Transcript Memory institutions and the social fabric of the Web Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN MLA Partnership Digital Agenda Scoping Group June 2006 UKOLN is supported.

Memory institutions and
the social fabric of the Web
Dr Liz Lyon
Director, UKOLN
MLA Partnership Digital Agenda Scoping Group June 2006
UKOLN is supported by:
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
“ Technorati now
indexes >44.1M blogs “
http://www.ideum.com/blog/26
Survey of “museum blogs” in
March 2006: “museums have
been slow to develop blogs and
community sites”
Blended worlds…..
Cultural tourist?
http://www.43places.com/
“Architecture of Participation”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joemagicdeveloper/139378339/
http://www.steve.museum/
“Architecture of Participation”
Massive
digitisation
projects
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
UK participants include:
National Archives
Natural History Museum
Microsoft MSN Book Search
BBC Creative
Archive
http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
Click-Use Licences: Office of Public Sector
Information (OPSI) http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/
Licensing
options?
“Podagogy”?? Blended
worlds….. Leisure and
learning? Formal and
informal approaches?
http://www.flickrmap.com/
Avian flu outbreaks mashup - Nature January 2006
Data from
FAO, WHO…
+Google Earth
Reflections……
The cultural space now reflects the “two-way Web”grassroots meets the institution?
People are capturing and sharing their personal
collections, lives and memories
Sector boundaries are fuzzier: blended culture, tourism, leisure &
learning
Opportunities for engaging (new) audiences and building
communities
…..Consider interactions with the physical world
Requirement for integrated digital infrastructure
Discovery, linking,
citation
Personal data
capture: images, text
Presentation services:
portals
Search,
harvest
Data analysis,
transformation,
mining, modelling
Aggregator
services
Harvest
Deposit
Culture,
Learning,
Leisure
workflows
“Cultural
knowledge
cycle” Vs 0.x
Data curation,
preservation: e-Depot,
deep archives, data
centres
Personal
collections
Deposit
Museums, libraries,
archives
digital repositories
Digitisation
Deposit
Linking, citation
Physical artefacts
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“JISC Vision”: a global landscape of
federated repositories
• Multi-disciplinary, crosssectoral
• e-Framework and Information
Environment context
• National, institutional
• Define common + domainspecific + repository “services”
• Different platforms
• Many format types: data,
eprints, images, geospatial
heterogeneous - metadata
formats, content formats,
identifiers, packaging
standards
homogeneous - metadata
formats, content formats,
identifiers, packaging
standards
repository
• Interoperability based on open
standards, software tools
From Andy Powell: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jiscie/arch/presentations/jiie-jcs-2005/
repository
repository
repository
repository
fusion layer ‘repository federator’
portal
portal
portal
portal
portal
Digital repositories, OA & preservation
• Long-term access: trust, responsibility, policy
• Trusted DR Audit Checklist for Certification Draft Research
Libraries Group-NARA Taskforce 2005 criteria in 4 categories
–
–
–
–
Organisation
Functions, processes & procedures
Designated community & usability
Technologies & technical infrastructure
• UK Digital Curation Centre: advice, tools & services
• RepInfo Registry
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
• EU CASPAR Integrated Project
http://www.casparpreserves.info/pages/1/index.htm
• Task Force on the Permanent Access to the Records of
http://tfpa.kb.nl/
Science
• MLA Preservation in the Regions, DPC Mind the Gap Reports
• Assuring Permanent Access to Cultural Materials?
Adding value: repository services
• Tools: for deposit, normalisation,
manipulation, transformation…..
• Citation, linking, annotation,
visualisation
Knowledge
extraction:
• Aggregators: generic, sectoral, (sub-)
disciplinary
• Mining (data, text, structure)
• Modelling (virtual worlds…)
• Analysis (lexical, image….)
Nature 23 March 2006
OTMI: Open Text
Mining Interface
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/
Emerging tools: TerMine,
GENIA, Cafetiere