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UKOLN Update on Selected Activities

Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

MLA Digital Services Meeting, London, July 2008

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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

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Slides will be available at :

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html