Title: SPEIR
1SPEIR
- .developing the Scottish Co-operative
Infrastructure - Dennis Nicholson, Director, CDLR
2What 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
3Co-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
4SPEIR 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
5SPEIR 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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7Projected 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
8Still hazy
- Missing links?
- You tell us
- Sign up today!
- The CoSMiC RD plan
- Projects database
- WIDWISAWN
- Scotslink
9Why?
- 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
10Why?
- 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
11Why?
- 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
12How 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