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WELCOME TO THE DIGIPEDIA FAQ PAGE
If you don't find the information that you are looking for here, please use the contact button on the Home Page to raise your question. This page will continue to grow in response as new questions arrive.
Frequently asked questions
What is special about Digipedia?
Just as the Strategic Content Alliance has broken new ground in bringing together in collaboration major UK public sector content providers, so Digipedia is the first time a single point of reference has been developed to signpost and help anyone involved in the digital content life cycle. Nothing similar exists in the UK and so far no trace of nothing of similar scope elsewhere. We believe that this mission to create a one-stop-shop pulling together the work of many different organisations is a first.
Why has the Strategic Content Alliance commissioned Digipedia?
An important outcome of the current work programme is the creation of a framework that will enable both the synthesis of the product of the commissioned projects and integration of that material into other high quality resources that, if brought together can provide both help and signposting in one place on all aspects of the digital content life cycle. Digipedia will be the knowledge base and the public face of the common policy framework for digital content across the domains of lifelong learning and teaching, research and cultural heritage.
What does Digipedia do and how does it do it?
Digipedia has been designed to bring together in one place authoritative resources (standards, policies, case studies, good practice and links to expertise) on all aspects of the digital content life cycle. Tried and tested Wiki technology enabling rapid system development also offers good options for cost-effective sustainability and the ability to build and sustain communities of interest. Wiki technology also makes simple the interconnection of related pages, updating of information and the management of links to external resources. The result is a service that is both gazetteer of topics and terms and also the means to create routes through the knowledge base relevant to particular needs. This 'route planning' function is a key component in the creation of the common policy framework since it will support the needs of those involved with the digital content life cycle and those who wish to learn how best to become involved. Digipedia supports these routes using innovative knowledge maps that link seamlessly into the knowledge base along with route guides embedded directly as Wiki pages.
Who is Digipedia for?
In the longer term Digipedia can grow to meet the needs of many different audiences, but initially the prototype focuses on two groups: policy makers and practitioners. These two groups frequently need different resources - policy documents, case studies and background guides for the policy maker, while the practitioner is likely to need more detail on technical issues, standards, audiences research and links to communities of interest. The intention of Digipedia is all help the user to select the resources that best fit their need.
Can you help?
Digipedia is a beta version designed to support extensive testing of its functionality and the explore how Web 2.0 and semantic technologies can be developed further to support the creation of communities of interest, the automatic linking of resources within the knowledge base and how APIs could make it possible for Digipedia resources to be delivered into other services. The Strategic Content Alliance expects to conduct further peer review and focus groups work during 2009 all all feedback through the contact button on the Home Page will be very welcome.
Who has been involved in the development work?
Digipedia has been developed by a consortium led by Chris Batt Consulting Ltd. The consortium includes digitisation experts Susi Woodhouse and Fiona O'Brien, journalist Michelle Pauli, knowledge mapping company FirstAdapt Ltd and web developers OrangeLeaf Ltd.
