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QA Focus – Supporting JISC's 5/99 Programme

QA Focus:Working With Jorum+

Brian Kelly

UKOLN

[email protected]

Hamish James

AHDS

[email protected]

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/

Marieke Guy (neé Napier)

UKOLN

[email protected]


About QA FocusQA Focus:

• Is funded by the JISC 5/99 programme• Supports 5/99 projects • Aims to ensure that projects have appropriate QA

procedures which ensure that project deliverables comply with standards & best practices

• Provided by UKOLN and AHDS• Staff:

Brian Kelly, UKOLN (Project Manager) Hamish James, AHDS (QA Focus)

Marieke Guy (neé Napier), UKOLN (QA Focus)

Note that during 2002 QA Focus was provided by ILRT and UKOLN

Note that during 2002 QA Focus was provided by ILRT and UKOLN


We:• Liaise with projects over QA and interoperability issues

(normally through project clusters)• Provide advice on standards & best practices• Encourage projects to document case studies of best

practices (and difficulties experienced) - see <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/>

• Survey projects in order to profile community – see <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/surveys/>

What We DoQA Focus works closely with the JISC (esp. the 5/99 programme team), with JISC Advisory Services and the projects themselves.

JISC

JISC AdvisoryServices

Projects

QA Focus


UKOLN and AHDSUKOLN and AHDS work will be based on the strengths of the two organisations:

• Advisory Roles:The JISC-funded UK Web Focus, Interoperability Focus posts and the Collection Level Description Focus & NOF Technical Advisory Service (UKOLN) together with AHDS's advisory role to the Arts & Humanities sectors

• Experiences In Providing Services:Including the RDN and AHDS's distributed services

• Links With The JISC And JISC Services:Development of the Information Environment, joint projects, …


Work To DateWeb

• Compliance with HTML/CSS standards• Tools for testing compliance

Accessibility• Compliance with WAI standards• Tools for testing compliance• Accessibility policies

Digitisation• QA for work flow for image digitisation

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Future Work (1)Areas of work for 2003 include:

• Digitisation:Building on work on images and extending to digitisation of text and multimedia

• Software Development:Approaches to software developmentIssues of deploying software in a service environment

• Metadata:Interoperability issues; cataloguing rules; etc.


Future Work (2)Of particular relevance to Jorum+:

• Addressing issues of deployment into service for project deliverables

• This may include deployment in area not originally envisaged when project were approved

• Areas may include: Deployment to JISC Services Deployment to institutions Archiving Access through additional delivery channels Deployment to learning repositories


QA Focus And Jorum+

QA Focus:• Will be working with the Jorum+ team• Will complement their work:

Jorum+ team will support the repository applications

QA Focus has an interest in broader repurposing issues

• Will seek to strengthen links with projects• Will seek to provide a neutral broker between

Jorum+ team and JISC

Note that QA Focus's remit currently is for 5/99 projects

Note that QA Focus's remit currently is for 5/99 projects


Questions?Any questions?

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