tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58246847173226730222024-03-15T16:51:52.786+00:00When the Data hits the Fan!The blog of Simon Tanner (@SimonTanner)Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-42343872109457933582023-09-28T10:16:00.002+01:002023-09-28T10:34:15.275+01:00Written Artefacts: Research and Ethics - the DataWritten Artefacts: Research and EthicsLet's consider some of the contemporary challenges addressed by digital tools & methods in terms of research ethics and strategySocial role of cultural organisationsEvidencing climate changeDemographic shiftsStaging social justice activityCombating cultural object traffickingDecolonising
I am sharing here my slides and content presented Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0Hamburg, Germany53.5488282 9.987170299999998925.238594363821157 -25.1690797 81.859062036178841 45.1434203tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-49740271300684626372022-09-15T21:04:00.003+01:002022-09-15T21:14:12.576+01:00Was a Dead Sea Scroll found in Amy Winehouse's hair? Nope, of course not!. But back in 2008, I did lead a team to digitise the Dea Sea Scrolls. It got so much press coverage at the time that it led to this charming parody news story. I'm sat bored at the airport when Facebook memories suggest this from 14 years ago today, so I checked it out and it still makes me laugh.
The text states:JERUSALEM (CAP) - Scholars of the Dead Sea scrolls, Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-49088341772948554692022-04-06T16:15:00.007+01:002022-04-06T16:46:30.109+01:00Finding the Arch in the archiveThis paper explores how and where Archbishop Desmond Tutu's life and work are represented in various archival materials. It then proposes some areas of research collaboration and value.
Presented by Professor Simon Tanner at the Desmond Tutu: Spirituality, Social Justice and Leadership colloquium (6 April 2022). The colloquium commemorates the life and work of Nobel Prize winner the late Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-6827692425863437432022-03-18T11:42:00.010+00:002022-03-18T12:16:36.312+00:00The revolution starts here: open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the UK
A report was released this week that is the single most important piece of research conducted on the subject of copyright and cultural heritage in the UK.Conducted by Dr Andrea Wallace this work needs to signal the start of an evolution in practice for UK museums, libraries and archives with a revolution in access and re-use for the general public.
As the report states, we need policy that Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-76729618880425307532021-01-18T11:51:00.000+00:002021-01-18T11:51:12.206+00:00What is a strategy?A strategy, most simply, is a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim. It is the answer to the question ‘where are we going and why?’ Strategy differs from the everyday management processes and plans implemented as a procedure, policy or protocol that answers a different question: ‘how do we get things done around here?’
As Freedman puts it, a strategy is ‘about Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com9London, UK51.5073509 -0.127758323.197117063821153 -35.284008299999996 79.817584736178844 35.028491700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-23172050705811829092020-01-13T18:10:00.001+00:002020-01-14T12:00:53.152+00:00BVIModel.org - new impact model website launched
I am announcing a new web resource: the Balanced Value Impact Model. Visit for exemplars, implementations, templates, a bibliography and a glossary of the BVI Model. BVIModel.org also supports the release of my book: Delivering Impact with Digital Resources.
The BVI Model
The BVI Model is a cohesive model to provide a useful definition and process of impact assessment. The Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-82131778366005939722019-07-24T09:35:00.004+01:002020-01-13T18:44:35.088+00:00Balanced Value Impact Model at #LibPMC
Image courtesy of @LIbPMC conference
I delivered a keynote on the Balanced Value Impact Model to the International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, Aberystwyth, Wales on the 23rd July 2019.
See the conference hashtag #LibPMC and website for more information.
The slides for this talk are available on Slideshere:
The Balanced Value Impact Model V2.0 from Simon Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com5Aberystwyth, UK52.415302999999987 -4.082920000000058352.395932999999985 -4.1232605000000584 52.434672999999989 -4.0425795000000582tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-38112549998781065992018-09-03T00:11:00.001+01:002018-09-03T00:14:26.763+01:00Keynote: Proposing the modes of digital value for a memory institution
Proposing the modes of digital value for a memory institution from Simon Tanner
Proposing the modes of digital value for a memory institution
Keynote delivered to the Museums and Digital Memory: from creation and curation to digital preservation - a British Museum conference: Monday 3rd September 2018 #MADM2018
ABSTRACT
I conceive of museums as ‘memory institutions’ as they assume a Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com27Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG, UK51.5194133 -0.1269565999999713351.203300299999995 -0.77240359999997132 51.8355263 0.51849040000002866tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-12516009772583166072017-10-15T16:56:00.000+01:002019-02-17T13:56:31.912+00:00BVI Model Version 2 Overview
The Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model) has been used and tested in many memory institutions since 2012. Here I publish the major modifications that make up BVI Model Version 2. The full Version 2 of the BVI Model will be published in my book: Delivering Impact with Digital Resources: Planning strategy in the attention economy due in 2019.
The Balanced Value Impact Model is named for a Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com5London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-21800658025016026372017-07-14T11:03:00.000+01:002017-07-14T11:32:23.462+01:00How much newspaper content is digitized?
There is a lot of digitized newspaper out there in the world but it still seems to be a small fraction of the total newspaper collections worldwide (possibly less than 5% of all English language content by my guesswork). This blog highlights some sources and seeks more information on how much newspaper is out there and yet to be digitized?
A quick look at the Library of Congress Historic Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com4London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-79048925482902352542017-06-26T12:49:00.005+01:002017-06-26T12:49:47.996+01:00Elsevier losses questioned in SciHub case
This is a guest blog by Professor Charles Oppenheim which details some intriguing calculations from the Elsevier copyright case against Sci-Hub. Important questions are posed, will someone from Elsevier be willing to answer them?
I’ve been doing some calculations regarding the losses alleged by Elsevier due to Sci-Hub’s activities. The figures I have used are based on Elsevier’s reportedSimon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com1London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-36191620670927389742017-06-18T12:35:00.001+01:002017-08-01T12:23:17.367+01:00Gold is a dead model for Open Access Books
Book of the Dead
of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes),
ca. 332–200 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551786
The recent final reports for the Academic Book of the Future are a revealing, well balanced account of the current and future state of scholarly monograph publishing in the UK. One feature is the close attention given to Open Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com3London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-79710650487358330532016-10-27T12:33:00.000+01:002016-10-27T16:44:11.908+01:00Open Content from a Small Museum: DAC Open Access Images
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). The Three Trees, 1643. Etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper. Only state. Plate: 212 x 280 mm. Sheet: 223 x 284 mm. DAC accession number 1951.D1.1. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1951. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: R. Lee)
Guest post by Rob Lancefield, Manager of Museum Information Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-15865426387368587762016-09-09T11:32:00.000+01:002017-09-08T09:25:49.643+01:00Illustrating the special importance of books to the Arts and Humanities
The importance of books is clear for the Arts and Humanities in the UK as indicated by approximately ¼ of all submissions to the REF in book form and in addition book chapters remain an important factor in submission.
These heatmap visualisations for the Academic Book of the Future quickly illustrates the stark differences in forms of scholarly communication across UK HE.
click to expand
Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-25784993802636226862016-07-29T13:18:00.001+01:002016-07-29T14:48:15.342+01:00Reshaping the REF balloon - the Stern Review
Source: https://flic.kr/p/8hHczB
Trying to make a change to the REF whilst not breaking it is akin to squeezing a balloon. Press or reshape too much and it bursts, but solving a problem by squeezing in one area produces bulges elsewhere.
And so we come to the Stern Review - an independent review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) - that was published this week. [link]
The Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-44930112729715953452016-05-03T18:50:00.001+01:002016-06-16T10:16:57.040+01:00Open GLAM: The Rewards (and Some Risks) of Digital Sharing for the Public Good
Figure 1: img_japanese04, Bridgestone Museum of Art, 17.146 px/in, 2016. Fujishima Takeji, 1867-1943, Black Fan, 1908-1909, Oil on canvas, 63.7 x 42.4 cm, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo. This digital surrogate is © Bridgestone Museum of Art.
Open GLAM: The Rewards (and Some Risks) of Digital Sharing for the Public Good
by Simon Tanner
The research-led exhibition experiment Display Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-71962179479042080902016-03-08T17:20:00.005+00:002016-03-08T17:41:29.766+00:00Burning eBooks - B&N "nukes the NOOK"
Barnes & Noble is shutting down its Nook app store, (effective from March 15, 2016) through which it sold ebooks for its e-reader, the Nook.
Unless Nook owners in the UK take action immediately then their ebooks (& films) could be lost to them. It is yet another example of how you don’t own your ebooks with DRM - you’re merely licensing the right to read them for a time. This Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-10247426098280044602016-02-12T00:07:00.001+00:002016-02-12T00:12:52.184+00:00Open Access to research publications - independent advice and evidence
February is a month of discovery. Not just of gravitational waves but for increased evidence for Open Access, for the costs of publishing monographs and for academic journal markets.
This blog focuses on the highlights of Professor Adam Tickell’s OA report to Jo Johnson (Minister of State for Universities and Science) that has been published today, with the Minister’s response. It also Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-80549994582616584092015-12-08T12:59:00.003+00:002016-01-17T15:47:24.882+00:00What does value and impact mean?
Please help me to define and understand value and impact from your perspective.
Thank you for coming and reading this post - I hope you can contribute as well.
I am writing a book, due out in 2016!
Delivering Impact with Digital Resources
Planning Strategy in the Attention Economy
I want to include as many views and thoughts from all of you about what is value and impact. If you would, Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-35220846338298960212015-11-23T20:33:00.002+00:002015-11-25T10:02:56.000+00:00Arts & Humanities mentioned 5 times in the Nurse Review
The recent Nurse Review "Ensuring a Successful UK Research Endeavour" mentions "science" 94 times and the "arts" and/or "humanities" less than half a dozen times.
That's not much for arts and humanities so here are all those mentions in full.
1. Guidelines and principles (page 2)
In this review the terms ‘research’ and ‘science’ are usually used in the context of the entire academic Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188318500000001 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-36662164164036339332015-11-12T17:39:00.001+00:002015-11-25T09:29:26.266+00:00The most influential academic book in history as seen by Google's nGram
When Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was voted the most influential academic book ever as part of the inaugural Academic Book Week I wondered what the result might look like through the lens of book analytic data provided by Google.
The top five in the #20ABCWorld poll were:
On the Origins of Species - Charles Darwin
The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels
The Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com1United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188318500000001 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-46046922250463665752015-10-14T13:22:00.001+01:002016-03-08T12:21:48.471+00:00The Wine, the Glass and the DrinkingDuring my keynote at the DCDC2015 Conference I challenged the audience to consider whether the value that exists in a digital resource reflected the analogy of: is the value in the wine, the glass or the drinking?
It is obvious all three are needed (and you could add other features), but maybe to a greater or lesser degree. If Wine = Content, the Glass = Infrastructure and the Drinking = Access Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0Salford, UK53.487523499999988 -2.290126399999962853.411948499999987 -2.4514878999999627 53.563098499999988 -2.1287648999999629tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-72384643584682748162015-10-05T10:47:00.000+01:002015-10-05T10:54:00.117+01:00Colour Charts & Metadata on the Moon
as17-148-chart: Apollo 17 Hasselblad image from
film magazine 148/NN - Earth, LM Inspection, Orbital
The recent release to Flickr of all of the roughly 11,000 images taken on the NASA Apollo moon missions is the re-presentation of the public domain NASA-provided Apollo mission imagery as it was originally provided in its raw, high-resolution and unprocessed form.
One of the nice things to seeSimon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-40440503282442476482015-09-24T10:06:00.003+01:002015-10-05T10:49:05.062+01:00Crowdsourcing is Dead - Long Live Citizen HumanitiesWhen Jeremy Corbyn recently "crowdsourced" his Prime Ministers Questions (Independent 13/9/2015) what he was really doing was engaging in a citizens movement. He wasn't doing that which the origins of crowdsourcing would suggest and I am certain he would be shocked at the Neoliberalist roots for crowdsourcing.
So let's kill off crowdsourcing as a term of use in the humanities scholarship - let'sSimon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824684717322673022.post-57527691847454733792015-08-06T18:18:00.003+01:002015-08-06T18:20:55.174+01:00Transforming our World: The 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development
The Member States of the United Nations have agreed the final version of the post-2015 Development Agenda – now known as 2030 Agenda.
The new 2030 Agenda is a framework of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a total of 169 Targets spanning economic, environmental and social development. They lay out a plan for all countries to actively engage in making our world better for its people Simon Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888547719663675809noreply@blogger.com0