Transcript Global Research Library 2020: a report to Europe European Information Space: Infrastructures, Services and Applications Workshop Rome, Italy 29-30 October 2007 Dr Jessie M.N.

Global Research Library 2020: a
report to Europe
European Information Space:
Infrastructures, Services and Applications Workshop
Rome, Italy
29-30 October 2007
Dr Jessie M.N. Hey
Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group
Learning Societies Lab
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk
From Seattle to
Southampton to the sun
Seattle
Southampton
Enjoying our host the FAO
Expect the unexpected (a swarm
of birds towards the Vatican) a
theme of GRL 2020
Research is global
Global Research Library 2020
Willows Lodge Workshop
Woodinville, Washington, USA
30 Sept – 2nd Oct 2007
Participants
• Chosen from across sectors and
countries
• Expertise, thinkers – see reading
list
• http://www.lib.washington.edu/grl20
20/readings.html
Getting to know each other at
the neighbouring winery
Setting scene for the hard
work
• Why GRL 2020? Why You?
• An e-science Vision
• The Cloud as the Platform for Research - A
Technology View
• A View from a Global Researcher
Ann Marie Kimball, Professor, Epidemiology,
University of Washington and Director, Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation Emerging Infections Network
(APEC EINET)
When the sun came out....
Followed by the Library
Summit 2007 on Oct 3rd
• Hosted by Microsoft
• Keynote by Jon Udell
Remixing the library
Abstract: In an online world of small pieces loosely joined,
librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated
joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in
transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now,
on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries
function not only as centers of consumption, but also as centers
of production?
http://jonudell.net/talks/lib2020/talk.html
Technology ideas to savour
• Demos such as LiveLabs, Live
Search Academic, Office file
formats, eJournal Publishing
Service, PLANETS
• Followed by a longer term view with
the ‘Home of the Future’ and the
‘Center for Information Work’
Where to find the info:
• http://www.lib.washington.edu/grl2020/
• For presentations and actions
• Always a blog or two e.g.
• http://weibellines.typepad.com/weibelines/2007/10/grl2020-a-voic.html
• Intriguing how Google cannot resist these!
Appropriate new book by a
participant to add to the list
• Hot off the press: October 2007
• Scholarship in the Digital Age
• Information, Infrastructure, and the
Internet
• Christine L. Borgman
• The MIT Press
• Compares each discipline’s approach to
infrastructure issues
Institutional and related
repositories - symbols of change
The future is joined up:
the scholarly
knowledge cycle (joining up research and learning)
This month I started work on our elearning repository project
- part of our whole vision of the
institutional repository
Thanks to Liz Lyon
The British Library – an integral part of
our future plans for the hybrid library!
Vision for 2020 Architecture
External Content
Digital
Preservation
Information Provider
or
Source
Physical Ite m
Metadata:
Descriptive
Physical Item
Request
Physical Content:
Licensed
Legal Deposit
Donated
Purchased
Stacks/ASP
Digitisation
On Demand
Physical
Items
Search &
Retrieval
Resource Discovery/User
Interface
Item Matching
Hierarchical
Metadata &
Full Text Index
Digital
Delivery
Researchers
Authentication
Physical & Digital
Accession/Ingest
Digital Ite m
Metadata:
Descriptive
Technical
Structural
Rights
Digital Item
Request
Access Control
Publishers
Digitisation
Web Sites
Donors
Universities
Cache
API (Application Progamme Interface)
Digital
Repository
Digital Content:
Licensed
Legal Deposit
Harvested
Donated
Interactive
Digital
Items
3rd Party
Applications
Digital
Repository
Physical
Delivery
Reading Rooms
Publishers
Universities
Donors
Delivery
Systems
Conservation
Finance Systems, Management Information, CRM, Intranet, HR
Loan
Mail
1
To illustrate the need my
computer science colleague was
reading a book from 1951
Key thoughts from group
sessions
• Endorse the need for and encourage
improved infrastructure especially technical
but also social, economic
• Pay attention to less developed countries thanks to Barbara Aronson of WHO for keeping
us on our toes – the HINARI Access to Research
Initiative is a WHO programme which enables
access to international journals for more than
100 of the world's poorest countries.
And some of the others
• New interdisciplinary perspectives
for the information professions
• Leadership development
• Identify proof of concept projects
• Need to tackle IPR issues
• Need to reform tenure and rewards
system for academics
Meanwhile the external
world keeps changing
• Wednesday, October 17, the Rector of the
University of Brasilia hosted the rectors of six
major Brazilian universities, as well as the
chairman and a director of the Brazilian
Institute for Information on Science and
Technology
• The purpose of the meeting was to establish
the foundations of a Brazilian movement for
Open Access to scientific and scholarly
publications: the Brazilian Open Access Task
Force.
More in Europe
• A Conference of Rectors of European
Universities convened in Liège on 18 October
2007 by the Rector of the University of Liège,
Bernard Rentier, has launched
EurOpenScholar:
•
"a showcase and a tool for the promotion of
Open Access (OA) in Europe.
• It will be a consortium of European universities resolved to
move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest possible
number of researchers, their institutions and their European
Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the
mode of communication of tomorrow.
And in the US
• In a victory for libraries, the Senate
on October 23 passed an
appropriations bill that included a
mandatory public access directive
for research funded by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
Plan to produce a white
paper/manifesto
Influences:
• Towards 2020 Science ed. Stephen
Emmott, Microsoft Research Ltd
2006
• The Digital Library Manifesto
Leonardo Candela et al, DELOS
(2002-6).......aim to set the foundations and
identify the cornerstone within the universe of
DLs........
Activities
• Further work by groups/individuals
eg Open Repositories 2008 in
Southampton – subject aggregation
from institutional repositories
• Continue via further workshop in
2008 in Europe or further afield
Learning from each other
• From Europe
• The context of discipline is
important
• From the US
• We need to find ways of funding
initiatives together to tackle global
problems
The workshop was timely!
They made it happen and made it work
• Betsy Wilson and her staff at University of
Washington Libraries
• Tony Hey's group at Microsoft
• Especial thanks to Lee Dirks, Linda Ambre,
and Ann Ferguson
We’re optimistic about the future but will
first set down a joint global perspective
Thank you – Jessie Hey
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