The DEER

Distributed European

Electronic Resource

Dr Suzanne Keene

University College London

www.suzannekeene.info

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Acknowledgements to …

Francesca Monti Alice Grant Members of E-Culture Net,

especially Kim Veltman

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DEER vision

Access toall European networked cultural content

Provide users with a view of and access to our rich and varied cultural landscapes, in a multilingual and multicultural information environment

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Why a DEER? Culture is the core of European identity

and identities ICT Europe’s second most important

economic sector(is tourism the first??)

ICT + cultural material = a key means of enhancing European competitiveness

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DEER principles– Overarching - ultimately, Europe’s digital cultural memory

– Unity and diversity - enjoying Europe’s diverse cultures

– Multilingual - as far as practicable

– Communication, creativity and joint working - forum for participation and collaborative research

– Visionary and forward looking - using advanced technologies

– Permanent - through principles of digital preservation

– Multinational - distributed repositories, national committees

– Interoperable - an environment for a distributed resource

– Bring users to the foreground - market + user research

– Education and learning - for higher education and for all

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The DEER audience

Higher education & research The general public, lifelong

learners Public sector organisations Commercial companies

seeking content Tourist industry

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The DEER components

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DEER components

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Content indistributedrepositories

Content indistributedrepositories

Virtual AgoráVirtual Agorá

VirtualReference

Room

VirtualReference

Room

Infrastructure: the cultural GRID?

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The Virtual Reference Room The portals for the DEER Personalisation and collaboration Search & discovery tools Meta resources:

• Cultural ontologies• Cross referenced bibliographical material• Subject gateways• Discovery tools• Multilingual tools

Web service software for combining resources from different sources, eg the DACO

The Virtual Agorá

Forum for learning + teaching

Software toolsTailored content

Virtual ForumBulletin boards

Contacts directoryTranslating tools

On-line evaluationUser input

Augmented real Agorá

Events noticeboardActual events

Remote participation

Online publication

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The content of the DEER Initial target users: higher

education, research Primary sources: digitised

documents, books Research data sets 3D, VR representations Software tools: learning &

teaching

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The DEER system

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The DEER system A very large distributed knowledge

management system Requires the entire chain of cultural

content management, from creation to delivery to end users

A cultural GRID

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Technical requirements High bandwidth communications

infrastructure Web services & middleware for

cultural content management Distributed information repositories

(national) Excellent user friendly portal(s) for

multilingual, multicultural access Technologies for interactive

working: Agorá etc.

Historical content

Knowledge system architecture

Information repositories

VR content + tools

Tools for access + delivery

Distribution + exploitation

Users, channels, devices

Historical content

Knowledge system architecture

Information repositories

VR content + tools

Tools for access + delivery

Distribution + exploitation

Users, channels, devices

Historical content

Knowledge system architecture

Information repositories

VR content + tools

Tools for access + delivery

Distribution + exploitation

Users, channels, devices

Historical content

Knowledge system architecture

Information repositories

VR content + tools

Tools for access + delivery

Distribution + exploitation

Users, channels, devices

Historical content

Knowledge system architecture

Information repositories

VR content + tools

Tools for access + delivery

Distribution + exploitation

Users, channels, devices

Archival store preservationVersions: Original, Preservation,

Dissemination, Metadata store

User access storeMetadata + ontology databases

Content files for delivery to users

Content providers

Metadata engine

Application

Metadata engine

Presentation+ delivery

DiscoveryDelivery

Userrequest

Tools for user input

Offsitestorage

Backup

Data repositories

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Standards Communication and network Authentication Identification Open source software Browser software Content Metadata Terminology

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Operating the DEER

Organisational modelsCentral, top down(JISC)

Distributed consortium(CULTIVATE)

secretariat

National/specialistmatrix(ICOM)

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Exec.Council

Specialist committees

Nationalcommittees

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Funding the DEERFour financing models explored: Designated central funding

– eg, GRID programme: over >1 FP “Serendipitous” project funding by bids

– eg, 6th FP: broad priorities Membership subscription

– eg, ICOM Commercial not-for-profit

– eg, AMICO, SCRAN

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Financing the DEER

% Deer funding

requirement

Time

Central funding

Other funding sources

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Conclusions

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Conclusions The DEER: not just an option, it’s

becoming a necessity A cultural GRID for Europe A practical possibility Provide the organisational framework

to consolidate the benefits of previous and present investment in cultural IST

Wildflowermeadow …

… to productivefruit orchard

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Thank you!

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