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Presentation made to CETIS Specialist Interest Group, at University of Bolton, 6 May 2008
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National Rural Knowledge Exchange
CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG6th May 2008
Roger GreenhalghInformation Manager (Information Architect ?! )
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1976 - joining things up
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What are Knowledge Exchanges .?• Centres of Excellence in work between Universities, Business and
the Community, funded by HEFCE since 2004 (but often based on earlier ‘3rd Mission/’Reach-out’/’Extension’ activities)
• There are 22 of them nationally, and they are normally Regional Consortia.
• Normally the ‘One stop shop’ or Gateway for Regional Universities to promote their consultancy activities, access to facilities, Graduate Employment Schemes, short course and conference programmes.
• Maximum funding is £500k per year, which translates to 7 or 8 staff per Exchange…
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The National Rural Knowledge Exchange
A 14 University Consortium:
NewcastleCentral LancashireHullKeeleBirminghamHarper AdamsWarwickWorcesterRoyal Agricultural CollegeWest of EnglandGloucesterWrittleReadingBournemouth
Initially planned to ‘broker’ (personally & via email) the following Knowledge Transfer services of the 14 Partners:
- Joint projects
- Consultancy
- Bespoke training courses
- Lab and field trial facilities
- Visiting speakers
- Graduates on short or long-term placements schemes, including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (aka Teaching Company Schemes)
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Practitioners
Universities & their Rural Departments ResearchInstitutes
PLCs
Are Research Priorities right?
Consultants
Individual clients
Clubs and Hubs
Land-based
Colleges
Academic Journals
Trade Press
Product sales
licensing
A Rural Knowledge Supply Chain..
???
Academic conferences
Open Days
Shows
Talks, meetings
Technical conferences Skills &
business training
Graduates
LANTRABus LinkRDAs FBAS,RDSEtc etc
Talking to friends
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The NRKE project aims to help by…
• Establishing a National Rural Portal, specifically aimed at:– Including all parts of the supply chain as members…– Universities, Colleges, Research Institutes, Practitioner Clubs, Sectoral
Organisations…– Allowing members to upload their current contact details, services and
‘events’ through on-line forms i.e. to be in control of their own information on the database-driven portal.
– Having the portal map driven so that locating events and organisations by area is straightforward:
a National Rural ‘What’s On’, and Who’s Who?’
– Providing search facilities by technical subject area (around 130 subjects).
• And by establishing a 'honeypot'…– Providing access to University and College work brokerage through the
Portal.
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Portal focusCurrent distribution of rural organisations in our ‘National Rural Directory’
National coverage
+
local and regional relevance and usability
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NationalRural Portal(2004-2005)
• Aimed be good at:
• Signposting and mapping
• Finding events
• Finding news
• Did not intended to :
• Publish technical articles
• Publish review articles
• Hold research findings…
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NationalRural Portal(2006 - to date)
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Listing and Searching
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Nationally and regionally…
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Organisationprofiles
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Relationships between organisations
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Discoverability• Content is
veryfindable byour audience…
• Usually more so than its source !!!
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Syndication
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The challenge is not the technology
• RSS is a bit like sex…
• you only really understand it when you've tried it out !
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JISC e-infrastructure
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www.nationalrural.org website
RSS / ATOM /XCRI / XML data feeds : inbound and outbound
bulk email updates
WorkflowBusiness logic layer
Presentation layer
Data access layer
Data storage layer
AD provider SQL provider
Active Directoryname service
SQL2005 database
Google map tiles
Access management
Serialisation: self-instantiation & self-actualisation of business objects Process scheduling
Content management & moderation Location geocoding
NationalRural web application
Land-based Libraryweb application
www.landbasedlibrary.org website
Accessions management & moderation
Full text indexing
MS Windows file storage
Video-streams
We
b-s
erv
ice
s &
AP
Is
Object inter-relationships
Micro-sites Sub-sites
Access & ownership
N-tiered infrastructure
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XML instantiation / serialisation
• The ultimate innormalisation…
• …by making stuff handle-able consistently
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Aggregation
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The challenge• Vision
• Boundaries
• Skills
• Perception
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