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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

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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

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

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Slides will be available at :

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