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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN: providing support to the RSCs.
Dr Liz Lyon, Director
RSC Managers Meeting
3rd June, 2003
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Overview
• What are we?– About UKOLN
• What can we do for you?– Share our portals expertise– Promote DL/VLE integration of resources– Provide Web best practice guidance– Offer events management service
• Questions and discussion
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
About UKOLN (1)
“a centre of expertise in digital information management”
JISC Development Service
“a strategic think-tank for the JISC”
……and Resource – regional agenda
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
About UKOLN (2)• 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 (through Common Information
Environment work)– International digital library research community
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
About UKOLN (3)• University of Bath• 30 staff• Mix of technical support and development, advisory and
research activities– JISC Information Environment technical support and development, IE
Service Registry– Dublin Core metadata standards, – Open Archives Forum, e-prints-UK, – Collection level descriptions – e-Science / Grid joint activities e.g. Metadata schema registries and
ontologies workshop– Digital Preservation Coalition support, web archiving study– e-journals (Ariadne & Cultivate-Interactive)
• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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.
• Overview of institutional portal functionality • Survey >600 responses + f2f consultation• Stakeholder requirements • Review of metadata standards for portal users
e.g. eduPerson, IMS LIP• uPortal guide to follow shortly
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Ariadne Issue 33, 2003
Portals PORTALS Everywhere
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Ariadne Issue 35, 2003
Syndicated content….
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Subject Portals Project
• www.portal.ac.uk/spp/ • JISC 5/99 project • Searching across JISC and non-JISC
content• Modular portlet approach• Aggregated newsfeed/conference channels• Technical presentations 2003
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Ariadne Issue 35, 2003
Access management….
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
NOF portal – EnrichUK
• National launch March 12th
• NOF-digi Programme
• UKOLN Skills set– Technical (database technology, server side
technology)– Metadata / semantics
• Pete Dowdell
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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
• Embedding RDN services into VLEs http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/rdnvle/
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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 extract their own records• Testing in April
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
VLE / Digital Library integration
• Integrating information resources into VLEs • Bringing together the JISC IE architecture and IMS
Digital Repositories Interoperability• JISC IE Architecture Study http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-
systems/jisc-ie/arch/dner-arch.html
• Common standards SOAP, OAI, OpenURLs• Content standards DC (IE) and IMS metadata (DRI)• Working with CETIS• Provide IE support to JISC Development team
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Provide Web best practice guidance (1)
• 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
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Ariadne Issue 35, 2003
A standards-based culture….
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Provide Web best practice guidance (2)
• Workshops for RSCs– Web site benchmarking (RSC Eastern and
RSC South-west)
• Future topics– Accessibility and accessibility policies (with
TechDis)– Quality Assurance for Web sites– Relevance of Web Services for the FE
community
• What would you like??
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Provide Web best practice guidance (3)
• Annual Institutional Web Management Workshop “Supporting our Users”
• University of Kent 11-13th June • Themes
– e-Learning– User issues– Information management– Resourcing issues
• >170 delegates• Programme now available
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Events management
• International / national conferences e.g. JISC/CNI
• Workshops e.g. Z39.50
• Sara Hassen, Events Manager
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Questions…….
“What else can we do to help you?”
“What further support do you need?”
“Where are the gaps?”
………..discussion
