1 Joining it all up relevant standards and developments from the Heritage sector and beyond Dr. Paul Miller Interoperability Focus UK Office for Library & Information Networking (UKOLN) [email protected]http:// www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from JISC and the EU. UKOLN also receives support from the Universities of Bath and Hull where staff are based.
28
Embed
Joining it all up relevant standards and developments from the Heritage sector and beyond
Joining it all up relevant standards and developments from the Heritage sector and beyond. Dr. Paul Miller Interoperability Focus UK Office for Library & Information Networking (U KOLN ) [email protected]://www.ukoln.ac.uk/. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
1
Joining it all uprelevant standards and developments from the Heritage sector and beyond
Dr. Paul Miller
Interoperability FocusUK Office for Library & Information Networking (UKOLN)
UKOLN is funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from JISC and the EU. UKOLN also receives support from the Universities of Bath and Hull where staff are based.
2
Joined up Talking
e–Government
A Netful of Jewels
Culture Online“the Semantic Web”
New Library: the People’s Network
MEG
e–*
e–University
CIMI.
3
Joined up Building
The People’s Network
Distributed National Electronic Resource
ukonline.gov / firstgov.gov / *.gov
HEIRNET
SCRAN
National Electronic Library for Health
A2A/ Archive Hub
24 Hour Museum.
4
Joined up Doing= Interoperability
5
What is interoperability?
“to be interoperable, one should actively be engaged in the ongoing
process of ensuring that the systems, procedures and culture of an organisation are managed in such a way as to maximise opportunities for exchange and re-use of information, whether internally or externally.”
See www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/See www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/
6
Why interoperate?
• because, at the end of the day, the user really doesn’t care which high quality data repository gives them the stuff they want…
…so long as they can get it!
• because the barriers we erect between ourselves serve merely to impede.
7
Why interoperate?
• Resources need not respect organisational views we impose upon them• A virtual museum of all Da Vinci’s work?• Citizen–focussed access to information and
services across local, national and international government?
• The content of the British Museum available to people in a language other than English?
• The paintings of the Louvre, explained to a seven year–old?
• Books, archival folios, and physical objects relating to a topic available together?.
8
How to interoperate…
• Depends upon the situation, of course, but…
standards
standards
standards!de facto
de jure
national
international
community
initiative
9
The nice thing about standards…
…is that there are so many to choose from!
10
Standard solutions
11
Some examples…
12
JISC
• Joint Information Systems Committee– “…to stimulate and enable the cost–effective
exploitation of information systems and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure…”
– ‘development’ not ‘research’– Funded by ‘top–slice’ from the Further and
Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
– Funds eLib, the JISC Data Centres, UKOLN, the Focus posts, DNER Programme, etc..
See www.jisc.ac.uk/See www.jisc.ac.uk/
13
eLib
• Electronic Libraries Programme• Over £15,000,000 of funding for a large number
of small/medium–size projects in three Phases– Plus supporting work such as the MODELS workshops
– Access to Network Resources (the Subject Gateways)– e.g. www.sosig.ac.uk/
– Training services (e.g. Netskills), Pre–print services, etc..
See www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/See www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/
See www.ariadne.ac.uk/See www.ariadne.ac.uk/
14
The D… N… what?
Distributed National Electronic Resource• Policy aspiration of the Joint Information
Systems Committee• Intended to provide greater access to JISC’s
Current Content Collection– RDN– AHDS– MIMAS, EDINA, BIDS/Ingenta, Data Archive– EDUSERVE– COPAC– eLib projects
etc.
See www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/ See www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/
15
Building the DNER
Construction of various Portals to facilitate user–centric access• ‘JISC Portal’ ?• Data Centre Portals (EDINA, MIMAS…)• Subject Portals (the RDN, ADS, etc.)• Data Type Portals (images, movies, sound…)• Institutional Portals (a Hybrid Library?)• Personal Portals (Paul’s web!)
Also providing other access to discrete resources.
See www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/ See www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/
16
Building the DNER
See www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/ See www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/
• Z39.50 as the ‘glue’• Thus, JISC funding of Bath Profile development, working
closely with NLC and others around the world
• Also looking at Open Archives model• Technical Standards document in preparation by
UKOLN and JISC• will apply immediately to the projects started by a
£10,000,000 funding allocation last summer; intended to make the DNER useful for learning and teaching
• Technical requirements for contributors already written• What does an A&I service need if it wants JISC to
subscribe, etc…
17
nof–digi
• New Opportunities Fund receives money from the UK’s National Lottery• nof–digi programme committing £50,000,000
over 2–3 years to digitisation of learning materials for use in lifelong learning.
• UKOLN providing coordinated (and partially mandatory) technical guidelines across the programme, and a support service.
See www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/nof/technicalstandards.htmlSee www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/nof/technicalstandards.html
See www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/See www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/
18
Government
• 100% of government services available online by 2005• e–Envoy ensures compliance• Focus upon services• Focus upon the citizen• Focus upon the Joined Up approach• Recognition of multi–channel architecture.
See www.iagchampions.gov.uk/See www.iagchampions.gov.uk/
19
Focus on services
• Deliver services to the citizen• Services rather than resources• Not just about finding documents on a web
site• Change of address pilot now (quietly!) live;
See www.iagchampions.gov.uk/portals/address.pdfSee www.iagchampions.gov.uk/portals/address.pdf
20
Focus on the Citizen
• Move away from the ‘silo mentality’• Citizens need/want access to
information/services/resources– These exist in different parts of local and
national government, organised according to internal needs or procedures, and packaged according to particular house styles and conventions
– None of which helps the citizen who just wants a new wheely bin.
21
Recognise a multi–channel future
• The web is not the only game in town…• Mobile phones/ WAP• PDAs• Digital TV• Telephone call centres• One stop shop drop–in centres• High street information kiosks• The Post Office/ Banks• Traditional access mechanisms
• So… create content once for near–automated repackaging and repurposing• XML Schema/ XSL, etc… .