The Spoken Word Project

The Spoken Word [http://www.spokenword.ac.uk] is a multi-million dollar project based in the Saltire Centre [http://www.gcal.ac.uk/thesaltirecentre/] at Glasgow Caledonian University.

The project is part of the JISC/NSF funded Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_dlitc.aspx] and aims to provide tools appropriate for the digital classroom by exploiting the educational potential of the interests and activities of the social networking generation.

The project has a unique ‘legal deposit’ agreement [http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/using-audio-video/copyright/spoken-word-end-user-licence-agreement/] with the BBC that allows access to the BBC archives"for educational uses only". Television and radio programmes from the BBC archives and other sources are then made available in a digital form through the website to educational users across the UK, the EU, the USA and beyond. These digitised materials can be put to varying educational uses.

Inception

The foundations for the project were first laid down in the early 1990s when the eventual Principal Investigator of the project, David Donald, met Professor Jerry Goldman of Northwestern University through what was eventually incarnated as the Internet in the form that we are presently familiar with.

Partners

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