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Emergent technologies & digitisation: the institutional impact.

Liz Lyon & Kevin Edge

VC’s Retreat, October 2005

www.bath.ac.uk

a centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

                                                             

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Communications today• Always “on”• Ubiquitous and

pervasive• Multi-modal• Parallel• Multiple channels • Real-time• Personalised • Overload….

                                                             

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Collaborative communication technologies• Email discussion lists

• Instant Messaging• Wiki

• Forum software• Access Grid• Teleconference• Video-conference• Voice over IP (VoIP) Internet Telephony• Blog• Podcasting

                                                             

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http://www.flickr.com/

+“folksonomies”

                                                             

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– Access Grid – Collaborative telematic art– Modify spaces for performers – Interplay: Hallucinations

                                                             

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Learning & Teaching workflows

Research & e-Science workflows

Aggregator services: national, commercial

Repositories : institutional, e-prints, subject, data, learning objects

Institutional presentation services: portals, Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses, modules

Harvestingmetadata

Data creation / capture / gathering: laboratory experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media

Resource discovery, linking, embedding

Deposit / self-archiving

Peer-reviewed publications: journals, conference proceedings

Publication

Validation

Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling

Resource discovery, linking, embedding

Deposit / self-archiving

Learning object creation, re-use

Searching , harvesting, embedding

Quality assurance bodies

Validation

Presentation services: subject, media-specific, data, commercial portals

Resource discovery, linking, embedding

The scholarly knowledge cycle.

Liz Lyon, Ariadne, July 2003.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenseAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0

© Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath), 2005

                                                             

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Disciplinary eprint repositories

                                                             

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Institutional repositories: a view in 2005

• Country update & trends D-Lib Magazine Sept 2005– Germany 103, UK 31, Sweden 25– Policy: Germany YES, UK RCUK draft– National programmes: UK, Germany, Australia, Sweden,

Netherlands YES

• 14 institutions have a Self-Archiving Policy and 4 (Southampton, Queensland Univ Tech, Zurich and CERN) have a mandate rather than a recommendation

• JISC £4M Digital Repository Programme started• 13 Oct JISC announces extra £80M capital funding over

2 years which includes further support for repositories

                                                             

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Referenced from an institutional repository

Cited by 3 other papers

                                                             

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eBank UK Project• Two key themes:

– Open access to datasets

– Linking research data to publications and to learning

• UKOLN, University of Southampton, University of Manchester• e-Science application ‘Combechem’ : Grid-enabled combinatorial

chemistry + National Crystallography Service• Resource Discovery Network / PSIgate physical sciences portal

                                                             

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1. Publish and cite data-sets

2. Link data to publications

                                                             

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eBank embedded in a science portal: link to student learning

                                                             

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Integration into chemistry research workflows

• R4L Repository for the Laboratory Project (JISC-funded) automated data capture from instrumentation, registration of results

• SMART TEA electronic Laboratory notebook + annotations

• Computational chemistry: SPECTRa Project (JISC-funded)• Research assessment (RAE) process?

                                                             

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For later use? In use now (and the future)?

Repositories and digital curation

Data preservation Data curation

Static Dynamic

“maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use”

Assuring long-term access to institutional digital assets: policies and practice?

UK Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk