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Roger Greenhalgh OpenFields.org.ukHarper Adams University College April 2010
http://ofi.openfields.org.uk/1.10040575
Archives, galleries, knowledge-bases, intranets, libraries, museums, stores, repositories... What are we trying to achieve with these virtual spaces?
What can we learn about the future sustainability of digital repositories from the models evolved by physical repositories?
Are there some potential digital exemplars to monitor?
The nature of web applications can mean that, (with suitably developed architecture) a digital repository can serve more than one master.
How might digital repositories make this pragmatic step?
““A space for all reasons...”A space for all reasons...”
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Widening participation
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Curiosity - DiscoveryCuriosity - Discovery
Digital Midlands Projects :
Digital Handsworth
Digital Midlands
Exploring the Potteries
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Revolutionary Players
Secret Shropshire
Staffordshire Pasttrack
Windows on Warwickshire
Digital Midlands Projects :
Digital Handsworth
Digital Midlands
Exploring the Potteries
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Revolutionary Players
Secret Shropshire
Staffordshire Pasttrack
Windows on Warwickshire
Sense of place - CommunitySense of place - Community
Digital Midlands Projects :
Digital Handsworth
Digital Midlands
Exploring the Potteries
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Revolutionary Players
Secret Shropshire
Staffordshire Pasttrack
Windows on Warwickshire
Project information:Digital Ladywood is a Local History Project which aims to record the life and times of people living on the five estates making up Attwood Green, and also the wider area of Ladywood. As well as this website there will also be a series of displays in community areas across the estates.
The project aims to:• Support schools with their local history curriculum• Provide opportunities for learning by involving local people and children in the creation of the website, and research about their local area• Encourage and support oral tradition focusing on the development of communication, interviewing, speaking and listening skills• Provide historical background for new residents• Help foster community spirit, generate pride and a sense of belonging in the area
Project information:Digital Ladywood is a Local History Project which aims to record the life and times of people living on the five estates making up Attwood Green, and also the wider area of Ladywood. As well as this website there will also be a series of displays in community areas across the estates.
The project aims to:• Support schools with their local history curriculum• Provide opportunities for learning by involving local people and children in the creation of the website, and research about their local area• Encourage and support oral tradition focusing on the development of communication, interviewing, speaking and listening skills• Provide historical background for new residents• Help foster community spirit, generate pride and a sense of belonging in the area
Participation - DoingParticipation - Doing
Not necessarily elitist showcasesNot necessarily elitist showcases
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Living social spacesLiving social spaces
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Land-based sector provision...Land-based sector provision...Digitisation of Countryside Images - 13,000 glass negatives of the
Farmers Weekly / Farmer and Stockbreeder collections from 1920-1965MERL, University of Reading
LTSN Bioscience ImageBank - shared image resource for life, food and agricultural sciences - freely available images, copyright cleared for educational useUniversity of Leeds / HE Academy - Centre for Bioscience
Vision of Britain Through Time : e-access to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changedUniversity of Portsmouth
Lincolnshire Film Archive - film showing life and work in the countyUniversity of East Anglia
Moving History - an online guide to the UK's public sector moving image archives – includes Rural Life.Birkbeck College / University of Brighton / British Film Institute / Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design / University of Exeter / University of Lincoln / Royal College of Art / University of Ulster
DIGIMAP collections (4 items: Monitoring of vegetation change across complex landscapes ; National Fox Survey ; Agricultural Changes in East Sussex from 1935-1947 ; The diet of pine martens in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs)EDINA
DIGIMAP collections (4 items: Monitoring of vegetation change across complex landscapes ; National Fox Survey ; Agricultural Changes in East Sussex from 1935-1947) ; The diet of pine martens in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs)EDINA
Agricultural Census - Data from government departments for recognised geographies, expressed as grid square estimatesEDINA
Land Life and Leisure - a bibliographic database of land-based literature both practical and scholarlyEDINA + Aberystwyth / Harper Adams / RAC
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Supply Supply
& demand & demand
Rural knowledge landscapeRural knowledge landscape
A resource for the broader community
Each organisation’s documents can be browsed
Search dialog on each page
What’s within?A search for barley...
Most relevant ‘technical notes’ presented first...
...followed by the most relevant research papers...
...and open learning materials
Practitioner focused materials...Practitioner focused materials...
...easily discovered......easily discovered...
Sometimes through serendipitySometimes through serendipity
Open Access model not strong in Journals servicing ‘Food, Farming, Environment’
OpenFields available to 25 Landbased Colleges and Lantra SSC as a repository for technical and Open Learning materials. Small subscription proposed. Landex College Consortium approval, but each College needs funds to collate and assure materials .
Edina-hosted LLL index being unsupported by Aberystwyth from summer 2010. Some distress among ALLCU/Landex Librarians
IntuteAgriculture, Food , ForestryPotential for cross-searchingOur DOI/OFI system helpful
BBRSC support PubMedCentral as part of funder’s group led by Wellcome. Proposal put to them to support OpenFields research collection in similar way, with Defra. NERC NORA. Well-run e-prints research
papers repository for their 4 Research Institutes.. and others? SWORD potential?
Levy Companies have agreed to aggregate 100s of technical materials into OpenFields. Strong support from Chief Scientist, Prof Ian Crute
Trade press wary because of perceived competition as a knowledge service
Scottish Agricultural College paid by Scottish Govt to write Technical Notes. Good source, but not collaborative. ADAS now private. OpenFields aimed at the ‘ADAS Gap’. People understand…
PLCs: Good technical notes with a commercial bias. We are considering offering to host them for a fee, with items open to user comments
Biosciences KTNObvious partner, TSB funded, but ‘early days’..?
Public Sector:DEFRA website hosts 1000s technical notes and research papers, but is un-navigable Business Link. Some interest.Environment Agency, HSE, Natural England , Forestry Commission supportive.
Lifelong Learning NetworksVetNet and ReedNet. Potential for open-access sharing of course materials
Research repositoriesNewcastle ReadingWarwick HRI?NottinghamWelsh Repositories Network
Professional journals with subscription model. RASE Journal will be in OpenFields in the next month, with 1 year embargo
OpenFields well suited to preserving project outputs on a case-by-case basis
Knowledge community ‘marketplace’Knowledge community ‘marketplace’
A foundation for communities of practice?A foundation for communities of practice?
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Who has expertiseWho has expertise? ? Who can contribute?Who can contribute? Who Who makes makes Scholarly WorksScholarly Works? ?
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What’s over the horizon?What’s over the horizon?
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