Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting Higher and Further Education DNER the fabric of learning and research DNER programme team.

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Supporting Higher and Further Education

DNERthe fabric of learning and research

DNER programme team

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DNER Vision

An integrated information environment for the further and higher education community coordinated by JISC and developed in a collaborative landscape where responsibility is shared and duplication minimised.

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Overview

• High acronymic density

• Graphically challenged

• Fanciful mixed metaphors to conclude

• Deflected questions

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(A Giddens)

The ‘third way’

• Practices are being lifted out (disembedded) from traditional context and rearticulated in a network space– Scholarly communication

– Learning and teaching

– Identity, rights, authenticity

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• Foundational/institutional change– ‘publication’

– pki

– jstor

• (Changing) management of learning and informational resources central to (changing) educational practice

• The fabric of learning and research– pool uncertainty

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What is the DNER?

• A managed collection of electronic resources– at JISC data centres, JISC services, publishers’ servers, and

beyond

– about which JISC has agreements for access by further and higher education or has badged as being of high quality for this community

• An integrated environment for service delivery– systemic coherence - supported by infrastructural services (e.g.

authentication) and allowing flexible use.

• Supported by development, promotion and other activities (JISC)

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Real service

• Understand and meet the needs of a variety of user communities

• … and develop production information services ...

• informed by R&D work.

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The DNER

• Collections

• Environment

• A development programme

• Collections policy

• Preservation strategy

• Service delivery framework

• Interoperability and architecture

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DNER ‘collections’

• Present Examples:– Archives hub

– Web of Science

– JSTOR

– Arts and Humanities primary data

– electronic journals

– Off-air recording archive

– AXIS Database

• Future Examples:– KnowUK

– AMICO

– SCRAN

– Streamed Videos e.g. for teaching surgery

– Oral history collections

– Radio and television indices with links to broadcasts

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JISC Collections Policyhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/cei/dner_colpol.html

• support learning, teaching, and research

• all types of digital information

• critical mass

• high demand collections

• unique collections

• Collections policy being revised

• Content mapping exercise

• Charging working group

• Further education - national learning network

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Images and moving images

• Image coordinator– JISC Distributed Image Service

– Managing agent

• Moving images– Managing agent and advisory service

• Value in learning

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Some issues

• Central to research and learning activity ...

• Expansion of objectives– value for money + create a culture of use

– building a comprehensive learning and research resource

– securing future access to the ‘intellectual record’

– make ‘content’ come alive in learning environments

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Some issues

• Managing a rich …

– ‘documents’

– ‘data’

– ‘scientific and cultural heritage’

– ‘instructional materials’

….and complex resource base

– information resource,

– collection,

– environment

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Issues

• Work with learning and research communities to support new behaviours in– Scholarly communication

– Learning and teaching

• Balance of distribution

• Support for exploitation

Joint Information Systems CommitteeDigital Preservation Focus

• Develop long-term retention strategy for HE/FE in UK

• Focus for development of practices, policies and strategies

• establish and manage a National Digital Preservation Coalition (NDPC)

• generate support,inter-working and collaborative funding from appropriate agencies in UK & world-wide

• disseminate and publish results and outcomes

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Service delivery

• Data centres

• AHDS, Data Archive

• RDN- subject gateways

• UK Mirror

• Cache

• Distributed projects and services

• Advisory services

• Information brandscape

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Service delivery

• Systemic coherence

• Ensure that the service framework supports this

• Articulate services – role in distributed environment

– links eg mirror, cache, resource discovery

• Articulate advisory services

• Communication and marketing strategy (with JISC Assist)

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Architectures ...

Infrastructure services

(Middleware*)

Content deliveryservices

Fusionservices

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Some issues

• Difficult!

• Hearts and minds

• Different levels of influence

• Identity, branding and loyalty

• Production services in changing environment

• Articulate interoperability framework

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DNER

• A collection with the right connections ...

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And they said ...

• “This preservation thing is a big problem.”

• “Digital IP issues are complicated.”

• “We are building legacy systems as we speak.”

• “We have more or less failed to do interoperability.”

• “One in a 7,000 year experience.”

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A development programme

• Dner infrastructure (3M)

• Enhancing the DNER for learning and teaching (10M)

• Formative evaluation integral to development

• Mechanisms to support ‘assisted take-up’ and transfer of experience and results

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A development programme (1)

• Formative evaluation (1)

• Virtual learning environments/digital libraries (4)

• Museum and archive content (5)

• Moving picture and sound content (3)

• Images and other content (5)

• Geospatial studies (2)

• Subject portals

• Enhancements to JISC services (13)

• Electronic books (1)

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A development programme (2)(further investigation)

• Satellite imagery/geospatial content

• Moving image medical content

• Image digitisation and management

• Electronic books

• Article discovery, location and delivery

• Digital libraries/mle

• Working with LTSN*

• Supporting studies

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And ...

• Utility of shared activity

• Accelerate development

• Achieve value

• Concentrate and transfer experience and expertise

• Focus for collaboration (cog)

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The fabric of learning and research

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Further Information about the DNER

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub/index.html

• email [email protected]

• Collections - [email protected]

• Images - [email protected]

• Preservation - [email protected]

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