joining it all up: information management in a virtual world kate fernie [email protected] heirnet
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HEIRNET
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/HEIRNET/
Historic Environment Information Resources Network
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What is an HEIR anyway?
Problems for users:
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Where do you begin?
• Lots of separate resources
• Analogue & digital• Variable promotion
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirnet/HEIRNET
Joining it all up: first steps
Joining it all up: next steps
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirport/
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CANMORE SCRAN
ADS
Portable Antiquities
Joined up doing = interoperability
HEIRNET
PAS
Canmore
ADS
SCRAN
Content
Happy User
HEIRPORT
Single access point
Network services
Aggregate content
Standards…
Interoperability = Standards
• Z39.50, Dublin Core, Bath profile, CIMI profile, XML etc.
• Semantics
• Agreement between partners
How are we doing it?
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http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirport/about.html
How difficult it is?
• Technology is tried & tested
• Standards exist
• Becoming easier to implement
• The content is there
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But…
Whose portal is it anyway?
Interoperability = people
• Decision makers• Techies• Curators• Users
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Decision makers
• Strategy
• Bid for resources
• Staff training & development
• Image
• Agree to collaborate
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The techies
The curators
• Quality assure resources
• Develop vocabularies
• Mediate content
• Support users
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Logs suggest good take up
• The user paradox
• Learning & teaching
• What is the market?
Users
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Developments
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• Strategic development
• Agreements between sectors
• Language
• Finding resources
Issues
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