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UKOLN is supported by:
Enhancing access to e-resources
Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
JISC RSC-SE Workshop
April 2004, Epsom.
www.bath.ac.uk
a centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
JISC RSC SE Workshop 2
Overview
• About UKOLN• What are the issues to consider?• Some exemplars, tools and good practice
guidelines– Portals: what is their role?– Embedding content: digital libraries and VLEs– Web-based developments: how to improve them
• Questions and discussion
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About UKOLN • Core funding from JISC & MLA Museums, Libraries & Archives
Council• Cross-sectoral remit• Our audiences include:
– HE / FE (L&T, research, admin)– Cultural heritage (museums, public libraries, archives)– National libraries (British Library)– e-government (Office of the e-Envoy)– NHS / health sector – International digital library research community
• University of Bath• 30 staff• Mix of technical support and development, advisory and research
activities• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
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What are the issues?• Finding (good) “stuff”
– Overload: the Google factor
– Relevance– Provenance – Quality-assurance
• Providing a full range of resources – User requirements– Selectivity– Cost-benefits– Licensing – Management information
• Accessing resources– Accessibility
– Legislation
• Re-using and sharing materials– Learning object, data,
article, image, program
– Interoperability using common standards and protocols
• Training & support• ???
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How can you help learners to access e-resources more easily?
• Portals: what is their role in presentation?• Embedding content:
– Seamless access to quality-assured content– Integrating digital libraries and VLEs
• Improving Web development activities– The importance of standards– Benchmarking principles
• Exemplars and tools from UKOLN projects and services
“a secure, single point of interaction with diverse information, business processes and people, personalised to a user’s need and responsibilities”
IBM, 2003.
“ an online service that provides a personalised, single point of access to resources that support the end-user in one or more tasks.”
JISC, 2003.
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JISC Fair PORTAL project• www.fair-portal.hull.ac.uk • Exploring a wide range of issues relating to institutional
portals, and the integration of national resources with institutional information and services.
• Deliverables:– Stakeholder requirements: what they want / don’t want– Survey >600 responses + f2f consultation – Literature review of outputs– Review of metadata standards for portal users e.g.
eduPerson, IMS LIP– Mapping services to organisational structures– Beginners guide to uPortal
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Ariadne Issue 35, 2003
Syndicated content….
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7 x RSS Recommendations
1. Adhere to the standards
2. Ensure persistence
3. Don’t use too many feeds < 6
4. Ensure currency
5. Each feed should have a purpose
6. Register your RSS feed
7. Create your textual content carefully
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Creating more RDN resources for FE
• RDN4FE project (JISC X4L funding)• Record enhancement tool• Backend feature to increase records tagged for FE
community• FE tagging
– FE notes– FE subject (LearnDirect scheme)– FE level
• FE colleges can – categorise and export their own records into RDN – import RDN records for local use
• Tested with 2 pilot colleges (Hammersmith & West London College & The Sheffield College)
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Embedding RDN resources summary
• Working with the RDN http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/workingwithrdn/
– RDN-include and RDNi-Lite– > 100 downloads – RDN-Channel-Lite– RDN SRW interface
• Embedding RDN services into VLEs – http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/rdnvle/
• RDN4FE project• [email protected]
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Providing Web good practice guidance
• UK Web Focus – Brian Kelly• Promotes standards and best practice to the
FE and HE communities• JISC W3C representative • Ariadne regular column
– Web testing tools– Web Watch survey of server software– HTML standards compliance– http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
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Ariadne Issue 38, 2004
Standards and compliance….
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Events and dissemination
• Institutional Web Management Workshop • 8th Annual event• 27-29 July 2004 • University of Birmingham• Theme: Transforming the Organisation• Open call for speakers and facilitators
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Benchmarking your Web site: is it up to scratch?• Workshops for RSCs (Eastern, South-west, Yorkshire &
Humberside)– Home pages: size, entry points– Validation, accessibility, broken links– Currency– Hits (popularity)– Statistics– Performance
• Tools e.g. Bobby, WAVE, Dr Watson, NetMechanic, WebSiteGarage, Nedstat, DejaVu
• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/rsc-eastern-2003/
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How you can help learners to access e-resources more easily
• Portalise: make the presentation of resources user-friendly and attractive
• Integrate: make access as seamless as possible through embedding tools
• Standardise: use open source tools to fine-tune Web development activities
• More info at www.ukoln.ac.uk
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Thank you.
Questions …….