[Centre] draft
Sally-Jane Norman
S.J.Norman at sussex.ac.uk
Thu Sep 1 22:13:36 CEST 2011
ps - referenced e-science paper strictly internal/ confidential please as it's a working document at present
best
sj
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From: Sally-Jane Norman
Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2011 9:11 p.m.
To: Group working in the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy
Cc: Caroline Bassett; Kirk Woolford; Ed Steinmueller
Subject: RE: [Centre] draft
Hi Volker
Appended version features comments transcribed for Caro Bassett (cc'd), and updated profiles for Sussex team minus that for Ed Steinmueller still awaited. For some reason I can't get tracked modifs to feature - apart from tracked comments, these concern Sussex bio data. Let me know if you want me to integrate this some other way.
If for Australia Ned's a good bet (we get an Australian/ Chinese double whammie this way as he's a West Australia based Sinophile with prof status at Ningbo), let me know and I'll try to make contact as a fellow antipodean... unless he's in Siberia or somewhere as is his wont...
Re sustainable funding, why don't we make a vibrant case for policy work? The Centre should become an international reference given its ambitions, thus capable of conducting unique and possibly major policy consultancy works for national and international bodies. Heck, why not. Brits still have a Demos hang-up. Let's use it.
In addition to policy, it should also be able to carry out major advisory works and contribute expertise to bodies building up archival resources with a view to public use (e.g. declared south east partner The Keep - www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/localandfamilyhistory/esro/thekeep/)
Volker your 4th point might usefully be linked with the UK e-science agenda - might say for example that:
The proposed consortium's strong links with the UK e-science community, and notably its contributions to ongoing efforts to enhance the UK Research Computing Ecosystem, will be further developed to ensure that copyright implications of distributed and high performance platforms are integral to the Centre's reflection and feature incisively and usefully in its outputs (etc etc etc). (see http://www.allhands.org.uk/)
Maybe our Southampton Innovation Centre colleagues also have links to this and/ or similar initiatives worth quoting - I'm tuned via Peter Coveney et al at UCL - http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/_escienvoy/files/3/31/ResearchcomputingV44.pdf
best
sj
Sally Jane Norman
Professor of Performance Technologies
Director, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Silverstone 310
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RG
United Kingdom
www.sussex.ac.uk/acca/
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From: p2p-centre-bounces at lists.ourproject.org [p2p-centre-bounces at lists.ourproject.org] on behalf of Volker Grassmuck [vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de]
Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2011 8:00 p.m.
To: Group working in the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy
Subject: Re: [Centre] draft
Dear all,
some more edits in the version below. I would like to highlight two issues:
* Funding:
- Since the £5 million is an 80% funding, we will have to come up with an additional £1.25 million. We have two suggestions: Google, OSI and UoSouthampton. The instructions say: "In order to demonstrate the institutional commitment to the project the lead institution will be expected to provide a level of support for the Centre...” Is such a commitment (personnel, space, equipment) feasible, and if so would it add up to £1.25 million? I have not approached Google or OSI. Should I try? Does anyone have good contacts with them? The only personal contact I have is with Vera Franz at OSI. I could contact someone at Google Germany, but that might not work for a project in the UK.
- As for sustained funding after the four-year period, the only suggestions we have so far is contract research and FP7/8 calls.
I think this should be a top priority for the remaining days. I’m afraid if we don’t come up with something plausible our EoI might be out before they even look at the rest of it. ("There is an expectation that the Centre will leverage significant additional income or support from partners and other sources, both during and after the award period...”)
* IPRs vs. copyright. The instructions say: "3. Key aims of the Centre ... It should aim to encompass research into copyright, business models, creative industries and digital technologies,” and emphasizes again that these are the "4 critical aspects.” Since there is no mention of patents, trade marks or IPRs in general, I think we should replace „IPRs” with „copyright” in most if not all places.
Also, we don’t say much on the 4th point yet. The instructions mention:
"Research the business potential of new digital technologies, such as new forms of high-‐speed internet connectivity, smart phone technologies or cloud computing systems, and their relationship to copyright” and
"Include the use of novel digital technologies and their development in a real world context, to ensure challenges arising from disruptive digital technology are considered and copyright issue consideration can be embedded in underpinning Digital Economy research;”
Best,
Volker
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