JISC Guide: Making your digital collections easier to discover

Making your digital collections easier to discover

Developing techniques to increase reach of your digital collections, optimise them for discovery and evaluate their usage and impact. 

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Contains the following sub sections: 

• Make Google searches work for you
  Using social media to promote your digital collections
• Use aggregators to boost your collection
• Make your collection available for learning and teaching
• Using popular websites to reach broader audiences
• Improve the user experience of your digital collection
• Ensuring your digital collections reach academic researchers
• Create champions for your digital collections
• Ensure your digital collections integrate with your organisation’s systems

How to engineer the unexpected

From ABC-RN's Future Tense program of 20 October 2015:

Serendipity, generally thought of as accidental good fortune, has long been a staple of popular science. The notion of fortuitous discovery still has strong appeal, but could it encourage innovation? Antony Funnell meets researchers who not only believe in serendipity, but are actively trying to engineer it.

"...search has become so effective over the past decade that it has completely overshadowed the value of browsing and exploring: 'I think there really is a bias towards supporting search,' he says, 'and it has meant that supporting serendipity when finding information has been relatively neglected.'"

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/creating-innovation-through-serendipity/6868960