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2 November 2010 DLF, Fall Forum, Palo Alto

Rachel Bruce, Innovation Director, Digital Infrastructure, JISC

Agile resources on the open web ….a global digital library

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What JISC is …

Our direction and approach to access and re-use of resources to underpin education and research

DLF Fall Forum 2 November, 2010

JISC

Easy and widespread access to information and resources, anytime, anywhere; a vision with technology and information management at the heart of research and education.

Funded by seven public funding organisations, plus some charges for services

Governed by representatives from the education sector not by government

JISC-fundedcontent providers

institutionalcontent providers

externalcontent providers

brokers aggregators indexes catalogues

institutionalportals

media-specificportals

learning managementsystems

subjectportals

end-userdesktop/browser pr

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tatio

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fusion

prov

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OpenURLresolvers

shared infrastructure

authentication/authorisation

(Shibboleth/SAML)JISC IE service registry

institutional preferencesservices

terminology services

user preferences services

resolvers

metadata schema registries

Information Environment, Andy Powell, UKOLN, 2003

JISC-fundedcontent providers

institutionalcontent providers

externalcontent providers

brokers aggregators indexes catalogues

institutionalportals

media-specificportals

learning managementsystems

subjectportals

end-userdesktop/browser pr

esen

tatio

n

fusion

prov

isio

n

OpenURLresolvers

shared infrastructure

authentication/authorisation (Athens/SAML)JISC IE service registry

institutional preferencesservices

terminology services

user preferences services

resolvers

metadata schema registries

User interaction

Disclosure

Open Access

Data

Web 2.0

Opportunities and approaches ….

Opening the fortress

Working at web scale

Digging deep

Embracing user generated content

Harnessing implicit intentions

Approaching real time

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Network level -leveraging scale. Integrated into the Web and future global communication structures. Interoperable and flexible integrated into local, national and global provision. Reduce duplication of effort and be sustainable Robust and scalable. Capable of supporting a comprehensive (format) inclusive (content)

coverage. Coherent, “compelling”, useable. Simple to adopt (shouldn’t confuse with applications) Meet the requirements of key user groups. Innovative and open to change and adaptation. Achievable.

Principles for infrastructure

Content Resources and Storage

Middleware

Middleware

Access and user facing services & tools

Open metadata and linking datasets

CurationLearning Research

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Infrastructure for library, museum and archive resources

Full list of members at: http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/scope-and-terms-of-reference/

Vision

UK students and researchers will have easy, flexible access to content and services through a collaborative, aggregated and integrated resource discovery and delivery framework which is comprehensive, open and sustainable

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Graphics courtesy of the JISC web2practice project: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/JISC-web2practice/index.html

Open Metadata

Future State….

Integrated and seamless access to the rich resource collections held in libraries, museums and archives in UK HEIs

Creation of a thorough  and open aggregated layer - designed to work with all major search engines - of data about the resource collections

Provision of a diverse range of innovative and personalised resource discovery services to students, teachers and researchers

Avoidance of duplication of effort and increased efficiency

Existing resource discovery services encouraged to develop and innovate

Data will be available to commercial organisations to develop services as well

Data and functionality will need to be diffused to other software and websites that are used by students, teachers and researchers

“Aggregation of supply and demand”

“Making our data work hard, engagement and co-creation”

The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After, Lorcan Dempseyhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/dempsey/

Digital New Zealand

CERN Open Book

CatalogueEuropeana

Culture 24

Open Education Resources

Repositories UK

COPAC, Archives Hub,

Suncat

Aggregation Ecosystem

Registry of Datasets

A means not a destination

Web of aggregated data

Facilitate access & use

Linked Data

LOCAH Project, Linked Open Copac Archives Hub.

CHALICE, Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities.

OPEN Bibliography, description, authorities etc.

OPEN Citation, a public RDF triplestore for biomedical literature citations.

CUL, Cambridge University Library widgets and open catalogue.

LinkedBrainz, MusicBrainz, community music metadatabase.

LUCERO, Linking University Content for Education and Research Online, Open University.

BBC

Combines clips with

other sources of information

from around the web & within

the BBC.

URI for every species &

habitat to aggregate around

that link.

‘The more we track and aggregate, the more our suggestions will be personalised.’

Web Scale - Aggregation - Personalisation

Play me music

I will like

‘… and the more we track, the better we can adapt our service without your intervention.’

My activity patternsMy GPS dataMy Calendar

‘… we’ll even learn to recommend content

by taking account of your location,

habits & moodsand by

making comparisons’

Open Educational Resources

Two phases of the programme

1) 7 Institutional, 14 Subject and 9 Individual

2) Release, Use and Discover

– Integrity ------------------- reusability

– Into the wild ------------- community based

– Minimal metadata to ensure contribution – rich metadata to meet the needs of users.

– Hosting – repositories, learning management systems, third party web sites e.g. Flickr, community focused web site.

Thank you to David Kay for personalisation slides, taken from the Survive or Thrive workshop held earlier in the year Manchester.