Jabes 2008 - Le JISC, son rôle dans l'organisation et la structuration de l'IST au Royaume-Uni

Joint Information Systems Committee 06/06/2008 | Supporting education and research | Slide 1
Introduction to JISC
JISC Director e-Content: Catherine Grout
Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting education and research

Joint Information Systems Committee
An Introduction to JISC
« J'ai toujours vu que pour réussir dans le monde, il fallait
avoir l'air fou et être sage. »
Montesquieu
| Supporting education and research | Slide 2

What I will cover today:
JISC : Organisation and structure, culture and mission
Services
Innovation in the “Digital Library”
Provision of (e) Content
Some conclusions

What I WONT cover today:
Support for Research activity
E-Learning
Support for institutional administration and systems
Third Stream – business and community engagement

Organisation
Culture
Structure

JISC Strategy 2007JISC Strategy 2007--20092009

Strategic Mission & Aims 2007-2009
To provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of
ICT, to support education and research
To deliver innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice
that support institutions in meeting their missions.
To promote the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support learning
and teaching.
To promote the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support
research.
To promote the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support the
management of institutions
To develop and implement a programme to support institutions’ engagement with
the wider community.
Continuing to improve JISC’s own working practices.

JISC Governance
Not a legal entity
Standing committee of the UK HE and FE funding councils
Core funding partners (HEFCE, SFC, HEFCW, DCELLS, DEL)
Other funding partners (LSC, Research Councils, DIUS)
Committee based structure
Executive of around 80 staff to support the work of the JISC Board and
its sub committees
Executive ensures funds are used for the intended purpose, deliver the
planned outcomes and represent value for money
All JISC Executive offices, programmes, projects & services could be
audited by internal audit of the National Audit Office

JISC Core Funding Contributions
JISC CORE FUNDING CONTRIBUTIONS
DEL(FE) 1.00%
SFC(HE) 11%
HEFCW 4.60%
DEL(HE) 1.90%
DCELLS 2.60%
SFC(FE) 4.10%
HEFCE 74.80%

Primary JISC Activities
National provision to Education and Research:
Computing Network (Super JANET)
Support for Learning and Teaching
Support for Research
Information Environment and Access Management
Electronic Content
Advisory Services

In each context, JISC:
Manages Programmes and Services
Develops facilities
Provides support, advice and guidance
Observes trends and takes initiatives
Creates collaborative networks at home and abroad

Political Drivers
Driven by needs of the community it serves; strong focus in HE and
Research
Supporting the aims and objectives of the JISC’s funding partners
HEFCE e-Learning Strategy and equivalents in devolved countries
DfES e-Strategy and ‘shared services’ agenda
Government’s Science and Investment Framework 2004 – 2014
Leitch Review of Skills
English FE support focused on a core package of services
Support for HE provision beyond HEIs (colleges, work place, adult
learning)
Working in collaboration with e.g. HEA and Becta

Strategic Issues/Priorities
Infrastructure: dedicated bandwidth on demand; access management
for a wider range of institutional resources/activities; e-framework
Content: increase takeup and widen access; improve strategic
content negotiation; longer term sustainability
L&T: flexible learning; improved use of resources
Research: e-science; semantic grid; VREs
Institutional Support: e-admin; e-management; widening
participation; third stream activities
Skills: is the existing information management expertise and structure
within institutions adequate or appropriate to meet new opportunities?
Changing Content Environment: open standards; open access;
integrated repositories; IPR; vision of content layer of resources

JISC Activities
JANET
Network services
(CERT, V-C, JANET Roaming, JANET txt
Service, JISCMail)
Access Management
E-Framework
Information Environment
– Portals/resource discovery
– Digital repositories & preservation
– Shared infrastructure services
Content
– NESLI (electronic journals)
– E-books Pilot
– Data platforms (MIMAS, EDINA,
ESDS/Data Archive, Jorum, Depot)
– Intut (resource discovery)
Learning & Teaching
– Pedagogy
– Innovation
– Frameworks and Tools
Research
– E-Infrastructure
– Virtual Research Environments
Management & Administration
Business & Community Engagement
Advisory Services
(RSCs, JISC Legal, JISC Infonet, Techdis, OSS
Watch, Text Mining, Digital Curation Centre,
TASI, Plagiarism, Netskills)
Development Services
(UKOLN, CETIS, TechWatch)

Criteria for Activity
Selection criteria for JISC programmes are that the activity:
is technology based
provides a UK wide benefit, adding value through economies of scale
unfeasible without central support
cannot be done better by another organisation

JISC maintains its position as a leadership organisation
which adopts technology innovation to deliver practical
solutions by being:
– Innovative
– Risk taking
– Proactive
– Investigative and explorative
– Knowledgeable
– Focussed
– Respected
– Authoritative
How JISC Stays Different

Predicted Core & Capital Expenditure 2007/08
NB: Core funding is 07/08 AY and Capital funding is 07/08 FY

Capital Programme Budget: 2006-09
Subject to same controls & procedures as Core Funding
Programmes overseen by appropriate sub-committee
SuperJANET 5 £27.60m JCN
Digitisation £12.25m* JCS
E-Books/Strategic E-Content £ 1.48m JCS
E-Learning £11.36m JLT
E-Infrastructure/Research £12.05m JSR
Users & Innovation £ 4.75m JIIE
Digital Repositories & Preservation £15.10m JIIE
Outreach Activities £ 1.32m JOS
Programme Management £ 3.36m SMT
TOTAL £89.27m
*This includes £6.25m reallocated from the previous capital programme

The Value of JISC
For every £1 spent by JISC on
Services the saving to the
community is £9
…on the provision of e-
Resources, the return to the
community in value of time saved
in information gathering, is at
least in the order of £18
…on the procurement of e-
Resources the saving to the
community is more than £26
…on advisory services the
saving to the community is £7

JISC Committee Structure

Role of Sub Committees
Contribute to and implement JISC strategy and key deliverables
Document progress through Operating Plan
Meet 3-4 times a year to plan strategically, review and make decisions
Report back to each JISC Board meeting (3x per year)
Sub Committee Chair a JISC Member
Deputy Chair appointed

JISC Sub Committees
Networking: charged with providing a pervasive, leading edge, network
infrastructure
Content Services: to provide high quality information, content resources and
services to facilitate excellence in learning, teaching and research
Integrated Information Environment: to ensure continued development of an
online information environment to provide secure & convenient access to a
comprehensive collection of scholarly & educational material
Learning & Teaching: responsible for supporting the learning and teaching
community by helping institutions to promote innovation in the use of ICT to
benefit L&T, research and the management of institutions
Support of Research: to provide appropriate infrastructure & services to
support the needs of researchers, particularly in the context of the UK
Research Grid, including network infrastructure & key issues such as
authentication and data storage/retrieval
Organisational Support: to expand the knowledge, effectiveness & change
capabilities of FE and HEIs, & their capacity for external engagement, by
providing world class support to their organisational management, business
processes, information systems & the individuals themselves that work & study
within them

How to Get Involved with JISC
Collegiate approach
Nominations procedure for sub committees
Balance of skills, knowledge, experience, diversity
Website application form
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/committees/nominations_committee/subco
mmittee_member_application.aspx)
Sub committee chair & secretary review applications
Shortlist onto a waiting list
Nominations Committee appoint from waiting list to committees
4 year appointment period (+4)
Observers/Representatives from relevant partner organisations

JISC Executive Structure

JISC Programme Management
JISC runs programmes of innovative ICT projects.
Currently there are more than 30 different programmes running
Enhanced current programme management practice using Managing
Successful Programmes:
– Owned and promoted by the Office for Government and Commerce
through out the public sector and beyond www.ogc.gov.uk
– Outcomes Driven
– Improved consistency and join up across programmes

Programme Management Environment
Environment
(Political, Economic, Sociological and Techonological )
Strategies, Policies, Initiatives and Targets
Programme
Projects and related activities
Outputs > Capability
Outcomes > Benefits
MSP
JISCStrategy
HEFCEStrategy

Repositories Programme Management Example
Environment
Political: UK Research Status Economical: Exploiting Resources
Sociological: Open Access Technological: Internet
Free at the point of use
Critical mass of content
Open and integrated access to content
£14 Repositories Programme
Projects: i) Repositories Support Project ii) The Depot
iii) Repository Search Project iv) Preservation Studies
v) funding for institutions to create new and enhance existing repositories
Outcomes > Benefits
Increased content for learning and research
Improved institutional infrastructure
Improved skills and knowledge in the sector
Improved accessibility for longevity of content
Outputs > Capability
Richer search infrastructure
Content more easily accessible by subject
Better co-ordination for digital preservation
HEFCE & JISC Strategy
MSP

Outcomes of Innovation Programmes
1. Enhanced capacity, knowledge
and skills to enable positive and
informed change in the sector
(through piloting new technologies
and approaches)
2. Guidance to the sector on ‘best
practice’ models for using technology
that can be used at departmental,
institutional, regional or national
levels
3. Strategic leadership to the sector
and other bodies in specialist areas
and to influence national and
international agendas
4. Knowledge and experience as a
basis for future funding decisions for
the JISC and its sub-committees
5. New or enhanced services,
infrastructure, standards or
applications that may be used at
departmental, institutional, regional
or national levels

JISC
Services

Value of JANET
2006 Study : If JANET did not exist:
– If all HE and FEIs independently purchased their internet connectivity the
total expenditure would be more than twice the current total annual cost of
funding JANET.
– Significant savings on the estimated expenditure would only be achieved if
institutions were encouraged to carry out large joint procurements, either
regionally or nationally.
– If UKERNA did not exist, a number of ancillary activities would be lost or
difficult to coordinate.

Content Delivery and Discovery
Data Centres : MIMAS and EDINA (deliver content centrally for learning
and research
Resource Discovery: COPAC, SUNCAT (Bibliographic Records), Intute
(subject catalogues), Archives Hub (records from Archives in UK HE)
Licensing and Procurement: JISC Collections, HE, FE, Schools
Specialist services: UKOLN and CETIS (JISC and its community)

Advisory Services
JISC Legal
JISC Infonet
Techdis
Advisory Service for Images & Moving Images (TASI)
Plagiarism
Netskills
Procureweb
Regional Support Centres

JISC
Digital Library Infrastructure
Innovation

Overview
06/06/2008 | Supporting education and research | Slide 35

Information Environment
Infrastructure to support the publication, discovery and delivery of
electronic resources, and their integration into academic practice
JISC’s distinctive contribution to UK e-Infrastructure (writ large)
Information Environment began as set of common services providing
D2D infrastructure; Integrated Information Environment is application of
same approach on a broader scale
Services based around common, open specifications and standards and
agreed policies; examples –
– AuthZ/AuthN, registries, aggregators, resolvers
– Metadata schema
– Portals

Information Environment Technical Architecture
Preservation
Content Delivery
Interoperability
Interfaces
Common services

New perspectives (1); “Managed Environment”
Information environment initially conceived as a Managed Environment
Not something the JISC would build alone
Is evolving as a distributed environment
The term “Environment” should not suggest a walled garden –
environment has permeable boundaries
Perhaps Negotiated Environment is a more descriptive term

New perspectives (2); “Presentation”
“Presentation” and “delivery” tend to imply a simple, single directional
relationship with the community of use
The web continues to evolve in the direction of participation and
increased, disintermediated engagement
– Changing nature of publication
– Increased levels of comment and involvement
– Fulfilling expectations of Metcalfe’s Law*
Academic practitioner will come to expect increased levels of interaction
with resources
Information Environment technical design is flexible enough to
accommodate this emphasis – but policy issues surround integration with
“Web 2.0” like services
* the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of its users

Changing user interaction landscape

The changing landscape
Portal – still valid and effective means of coherently providing
personalised access to services
– Portal delivery accompanied by other means of delivery
Context of use drives choice of form of service
– Role, location, task
Note changes in systems design – more component based, service
oriented architecture
Objective: effective integration of services and content at optimal points
within flow of activity – as determined by those engaged in the activity
– Search from within learning environment; publish from within VRE
Flexibility and choice is usually a “good thing” – how to provide such
choice cost effectively? Service re-use in multiple contexts a priority

JISC
e-Content

JISC Collections Ltd (licensing)
Over 50 online resources in the JISC portfolio
Over 2100 subscriptions from HE and FE institutions to
these resources
Resources used 24 hours a day 7 days a week, including Christmas Day
JISC agreements save institutions millions of pounds per annum – for
example, the commercial cost of access to ISI Web of Science is
£15,000 per user per annum – the JISC agreement gives access to
every student and member of staff at an institution for a maximum cost
of £13,500 per annum
The resources are heavily used – for example, 2.8 million sessions are
conducted on ISI Web of Science per month
HE, FE, Research now schools, International licensing experiments

Examples of Savings
Digimap: save £4m per annum
ISI Web of Science: save £5.69m per annum
NESLi2 (10 journal deals): save £2m per annum
Heritage Collections: save £2.82m per annum
• Eg. Royal Society of Chemistry back file used to cost
£25,000 plus £500 per annum per institution. It now only
costs £500 per annum.

Community Content: Repositories
Area of very high investment for the JISC
Institutional, subject based, domain based
Started with work to support the delivery of eprint
collections in 2002
Three phases of investment
Third phase: 2009-11: Repositories UK

Repositories Vision
Further develop and populate institutional repositories (and subject
repositories where appropriate) – contribute to a critical mass
Develop and provide shared practice and policies to enhance skills for content
use and sharing
Build a rich search infrastructure for research and learning assets from
institutions
Refine standards and specifications for digital repositories and preservation –
improve interoperability, accessibility and longevity
Improve and define an infrastructure for the stewardship and use of
resources
Develop ways to embed content in the research, learning and administrative
processes in universities and colleges
Make scholarly communication more effective – enrich research and learning

Why a Programme?
Ability to enthuse, cajole, enforce, aims of wider strategy
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts– shared assets, shared
metadata, developing critical mass of material, shared infrastructure,
joining it all up!
Identify common interests, challenges and goals
– Web2.0 / user generated content – what does that mean for the
institution and the Information Environment?
– Improved interoperability – how?
– Work in global environment – DRIVER, OAI-ORE
– Encourage deposit – what are the ways?
– Sharing data – what are the IPR frameworks that are required?
Sharing – building communities – building on previous work

Repositories
Services
Repositories
for
Institutions
National /
Subject
repositories
Search
Registries for
curation and
discovery
Tools and
Innovation
Projects (B)
Discovery to Delivery and
Interoperability Projects
(C)
Shared Infrastructure
Services Projects (I)
Start Up and
Enhancement
Projects (D)
Repositories
Support Project
(A)
UK Search of
Repositories Project (E)
Join Up
Scholarly
Communications
(J)
Interim
Repository
(F)
Repositories in
Institutional
Context (G)
Open
Standards
Repositories
Research Team
Digital
Preservation &
Records
Management
(H)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres.aspx

Repositories and Preservation Programme
Tools and Innovation: 13 projects
Discovery to Delivery: 12 projects
Digital Preservation: 5 Projects (couple of tools and innovation too)
Shared Infrastructure Services: 8 Projects
Start up and Enhancement projects (SUE): 25
(Total projects currently: 67)
AND
Learning Materials Repository (JORUM)
Other projects becoming sustainable services in repository area
Allied Scholarly Communications and Open Access Strand

JISC Digitisation
£12m funding – Bids chosen
after public consultation and peer
review
16 projects, running from early
2007 to early 2009
Wide range in skills and
experience and size of projects
Previous Phase, 10m funding, 6
projects (2003)
Previous experiments (2 early
programmes 1997..)
JISC Digitisation Strategy

Digitisation
Not just converting a load of stuff to
digital!
User Engagement
Protection from Deterioration
Contextualised Resources
Delivery Access and Sustainability
Building a National Critical Mass

The Changing e-Content Environment
The Common Information Environment (CIE)
Initiative begun by JISC in 2001 to make better links across the
public sector to encourage more use of investment in digital
content
In 2005, JISC and the Consortium of University Research Libraries
(CURL) commissioned the Loughborough Digitisation Study
The three main recommendations from that study were:
– Establish a UK framework for digitisation
– Co-ordinate existing services
– Investigate users needs

The larger content picture…

Policy: Strategic Content Alliance
Aim: To develop a common framework of principles and good
practices for e-content activities across the domains of life long
learning and teaching, research and cultural heritage.
Main features of the work:
– Collaboration (Life Long learning, Education, Research, Health, Cultural
Heritage)
– Policy and good practice recommendations
– Economies of scale
– More integration and best value for public content
– Registers of digital collections
– Better coordination

Who's in the Alliance? - What's the Vision?
Vision:
Working across the public sector to fully realise the potential of e-content
for all users through the greater integration of services and technologies
and the removal of political and administrative barriers.
Who's in the Alliance?
– JISC
– The BBC
– The NHS
– The British Library
– Museums and Libraries Archive
– e-Science Core programme
– BECTa

Benefits to the Funders
Co-ordinated approach to the identification of public sector e-content
Collaboration for improved quality of the outputs
An overview of the different e-content strategies
Better market intelligence about the public sector e-content requirements
of our users
A stronger commitment to the development of standards and
interoperability
Shared direction and coherent messages about public sector e-content
provision
A common approach to IPR, Licensing and Digital Rights Management in
order to facilitate access, use and re-use of e-content by citizens
Identification of affordable solutions for the ongoing sustainability
A common understanding of the risks

Benefits to the Users
A reduction in the technical, political, and administrative barriers
which currently inhibit the use of public sector e-content
An increase in the use of public sector e-content from audiences
who may not currently be actively engaged with the e-content
currently on offer and ultimately a richer and more personalised
searching environment
An increase in re-use and redeployment of e-content resources
beyond the audience that they were originally intended for
More streamlined and easier access (through enhanced resource
discovery) to users of public sector e-content resources
irrespective of location

JISC
In Conclusion

Our challenges
1. Sustainability
2. The changing political environment

Our challenges
3. Keeping ahead
“A bit over half of the country is online, but more than 75% of those users have
broadband access. Competition to provide French consumers Internet access
and Internet-based phone, TV and even wireless services is transforming the
market. These wholesale shifts to new technologies in France make what is
happening in the US look like baby steps.”
James Belcher
4. Remaining relevant
« On ne peut désirer ce qu'on ne connaît pas. »
Voltaire

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