SCA MORE workshop series by JISC Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and Netskills

Transcript of video interviews

Attendees were interviewed during the second day of the workshop. This is a transcript of some of those video interviews.

What did you gain from attending the workshop?

Laura Kaagan, MIMAS

I think the best part of it is hearing everyone else's experiences and being able to discuss them with other people and my experiences in my organisation and get some ideas to take back. Particularly today covering content strategy because I think this is one of the first workshops that I've been to that has actually highlighted the area of content strategy which is going to be quite important going forward in the future.

Fabio Lahr, University of Cambridge

I think one of the most important things of the workshop is that it sparks so many, different ideas. You touch so many different points throughout the workshop. The other thing that I think is great is all the contacts you make, people you meet, apart from the people who are actually lecturing but who are attending.

Andrew James, Scran

I was hoping to come here to learn more about web site optimisation and using social media to enable this. I was very interested in all the talks yesterday where we were discussing strategies like facebook and twitter. I was very surprised to find that twitter was such a big driver of web traffic, I had no idea, so I will have to get more into more social networking.

Ali Kazemi, Kingston University

I am personally very interested in social media and as a person I use the networking sites quite a lot so trying to understand how we can best position our university in that space is really foremost for me and the rest of my team.

Mark Chatterley, The National Strategies

I like the discussions and passing stuff backwards and forwards with the people giving the presentations. I found the discussions that come up really, really interesting like metadata, how you can use the data to link various parts together and potentially get unexpected results in a good way.

What will you be taking away from this workshop?

Mark Chatterley, The National Strategies

A wider knowledge of especially the newer standards that are coming out and how they can be used and implemented so the session we learnt about HTML5 and CSS3 was really interesting, really good.

Fabio Lahr, University of Cambridge

Apart from all the ideas, just a concept of how to develop content, content lifecycle really. To go back to the institution which is responsible for a number of web sites and try to find the people who are actually responsible for the content and try to engage them into producing better content.

Ben Whitehouse, JISC

I think the action points for me are looking on how to add more semantic meaning to the data on our sites.

Julia Charlton, Royal Holloway

I'm going to speak to our web developer, the college webmaster, about whether we've got any RDFa libraries in the new content management system and want to start using it in our web site/pages.

Andrew James, Scran

Definitely more social networking and taking a closer look at things like RDFa and some of the other protocols and tools we've been introduced to in the past two days.