the modern information landscape. The digital lifecycle is now well defined, and standards and good practice have been developed for most of its key stages. There remains, however, a widespread lack of coordination of digitisation initiatives, both within and across different sectors, and there are disparate approaches to selection criteria. The result is ‘silos’ of digitised content. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eStepping away from the Silos examines the strategic context in the UK since the 1990s and its effect on collaboration and coordination of exemplar digitisation initiatives in higher education and related sectors. It identifies the principal criteria for content selection that are common to the international literature in this field. The outputs of the exemplar projects are examined in relation to these criteria. A range of common practices and patterns in content selection appears to have developed over time, forming a \u003ci\u003ede facto\u003c\/i\u003e strategy from which several areas of critical mass have emerged. The book discusses the potential to improve strategic collaboration and coordinated selection by building on such a platform, and considers planning options in the context of work on national digitisation strategies in the UK and internationally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummarises the rise of publicly funded digitisation in the UK from the 1990s to date and identifies the need to improve coordination and content selection criteria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReviews the role of digitisation in government and organisational strategies from the 1990s to the present day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines the strategic position of collaboration within and across different organisations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentifies common selection criteria and outlines the coverage of exemplar projects  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses the apparent emergence of a de facto selection strategy and the potential for national strategic planning of digitised content based on existing  outputs and improved collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Elsevier Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079415120112,"sku":"9780081002797","price":78.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780081002797_p0.jpg?v=1763639527","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780081002797","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}