A centre of expertise in digital information management
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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
