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From RDTF to Discovery
Prof. David Baker
Deputy Chair, JISC Board
Date
Venue
In the beginning...
In 2009 JISC and RLUK convened a group of experts to discuss the issues with resource discovery of the collections
of UK higher education libraries, museums and archives.
After 4 meetings the group agreed on a vision to address the issues identified
08/04/2023 | Supporting education and research | Slide 3
http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/06/08/launch-of-vision/
Integrated and seamless access to the rich resource collections held in libraries, museums and archives in UK HEIs
Creation of a thorough and open aggregated layer - designed to work with all major search engines - of data about the resource collections
Provision of a diverse range of innovative and personalised resource discovery services to students, teachers and researchers
Avoidance of duplication of effort and increased efficiency
Existing resource discovery services encouraged to develop and innovate
Data will be available to commercial organisations to develop services as well
Data and functionality will need to be diffused to other software and websites that are used by students, teachers and researchers
A Future State of the Art by 2012
Where are we in the implementation?
Phase 1 – open data
Phase 2 – aggregation and service building
Phase 3 – further service building
Dec 2012
You are here
Sep 2011
May 2012
What’s been done?
http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/
http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk/http://rdtfmetadata.jiscpress.org/
http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk/newsletter/
http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk/newsandevents/events/2011/04/18/
What we’re working on
8 projects
Evenly spread across Libraries, Archives and Museums
Open, reusable metadata
Finish in July
What we’re working on
Making the metadata more open and easier to reuse.
Developing collection management
What we’re working on
Advice and guidance on: metadata, licensing, aggregation and technical approaches
Distilling advice and guidance from the 8 projects
Further events and newsletter
Stakeholder engagement
A new name for the site to make engagement easier
So far our work has been focused on preparatory work with a limited number of stakeholders.
However, now it is time to engage with a wider audience of information professionals, managers and developers.
So.....
Our aim is that Discovery will help to mobilise and energise the community, engaging stakeholders to create a critical mass of open and reusable data, and explore what open data makes possible through real-world exemplars and case studies.
To keep up to date with the work of Discovery:
Visit the website: http://discovery.ac.uk
Follow the hashtag: #ukdiscovery
Sign up for the newsletter on the discovery site
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