Thinking The Unthinkable! Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath Email [email_address] UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/cetis-2006/ Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, Blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources related to this talk are bookmarked in del.icio.us using the ‘ cetis-2006-conference-unthinkable ' tag

About This Session Aims: To provide an opportunity for participants to challenge existing orthodoxies in JISC’s (and CETIS’s) development plans To explore ways in which alternative approaches can be explored To make recommendations to JISC and CETIS How: Small number of brief presentations Group discussions

Aims:

To provide an opportunity for participants to challenge existing orthodoxies in JISC’s (and CETIS’s) development plans

To explore ways in which alternative approaches can be explored

To make recommendations to JISC and CETIS

How:

Small number of brief presentations

Group discussions

About The Technologies Feel free to make use of networked technologies during the workshop: Chat (Gabbly) Wiki –TBC Access slides (on Web) Web browser (e.g. follow links in slides) Blogs, photos, social bookmarks, etc. – please use ‘ cetis-2006-conference-unthinkable ' tag to reference

Feel free to make use of networked technologies during the workshop:

Chat (Gabbly)

Wiki –TBC

Access slides (on Web)

Web browser (e.g. follow links in slides)

Blogs, photos, social bookmarks, etc. – please use ‘ cetis-2006-conference-unthinkable ' tag to reference

About The Facilitators Session facilitators: Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN, University of Bath Steven Warburton, King’s College London Josie Fraser, AoC Nilta Mark Stiles, University of Staffordshire Introduction

Session facilitators:

Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN, University of Bath

Steven Warburton, King’s College London

Josie Fraser, AoC Nilta

Mark Stiles, University of Staffordshire

The Need For Open Discussion The Gartner curve Developers Rising expectations Trough of despair Service plateau Enterprise software Large budgets … Early adopters JISC development work often happens in the early staged of this curve Chasm Failure to go beyond developers & early adopters (cf Gopher) Need for: Advocacy Listening to users Addressing concerns Deployment strategies … This session looks at approaches for avoiding the chasm

The Gartner curve

Chasm

Failure to go beyond developers & early adopters (cf Gopher)

Need for:

Advocacy

Listening to users

Addressing concerns

Deployment strategies

…

About Yourself In small groups: Introduce yourself (your name, where you work, what you do) Agree on 2-3 “unthinkable” areas which you feel would be worth discussing Introduction G

In small groups:

Introduce yourself (your name, where you work, what you do)

Agree on 2-3 “unthinkable” areas which you feel would be worth discussing

About The Workshop Session In this session the following subject areas will be discussed: Web 2.0: Trendy Nonsense Interoperability Through Open Standards! Really? In addition we also hope to cover a topic which you have identified in the initial group discussion About The Session

In this session the following subject areas will be discussed:

Web 2.0: Trendy Nonsense

Interoperability Through Open Standards! Really?

In addition we also hope to cover a topic which you have identified in the initial group discussion

Draft Timetable You Choose 12.15-12.45 Conclusions 12.00-12.15 Web 2.0: Trendy Nonsense 10.00-10.45 Lunch 13.00-14.00 Conclusions & Review 12.45-13.00 Interoperability Through Open Standards! Really? 11.30-12.00 Coffee 11.00-11.30 Conclusions 10.45-11.00 Introduction 09.30-10.00 Session Time

Questions? Any questions

Any questions