A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: Memory institutions and the social fabric of the Web Dr.

A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is supported by:

Memory institutions and the social fabric of the Web

Dr Liz Lyon

Director, UKOLN

MLA Partnership Digital Agenda Scoping Group June 2006

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“ Technorati now indexes >44.1M blogs “

http://www.ideum.com/blog/26 Survey of “museum blogs” in March 2006: “museums have been slow to develop blogs and community sites”

http://www.43places.com/

Blended worlds…..

Cultural tourist?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joemagicdeveloper/139378339/

“Architecture of Participation”

http://www.steve.museum/

“Architecture of Participation”

Massive digitisation projects

http://www.opencontentalliance.org/

UK participants include:

National Archives

Natural History Museum

Microsoft MSN Book Search

BBC Creative Archivehttp://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/

Click-Use Licences: Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/

Licensing options?

“Podagogy”?? Blended worlds….. Leisure and learning? Formal and informal approaches?

http://www.flickrmap.com/

Avian flu outbreaks mashup - Nature January 2006

Data from FAO, WHO…

+Google Earth

Reflections……

The cultural space now reflects the “two-way Web”- grassroots meets the institution?

People are capturing and sharing their personal collections, lives and memories Sector boundaries are fuzzier: blended culture,

tourism, leisure & learning Opportunities for engaging (new) audiences and

building communities …..Consider interactions with the physical world

Requirement for integrated digital infrastructure

Culture, Learning, Leisure workflows

Aggregator services

Museums, libraries, archives digital repositories

Data curation, preservation: e-Depot, deep archives, data centres

Deposit

Harvest

Deposit

Physical artefacts

Digitisation

Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling

Search, harvest

Presentation services: portals

Discovery, linking, citation

Linking, citation

Personal collections

Deposit

“Cultural knowledge cycle” Vs 0.x

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Personal data capture: images, text

“JISC Vision”: a global landscape of federated repositories

fusion layer ‘repository federator’

repository repository repository repository repository

portal portal portal portal portal

heterogeneous - metadataformats, content formats,identifiers, packagingstandards

homogeneous - metadataformats, content formats,identifiers, packagingstandards

From Andy Powell: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/presentations/jiie-jcs-2005/

• Multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral

• National, institutional

• Different platforms

• Many format types: data, eprints, images, geospatial

• e-Framework and Information Environment context

• Define common + domain-specific + repository “services”

• Interoperability based on open standards, software tools

Digital repositories, OA & preservation• Long-term access: trust, responsibility, policy• Trusted DR Audit Checklist for Certification Draft Research Libraries Group-NARA

Taskforce 2005 criteria in 4 categories – Organisation– Functions, processes & procedures– Designated community & usability– Technologies & technical infrastructure

• UK Digital Curation Centre: advice, tools & services• RepInfo Registry• EU CASPAR Integrated Project

• Task Force on the Permanent Access to the Records of Science• MLA Preservation in the Regions, DPC Mind the Gap Reports• Assuring Permanent Access to Cultural Materials?

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

http://www.casparpreserves.info/pages/1/index.htm

http://tfpa.kb.nl/

Adding value: repository services• Tools: for deposit, normalisation, manipulation, transformation…..

• Citation, linking, annotation, visualisation

• Aggregators: generic, sectoral, (sub-) disciplinary

Knowledge extraction:• Mining (data, text, structure)

• Modelling (virtual worlds…)

• Analysis (lexical, image….)

http://www.nactem.ac.uk/

Emerging tools: TerMine, GENIA, Cafetiere

Nature 23 March 2006 OTMI: Open Text Mining Interface