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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Tools for the Trade?Supporting Multidisciplinary Research
Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN
JCIE / JCSR Awayday
12th December, 2002
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Research – so what is new?
• Focus: data intensive• Skills (IT+statistics+domain)• Disciplines e.g. Astro-informatics• Highly distributed• Collaborative• Virtual communities• Knowledge-rich infrastructures• More demanding consumers
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
New resources …….
• Physical and remote– Telescope, scanner, computer cycles
• Informational/bibliographic– Articles, theses, eprints, maps, music scores, scripts,
newspapers, programs
• Primary/original data – Numeric, genomic, 2/3D molecular structures, satellite
images, electron micrographs, wave spectra, CAD, code, compositions, VR
• Human discourse– Chat, discussion fora, email, virtual meetings, minutes,
workshops, annotations, pers. comm.
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….. used in new ways
• Spatial change– Federation, aggregation, dis-aggregation, replication,
manipulation, linking, annotation, editing/versioning, transformation
• Knowledge extraction– Analysis (textual, musical, statistical, mathematical, visual,
chemical, gene……)– Mining (text, data, structures……)– Modelling (economic, mathematical, biological..)– Presentation (visualisation, rendering….)
• Distributed collaborative discourse– Discuss, criticise, evaluate, support, agree, disagree, reject…
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
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We need new tools:
• “Off-the-shelf” • Integrated• Personalised• Usable• Collaborative• Generic• Intelligent• Extensible
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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www.ukoln.ac.uk
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New challenges (1)
• How can we discover resources across multiple and diverse knowledge environments?
• How can we implement richer content-based query modes?
• How can we automate the metadata creation process further?
• How can we manage the semantic differences between highly specialised domain vocabularies?
• How can we make visualisation tools as easy to use and as pervasive as Google?
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New challenges (2)
• How can we link original data to derived data and information?
• How can we facilitate knowledge transfer between research and learning & teaching processes?
• How can we manage the complexity of these systems?
• How can we maximise efficiency of these systems?• How can we overcome the socio-economic and
cultural barriers?
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What are the next steps for JCIE / JCSR?