Agile resources on the open web …. a global digital library

2 November 2010 DLF, Fall Forum, Palo Alto
Presenter or main title…
Agile resources on the open web ….
a global digital library
Session Title or subtitle…
Rachel Bruce, Innovation Director, Digital Infrastructure, JISC

24/09/2011| Slide 2
DLF Fall Forum
2 November, 2010
What JISC is …
Our direction and approach to access and re-use of resources to underpin education and research

JISC
Easy and widespread access to information and resources, anytime, anywhere; a vision with technology and information management at the heart of research and education.
Funded by seven public funding organisations, plus some charges for services
Governed by representatives from the education sector not by government

JISC-funded
content providers
institutional
content providers
external
content providers
authentication/authorisation
(Shibboleth/SAML)
JISC IE service registry
user preferences services
provision
brokers
aggregators
indexes
catalogues
metadata schemaregistries
resolvers
fusion
institutional preferences
services
institutional
portals
media-specific
portals
learning management
systems
subject
portals
OpenURL
resolvers
terminology services
presentation
end-user
desktop/browser
shared infrastructure
Information Environment, Andy Powell, UKOLN, 2003

Open Access
JISC-funded
content providers
institutional
content providers
external
content providers
authentication/authorisation
(Athens/SAML)
JISC IE service registry
user preferences services
provision
aggregators
indexes
catalogues
brokers
metadata schemaregistries
resolvers
Data
fusion
institutional preferences
services
institutional
portals
media-specific
portals
learning management
systems
subject
portals
OpenURL
resolvers
Disclosure
terminology services
presentation
end-user
desktop/browser
shared infrastructure
Web 2.0
User interaction

Opportunities and approaches ….
Opening the fortress
Working at web scale
Digging deep
Embracing user generated content
Harnessing implicit intentions
Approaching real time

Principles for infrastructure
Network level -leveraging scale.
Integrated into the Web and future global communication structures.
Interoperable and flexible integrated into local, national and global provision.
Reduce duplication of effort and be sustainable
Robust and scalable.
Capable of supporting a comprehensive (format) inclusive (content) coverage.
Coherent, “compelling”, useable.
Simple to adopt (shouldn’t confuse with applications)
Meet the requirements of key user groups.
Innovative and open to change and adaptation.
Achievable.
24/09/2011| Supporting education and research | Slide 7

Middleware
Middleware
Open metadata and linking datasets
ContentResources and Storage
Access and user facing services & tools
Curation
Learning
Research

Infrastructure for library, museum and archive resources
Full list of members at: http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/scope-and-terms-of-reference/

Vision
UK students and researchers will have easy, flexible access to content and services through a collaborative, aggregated and integrated resource discovery and delivery framework which is comprehensive, open and sustainable

Open Metadata
Graphics courtesy of the JISC web2practice project: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/JISC-web2practice/index.html

Future State….
Integrated and seamless access to the rich resource collections held in libraries, museums and archives in UK HEIs
Creation of a thorough and open aggregated layer - designed to work with all major search engines - of data about the resource collections
Provision of a diverse range of innovative and personalised resource discovery services to students, teachers and researchers
Avoidance of duplication of effort and increased efficiency
Existing resource discovery services encouraged to develop and innovate
Data will be available to commercial organisations to develop services as well
Data and functionality will need to be diffused to other software and websites that are used by students, teachers and researchers

“Aggregation of supply and demand”
“Making our data work hard, engagement and co-creation”
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After, Lorcan Dempsey
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/dempsey/

Repositories UK
Digital New Zealand
Culture 24
Registry of Datasets
A means not a
destination
Open Education Resources
Facilitate access & use
CERN Open Book Catalogue
Europeana
COPAC, Archives Hub, Suncat
Web of aggregated
data
Aggregation Ecosystem

Linked Data
LOCAH Project, Linked Open Copac Archives Hub.
CHALICE, Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities.
OPEN Bibliography, description, authorities etc.
OPEN Citation, a public RDF triplestore for biomedical literature citations.
CUL,Cambridge University Library widgets and open catalogue.
LinkedBrainz, MusicBrainz, community music metadatabase.
LUCERO,Linking University Content for Education and Research Online, Open University.

BBC
Combines clips with
other sources of information
from around the web & within
the BBC.
URI for every species &
habitat to aggregate around
that link.

Web Scale - Aggregation - Personalisation
‘The more we track and aggregate,
the more our suggestions will be personalised.’

Play me music
I will like
‘… and the more we track, the better
we can adapt our service without your intervention.’

‘… we’ll even learn
to recommend content
by taking account
of your location,
habits & moods
and by
making comparisons’
My activity patterns
My GPS data
My Calendar

Open Educational Resources
Two phases of the programme
7 Institutional, 14 Subject and 9 Individual
Release, Use and Discover
Integrity ------------------- reusability
Into the wild ------------- community based
Minimal metadata to ensure contribution – rich metadata to meet the needs of users.
Hosting – repositories, learning management systems, third party web sites e.g. Flickr, community focused web site.

Thank you to David Kay for personalisation slides, taken from the Survive or Thrive workshop held earlier in the year Manchester.

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