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UKOLN is supported by:
Introduction to UKOLN
Dr Liz Lyon, Director
UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Grand Challenge Meeting, June 2005
www.bath.ac.uk
a centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
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About UKOLN • “a centre of expertise in digital information management”• Funding
– Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) + Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA)
– Portfolio of R&D projects
• 27+ staff• Inform the library, information, education and cultural heritage
communities– Policy and advisory role at national level– Build innovative Web-based systems & services– Research and development– Dissemination: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/– e-journal Ariadne – Events: ECDL 2004
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Common Information EnvironmentSupporting cross-sectoral engagement
www.common-info.org.uk/
MLA
JISC
British Library
NHS
Culture Online
DFES
Becta
eGov Unit
eScience
UKOLN
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Infrastructure + IIE
• Building shared services for the IIE– Informing strategic development– Demonstrators and prototypes– IE Service Registry– IE Metadata Schemas Registry– A common framework?
• Embedding open standards– Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) UK Affiliate Managing Agent– W3C representative – OAI Technical Committee– NISO MetaSearch
• Reviewing approaches to Resource Discovery• Digital repositories study
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eLearning activities
• Collaboration with CETIS Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards– Technical Framework to support e-Learning (ELF) – Shaping an approach to Persistent Identifiers
• Partnership with Resource Discovery Network and Learning & Teaching Support Network – Enable greater records sharing– Shared vocabularies
• Advising Jorum+ learning object repository team• Facilitating interoperability with digital libraries (IMS)• Developing eLearning tools (GroupLog Project)• Supporting the FE community
– Regional Support Centres workshops: RSC Wales, RSC SE
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eResearch activities
• JISC Committee for the Support of Research• Facilitating knowledge transfer
– Digital library, computer science and disciplinary communities– National eScience Centre / UKOLN workshops
• Developing Virtual Research Environments (VRE)• Supporting the arts & humanities AHRC expert group• Digital Curation Centre partner • Changing nature of scholarly communications• Research and development projects: eBank UK
The scholarly knowledge cycle.
Liz Lyon, eBankUK article. Ariadne, July 2003.
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Learning & Teaching workflows
Research & e-Science workflows
Aggregator services: national, commercial
Repositories : institutional, e-prints, subject, data, learning objects
Institutional presentation services: portals, Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses, modules
Harvestingmetadata
Data creation / capture / gathering: laboratory experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Deposit / self-archiving
Peer-reviewed publications: journals, conference proceedings
Publication
Validation
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Deposit / self-archiving
Learning object creation, re-use
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Quality assurance bodies
Validation
Presentation services: subject, media-specific, data, commercial portals
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
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eBank UK: building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning”
• JISC-funded from September 2003• Phase 2 February 2005• UKOLN at the University of Bath (lead), University of
Southampton, University of Manchester• “Exemplar: e-Science testbed ‘Combechem’
– Grid-enabled combinatorial chemistry– Crystallography, laser and surface chemistry examples– Development of an e-Lab using pervasive computing
technology– National Crystallography Service
• Resource Discovery Network / PSIgate physical sciences portal
• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/
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Advisory & support roles
• Institutions and the community– Focus posts: Web, Interoperability– Promoting best practice, briefing papers– Creative Commons, collaborative technologies, mobile working– Resource Discovery Network technical support & development– Events: Institutional Web Managers Conference– Dissemination: Ariadne e-Journal
• JISC Executive, Development Team, Services– International Frameworks activity– Information Environment technical advisory role – Digital repository support posts– Events: JISC/CNI Conference
• Museums Libraries & Archives Council– Peoples Network Service– Collection Description work
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Strategic partnershipsCollaborative and cross-sectoral• Metadata for Education Group (MEG) : forum• eGovernment Unit : eGovernment Metadata Standard• RCUK : Policy for Scientific Publications• National eScience Centre : knowledge transfer• British Library : staff development lectures• Digital Preservation Coalition : Current Awareness
Bulletin• JISC/NSF : strategic discussions• EU Delos Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries :
Knowledge Extraction & Semantic Interoperability cluster
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