Sample – Education Project Summary
August 2, 2016Education Outcomes
For relevant parts of the community the outcomes of a successful project would include some or all of the following:
- The project partners in corporate and embed the outputs and outcomes into their work
- A greater awareness of the rights issues involved in information objects and digital repositories
- A greater sense of empowerment when dealing with rights issues generally
- Feeling more able to negotiate with rights holders more effectively
- Increased advocacy for dealing with rights issues in information object repositories
- Ability to manage digital content in a more sustainable manner
- Greater awareness of how a repository of information objects may fit into the work of an institution
- A re-evaluation of the role of content in teaching
- Understanding the concept of the lifecycle of a digital asset
- Adopting a more long term and strategic attitude to the management of digital teaching and information materials
- Taking more realistic attitudes to the costs, benefits and risks of operating a digital repository of information objects
- Increased sharing and collaboration between repositories, institutions and individuals
- Greater sharing of information materials in the educational and training sectors
- Rights holders feeling more confidence and trust in information object repositories
- Better ability to identify and control the risk to institutions
- Increasing use of a growing set of community resources such as, policy documents, contracts, protocols, licenses, standards and metadata etc. across the sector helping to provide a more sustainable and trusted DRM regime (possibly with associated support groups)
Stakeholder Analysis
| Stakeholder | Interest / stake | Importance |
| Representatives and participants | The materials they produce and the materials they use. Their relationships to each other and their employers. Remuneration | High |
| Authors and their representative bodies | Their public image and reputation. Moral Rights. Copyright. Remuneration | Medium |
| Publishers, media design companies and their representative bodies. Supported enterprise organisations for the media and knowledge economy | Copyright, Remuneration. Public image. Future strategic planning Strategic planning and support | Medium Medium |
| Institutional Managers (Principals, Secretaries, Heads of IS) and Legal Officers (Data protection etc) | Risk. Legal Compliance. Cost benefit analysis of any proposals. Strategic analysis and planning at institutional levels. Knowledge management and exploitation | High |
| National Educational Funding Bodies | Strategic planning & development | Medium |
| Librarians and Information Managers in the UHI, Ulster and the participants | Metadata creation and maintenance, legal issues, information resource collection and provision and management | High |
| Information Systems Developers in the organization and the participants | Getting the metadata to ‘talk’ to, IT, MIS, and Library and Repository systems | High |
| Metadata and Educational Technical Standards Organisations & Community | Compliance, best practice, future development, interoperability development | Medium |
| Communities associated with; Open Source, Open Archives, Creative Commons. | Advocacy materials and case studies, PR opportunities | Medium |
| Staff development bodies | Strategic planning | Medium |