Spoken Word Services collaborate with teaching staff from a wide range of academic institutions in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. At Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) we work with colleagues in Economics, History, Social Work, Journalism, Biological & Biomedical Sciences and Environmental Management and Planning. We also work with and share learning resources with the GCU led JISC funded ReSET project. In addition to GCU, we share audio and other resources with the University of Edinburgh - Law School; University of Strathclyde - The Learning Exchange, formerly known as Stor Curam; University of Glasgow - Centre for the History of Medicine; University of Bologna - CILTA; Columbia University - Department of Anthropology; and Northwestern University - Department of History. Several of our teaching collaborators are using Teaching Weblogs to interact with their students.

Spoken Word Services is an associate partner in 3 mini-projects funded through the UK Higher Education Academy subject networks: Economics, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism and Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP). More information about these projects can be found in the Case Studies section of our web site.

We are also involved in a cross sectoral collaboration to deliver digital audio resources with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and to work with our own GCU Research Collections Archive to deliver and contribute to their series of ‘expert witness seminars’.

If you are interested in working in collaboration with Spoken Word Services, please contact us - we would be delighted to hear from you.

Further Collaborations

Spoken Word Services has strong foundations as a project funded as part of the JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme (DLIC). The other 3 projects in this programme are DART: Digital Anthropological Resources for Teaching, a collaboration between London School of Economics (LSE) and Columbia University in the discipline of Anthropology; DIDET – a partnership between the University of Strathclyde and Stanford University working in the design engineering discipline; and DialogPlus – a partnership between the University of Southampton, the University of Leeds, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, working in the Geography discipline. We are currently pursuing opportunities for joint dissemination activities with our DLIC colleagues.

In collaboration with EDINA, University of Edinburgh (lead partner); E-Services, University of Hull; and St Helens College, Spoken Word Services is a demonstrator partner in the JISC funded Visual and Sound Materials Portal Scoping Study and Demonstrator Project. This study will investigate through initial scoping activity and the construction of a demonstrator, the value and feasibility of a JISC-designated national portal for both time-based media and image collections. As part of the project we will enable the testing of a Java portlet demonstration gateway to Spoken Word resources (e.g. using JSR 168 and JSR 170 standards).

Spoken Word Services is an associate partner in the JISC funded project Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories, with the University of Dundee (lead partner), the University of Strathclyde and Intrallect. We currently use IntraLibrary from Intrallect to enable the development of the dissemination of our tools and content using UK LOM core metadata . This is also an exciting strategy for encouraging new ways of using teaching materials within GCU.

In collaboration with our Spoken Word partners at Northwestern University we are actively involved in the FEDORA user community. FEDORA is an open-source digital object repository funded by the Mellon Foundation and primarily developed by Cornell University and the University of Virginia. It provides a flexible and standardized object-oriented framework for building and maintaining and accessing collections of digital objects.

Spoken Word Services are establishing collaborations to investigate authentication and authorisation using Shibboleth: our contacts with existing Shibboleth users include: University of Edinburgh (SDSS - EDINA), London School of Economics (LSE) and Columbia University.

In collaboration with our Spoken Word partners at Northwestern University and Michigan State University we are investigating the use of Sakai. Sakai is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for Higher Education. We will ensure that any audio annotation tools produced as part of Spoken Word are Sakai compliant.