JISC SIS Landscape Study

JISC is funding this landscape study on the UK HE sector use of content, communication and social networking services developed outside the sector by global enterprise. The study is being carried out by Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell at UKOLN.

Although JISC has developed a number of services (e.g. JORUM, JISCmail) specifically for use within the UK HE sector, people within the sector are increasingly using services developed outside the sector, either in addition to – or in some cases instead of – JISC provided services. And as well as using such services, people are also engaging in ‘mashups’ where combinations of services and content are used to provide new services or to provide added value to data already held.

Since evidence of this usage is fragmented and often anecdotal, this study aims to provide a snapshot of the current situation in the UK. This blog is one of the ways we are collecting evidence. In the right hand sidebar there are a series of pages, each looking at a task that you can use Web 2.0 services to do. For any task that is relevant to you, please go to the page and add your comments.

We only have a short time to complete this study, so we’d really appreciate you submitting your comments as soon as possible. We’d also appreciate it, if you could pass this on to your colleagues within your own institution, and at other UK academic institutions. Thank you.