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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
UKOLN Update on Selected Activities
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
MLA Digital Services Meeting, London, July 2008
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Content management
Institution-facing
Repository support
Using Web 2.0 tools to disseminate, discuss and build the community
DRIVER Project: Repository Infrastructure
Collaborating with European partners
UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recommendations for JISC
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships: scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher
• Strategy and Policy Report
• At least 10 Recommendations have been directly implemented by JISC or DCC
• International impact : Australian National Data Service, Max Planck Institute, Germany
• Lessons for MLAs?
Dealing with Data: One Year On
Context: Advocacy and promotingbest practice
Advocacy: workshops, resources, policy
Tools e.g. DRAMBORA for auditing a repository, DAFD Data Audit Framework for institutions
Infrastructure: Representation Information Registry Repository RRORI
Curation in MLAs?
UK Digital Curation Centre
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
Scoping a federated repository infrastructure
Automatic term assignment for discovery
Open data licence(s)
Data validation and QA
Quantitative criteria for appraisal
Collective intelligence and repository content & services
Lessons for MLAs?
Scaling Up Report7 Recommendations
May 2008: UKOLN, Univ. Southampton
New EU-funded project on digitisation: outputs will be useful for MLAs
Partners: national libraries including British Library, KB
UKOLN leading WP on training & skills
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Infrastructure development• Supporting the Information Environment• Promoting resource description, discovery, use and re-
use• Search technologies paper by Emma Tonkin (for
BECTa)• Entag Project: relationship between formal
classification systems and informal social tagging • Terminology registry scoping study• RDA, bibliographic standards best practice advice and
presentations (Ann Chapman)
Information Environment as a “hybrid environment
“negotiated environment”
Service-oriented vs resource-oriented
1. Deposit
2. Discovery
REST
HTTP URIs
OAI-ORE
Tangible demonstrator
Integrating content and services
Developer and service communities
Promoting description standards• Metadata Application Profiles
• New Co-ordination and Advocacy post just appointed
• Working with MIMAS, EDINA and TASI
• New JISC-funded Scoping Study to assess feasibility, validity and functionality of application profiles for research data
o Consider disciplinary requirements and data models
o Define and validate usage scenarios
o Scope a community uptake strategy
o Identify key stakeholders and any barriers to adoption.
Workshops For Regional Agencies• 1 Day workshop for MLA Yorkshire held in May • Workshop for MLA London scheduled for 14 July
• Other workshops postponed by MLA Regional Agencies (East of England, East Midlands, NW)
• Very positive feedback
• Discussion groups explored potential for Web 2.0, barriers & ways of addressing the barriers
Cultural Heritage area of UKOLN Web site • Currently being finalised
• Launch will provide access to 30+ briefing documents:
– Web 2.0– Blogs– Usability– Collection Description– Metadata– Other areas planned
including preservation
• Demonstrators, tools• Workshop info
30+ Briefing Papers
Many documents have been tested in UKOLN workshops for MLA
JISC PoWR Workshop • JISC PoWR workshop on 27 June:
– Oversubscribed!– Meeting of 2
communities– Understanding of need
for better communications
– Participants covered several case studies
– Blog
• Paper accepted for iPres 2008 conference
JISC PoWR is funded by JISC until Sept 2008. However materials will have CC licence and learning will be applied to MLA sector
JISC PoWR is funded by JISC until Sept 2008. However materials will have CC licence and learning will be applied to MLA sector
Keynotes: David Porteous, Generation Scotland, John Wilbanks, Science Commons, Martin Lewis, RLUK, Malcolm Atkinson, NeSC
Sessions: Sustainability, Privacy issues, collaborative approaches to data sharing
Call for Papers: submit now!
Developing the curation community
DCC Digital Curation 101• Digital Curation Centre• 6-10 October 2008• National eScience Centre,
Edinburgh• Intensive course• Lectures + hands-on• Target participants: bench
scientists, LIS professionals, computational scientists
• Survey questionnaire http://www.dcc.ac.uk/jisc/data_projects_questionnaire/
UK Web Focus Blog • Newly short-listed in the “Web 2.0 and Business” category of the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 08
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Slides will be available at :
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html