Can We Talk? MICHAEL Conference London May 23, 2008Joyce Ray.

Can We Talk?

MICHAEL ConferenceLondon May 23, 2008 Joyce Ray

About the Institute of Museum and Library Services

• IMLS is the largest U.S. cultural funding agency

• Budget: FY08 $263,507,000

• Mission: To create strong museums and libraries that connect people to information and ideas.

• Goals: to support the nation’s 25,000 museums and 122,000 libraries to: – Sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge – Enhance learning and innovation– Support professional development

You Say E-Science…

• We Say Cyberinfrastructure –What are we talking about?

A technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers and people

Research environments that support advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration and other computing and information processing services over the Internet

Sometimes called e-Science, especially in the UK

– Wikipedia

The Challenges are Global

• Develop sustainable repositories - find the right economies of scale

• Enhance discovery & tools to support advanced research & re-use within & across repositories over time

• Address copyright barriers

• Build the content landscape

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CAD Preservation Research: Frank Gehry architectural documents (2006)

Indianapolis Museum of Art

The “Steve” Project

Social tagging research using images from more than one dozen museums posted on Facebook

http://steve.museum/

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://www.interconnectionsreport.org/

IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the InternetFinds positive correlation between use of the Internet and visits to museums and libraries

Johns Hopkins University

National Virtual Observatory Digital Data Curation Program(2006)

Partnership with University of Edinburgh and University of Washington

Using OAI-ORE harvesting to preserve publications and data sets

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Research on EnhancedIntegration of Search and Discovery Tools(2007)

Investigation of advanced metasearch using portal mechanisms and search assistance techniques

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

IMLS Collections & Content Registry

Research(2003, 2007)

Research on OAI-PMH metadata harvesting & metasearch integration

http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/

Purdue University

Data Curation Research(2007)

Distributed Data Curation CenterPartnership with UIUC

Case studies of researcher data/metadata workflow, curation profiles across disciplines, system requirements for managing data in repositories

You Say Centre…

We Say Center

But it’s all about curation (or stewardship?) of digital data

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Host of the 2010 DCC

Digital Curation Conference

2007 Conference in Washington, DC

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

New MLS concentration in

data curation (2006)

Partnerships with science data centers

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/data_curation.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital Curation Curriculum Development (2006)

Partnership with National Archives & Records AdministrationInternational Conference in 2007

http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/

Exploring New Professional Careers

http://chips.ci.fsu.edu/

Cultural Heritage Information Professionals Workshop

Working across the boundaries of libraries, archives & museums

Sarasota FloridaApril 3-4, 2008

Digital Cultural Content Forum

Annual meetings in•2001 London•2002 Washington, DC•2003 Florence•2004 Banff•2005 Oxford•2006 Los Angeles•2007 Montreal

Can We Talk?

Visit IMLS at www.imls.gov

Joyce Rayjray@imls.gov