Over the Shoulder

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Over the Shoulder

• Derek Law

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Prescience

• The WWW is clearly an important tool for many
  applications and is expected to be so for some
  years to come
• (AGOCG, 1995)

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The 1991 Agenda Teaching

• Specifying a student computer to extend ownership
• The virtual laboratory
• Software and courseware provision
• Student support
• Information site licences

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The 1991 Agenda Research

• Information filtering and navigation tools
• Training in information management
• Site licenses
• Working with publishers on new models

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The 1991 Agenda Administration

• The MAC Initiative
• Shared data with Europe
• Paper free financial transactions
• Training of staff
• Acceptance of e-mail

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The 1991 Agenda Academic Services

• Convergence or not
• Shifting resource into support as students start
  to use IT
• Dropping unit of resource
• Bandwidth (the 300 baud modem)
• Standards
• Information Strategies

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The (J)ISC Agenda

• Information strategies
• Datasets policy development
• A Libraries Initiative
• Infrastructure to support teaching and learning
• Electronic document delivery
• IPR
• SuperJANET rollout to some universities

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Conclusion
The function of the expert is not to be more
right than other people, But to be wrong for
more sophisticated reasons

(David Butler, 1969)
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Infrastructure we got right - and wrong

• RIGHT
• BIDS, UKOLN, COPAC, AHDS, BUBL, EEVL, EDINA,
  MIMAS, National Cache, Mailbase, ATHENS, HENSA,
  CHEST, BUFVC, Ariadne
• International Co-operation CNI, NSF, Oz
• WRONG TIMING
• ROADS, Resource Discovery, National Site
  Licensing, OAI, HENSA, BUBL
• RIGHT QUESTION WRONG ANSWER
• AGOCG, Database Resources Research Group
• NESLI

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The Right Five Principles

• Free at the point of use
• Subscription not transaction based
• Universality of disciplines
• Universality of levels
• Commonality of interfaces
• Common mass instruction programmes

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Right Attitude
The intention is to initiate and drive change,
to shape the dialogue and debate NOT simply
to respond to change.

Brindley and Law, 1997
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To Do List

• Skype and VoIP
• Shibbolleth
• OAI
• E-science and E-collection strategy
• IPR
• Location Independent Working
• Continue international activity
• Images

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