SPEIR

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SPEIR

• .developing the Scottish Co-operative
  Infrastructure
• Dennis Nicholson, Director, CDLR

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What is SPEIR?

• Some answers
• Scottish Portals for Education, Information, and
  research
• Scots for to ask or to enquire
• A SLIC-funded CoSMiC initiative backed by key
  players in Scotland (including some from FE)
• An inclusive, holistic, safe path for everyone
  interested in developing an effective Scottish,
  globally-interoperable, information environment
• A rope? A snake? A tree?
• Still hazy after all these years
• Scottish Cooperative Infrastructure

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Co-operative Infrastructure
Various user nodes
SCONE collections database with staff CCM
tools/ landscape control --- Future
SCAN integration?
CAIRNS cross searchable catalogue with
landscaping mechanism driven by collections datab
ase
COSMIC co-ordinates
Our Portal
various activities including
Other Portals
Metadata Issues Items, Collections
Joint RD Plan
So we can all join in
CORC
CCCG
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SPEIR bits

• Build on CAIRNS, SCONE, SCAMP, dynamic
  landscaping, BUBL LINK, SLAINTE and BUBL
• Bring in Public Libraries, FE, Cultural Players
• Central support services for distributed portals
  particularly Scottish Cultural Portal but aim
  is generic support (GDL, NLS also one key here)
• Dynamic landscaping of various kinds e.g. for
  different users, different badging (LINK and BUBL
  and SLAINTE and GDL)
• Collaborative cataloguing through Connexion
• Collaborative collecting through SCAMP
• GDL, BUBL LINK, BUBL-SLAINTE

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SPEIR bits

• Terminology requirements for Public libraries
• Terminologies pilot requirements
• CoSMiC dimensions (groups)
• Interoperability Focus for Scotland
• Integration with services such as SCRAN
• Identification of digital and non-digital
  collections relevant to the CP and SCONE
• LOOK, and CERL (Consortium of European Research
  Libraries)
• A project that will turn the current Scottish
  Co-operative Infrastructure into a more developed
  and more effective form

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Projected Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure
Feb. 03
Various user nodes
Global links Cross domain Scone
SCAN Museums Resource JISC IE LOOK CERL
COSMIC co-ordination
Portal Support
Support Services
CAIRNS
CoSMiC Task Group
Interoperability Standards
Cultural Portal
SCONE
CORC
HaIRST
Regional, Sectoral, SI Groups
GDL-like Portals
SDDL
SCAMP(2)
Pub-Lib Portals
Landscaper
Online LIS Support via SLAINTE/BUBL Mini-clump
Joint RD Plan
SCAMP(1)
Scotslink WIDWISAWN
Other Portals
NLS
etc Sapiens Authentication Terminologies
SLIC
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Still hazy

• Missing links?
• You tell us
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• The CoSMiC RD plan
• Projects database
• WIDWISAWN
• Scotslink

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Why?

• Users increasingly use/need distributed
  resources, finding tools so co-operation now
  essential as well as desirable
• Distributed networked collections need
  collaborative management
• Coherent distributed virtual libraries wont
  just happen we must co-operate to manage
  retrieval/user environments
• Users/organisations need own portals
• People interoperability a pre-requisite of
  technical and metadata interoperability

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Why?

• Only a holistic approach will work
• We increasingly inhabit the distributed networked
  environment, so do our users
• Need to change working perspectives, to Think
  globally before acting locally.
• Institutional and other boundaries are becoming a
  barrier to providing what users need
• It matters EIR portals have a role in social
  inclusion and cohesion
• Only an inclusive approach can work (a) Users
  (b) Players

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Why?

• One Vision, infinite views
• For Scotland
• The Scottish Global Village
• Small but beautifully formed
• Put your own house in order before you invite the
  world
• For A Jock Tamsons bairns

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How to connect?

• Further Information
• http//cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects.html
• http//speir.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
• http//cosmic.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
• Scotslink_at_jiscmail.ac.uk
• d.m.nicholson_at_strath.ac.uk