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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
UKOLN Update on Selected Activities
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
MLA Digital Services Meeting, London, July 2008
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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
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
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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
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
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