Transcript JISC Development Update integrating information environments

FAIR in context
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Christopher Pressler
Head of Arts Collections, University of London
FAIR Advisory Board Member
United Kingdom
Overview
• The UK Information Environment
• FAIR programme aims
• FAIR project clusters
• Institutional work – early lessons in the UK
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
The UK Information Environment
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The JISC Information Environment will provide a range of services, tools and
mechanisms for colleges and universities to exploit and share their own
resources and the resources of others.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/powell/
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Three main aspects to this provision:
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User Focus: Customised value-added services will simplify the user’s experience of
selected online resources – inclusion into local services
Technical Focus: Implementation of agreed standards and protocols – influencing
commerce, national providers and creators
Collaboration: Primarily in the UK – British Library, NHS, Higher & Further Education,
Museums and Public Libraries, E-Science Core Programme
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The IE is an essential interpreter of WWW and GRID technologies to the UK
education sectors.
Work sits alongside the developing UK Common Information Environment
– JISC, The British Library, e-science Core, UKOLN, Resource, NHS
Making technology meaningful demands content
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
THE IE - Building Meaningful Content
• Portals - Informing and developing the use
• Digital Library Research – international and classroom use NSF
• X4L – repurposing content for learning
• Learning and Teaching – supporting through digital resources
• Infrastructure – integration of access to digital resources
• Presentation – web environments that benefit users
• FAIR – access and sharing of institutional content
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
FAIR – programme aims
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Explore the OAI protocol as a mechanism for disclosure and
sharing a range of resource types: images, video clips, learning
objects, finding aids, e-prints, e-theses
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Explore other mechanisms for disclosure
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Explore the challenges associated with disclosure and sharing,
including IPR
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Test the delivery of disclosed information through established
JISC services
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Investigate the balance between local and national management
and archiving of resources
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
FAIR – project clusters
14 Projects / 50 Institutions / £3million / 1-3 years
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EFAIR cluster
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DAEDALUS - Glasgow
e-prints UK – RDN, King’s
Electronic Theses – Robert Gordon
HaIRST - Strathclyde
SHERPA - Nottingham
TARDIS - Southampton
Theses Alive! - Edinburgh
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Museums and Images cluster
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Accessing the Virtual Museum - UCL
BioBank Image Archive - Bristol
Harvesting the FitzWilliam - Cambridge
Hybrid Archives – AHDS, King’s
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Institutional Portals
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FAIR Enough - WCC
PORTAL - Hull
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Romeo – Loughborough - ended
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Not just e-prints
• Institutional content of various kinds: eprints, e-theses, e-learning materials etc.
– HaIRST (Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland
Testbed) – http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
– DAEDALUS (Data providers for Academic E-content and the
Disclosure of Assets for Learning, Understanding and
Scholarship) – http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/
• Plus e-theses, images and cultural objects
– E-Theses Robert Gordon, ULL, The British Library,
Aberdeen, Cranfield + Edinburgh, Glasgow
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/library/e-members.htm
– Museums Cambridge, UCL and AHDS at King’s:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/htf/
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Addressing the problems
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RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) - end
– Findings now at: www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
RoMEO Studies 1: The impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving
RoMEO Studies 2: How academics wish to protect their open-access research paper
RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
RoMEO Studies 5: IPR issues for OAI Data and Service Providers
RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
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TARDis (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure)
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University of Southampton at: http://tardis.eprints.org/
investigating overcoming technical, cultural and academic barriers to institutional
repositories
developing working model of multi-disciplinary institutional repository
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Publishing research
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SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) lead:
University of Nottingham – Data Provider
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
– to set up a series of institutional OAI-compliant e-print (pre and post-print)
repositories using eprints.org software
– to investigate key issues in populating and maintaining e-print collections,
including advocacy in the research community
– to work with Service Providers to achieve acceptable standards for
metadata exchange and the dissemination of the content
– to investigate OAIS-compliant digital preservation
– to disseminate learning outcomes and advocacy materials, including
providing detailed advice to others
– Major news – OUP becomes the first publisher to work directly with the
institutional pilot in the UK – October 2003
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Accessing research
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ePrints UK (Building a national metadata repository for e-prints) lead: RDN,
King’s College London – Service Provider
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/
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Partners: UKOLN at Bath, OCLC, Southampton, Leeds, Bristol, Heriot Watt,
Birmingham, Manchester Metropolitan, Oxford, Nottingham, UMIST
– To set up as a Service Provider gathering metadata from
institutional, disciplinary and personal Data Providers
– To enhance records, via web services, with:
• Automatic subject classification
• Authority headings
• Citation analysis resulting in OpenURL citations
– To deliver search interfaces through RDN Hubs
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Institutional work – mid-term lessons
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Collection Management:
– document type and format: e-prints / PDF etc
– digital preservation policies: what and how? – UK centre coming…
– submission procedures: how will files be formatted and then
deposited?
– IPR policies: the rights of the author, institution and publisher?
– metadata quality standards: who creates metadata and according
to what standards – Academic DC?
– Subject schemas specific to digital environments – retrieval focused
rather than storage
– Economics of repositories med/long term?
– Relationships with publishers (and their development teams)
Biggest challenge is obtaining content – advocacy the key
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Contact:
Chris Awre
JISC - King’s College London
FAIR Programme Manager
[email protected]
United Kingdom