CURL Members Meeting

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Library futures in the new research
landscape. Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of
Bath, UK CURL Members Meeting October 2004,
London.
UKOLN is supported by
www.bath.ac.uk
www.ukoln.ac.uk
a centre of expertise in digital information
management
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Overview

• eResearch an evolving landscape
• Scholarly communications linking to learning
• How do you your libraries shape up?
• Meeting the challenge new skills, new roles?

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1. eResearch an evolving landscape
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Hurricane Jeanne strikes Florida. September 26,
2004
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Ferrari 156 F1 from 1961
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• Access Grid
• Collaborative telematic art
• Modify spaces for performers
• Interplay Hallucinations

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Towards a common infrastructure?

• JISC Information Environment
• Technical architecture based on open standards
  (Web Services, OAI-PMH, Z39.50, RSS..)
  http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie
  /arch/
• e-Learning Framework (ELF)
• Technical Framework to support E-Learning
  http//www.cetis.ac.uk/members/frameworks/index.ht
  ml
• Virtual Research Environment
• VRE Roadmap
• Framework options e.g. CHEF, Chandler, SAKAI
• Service-oriented approaches

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e-Research trends summary

• Increasingly dataintensive, quantitative
• Implementing new science
• Inter-disciplinary
• New disciplines e.g. Astro-informatics
• New skills requirements
• IT statistics domain
• Collaborative
• Service-oriented architecture
• Highly distributed resources
• Knowledge discovery / extraction
• A changing landscape of scholarly communications

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2. Scholarly communications linking to learning
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It is envisaged that the sharing of primary data
would prevent unnecessary repetition of
experiments and enable scientists to build
directly on each others work, creating greater
efficiencies and productivity in the research
process.
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Presentation services subject, media-specific,
data, commercial portals
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Data creation / capture / gathering laboratory
experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media
The scholarly knowledge cycle. Liz Lyon, eBankUK
article. Ariadne, July 2003.
Aggregator services national, commercial
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling
Harvestingmetadata
Research e-Science workflows
Repositories institutional,
e-prints, subject, data, learning objects
Deposit / self-archiving
Validation
Validation
Publication
Linking
Peer-reviewed publications journals, conference
proceedings
Data curation databases databanks
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Presentation services subject, media-specific,
data, commercial portals
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Aggregator services national, commercial
Learning object creation, re-use
Harvestingmetadata
Learning Teaching workflows
Repositories institutional,
e-prints, subject, data, learning objects
Institutional presentation services portals,
Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses,
modules
Deposit / self-archiving
Validation
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Validation
Peer-reviewed publications journals, conference
proceedings
Quality assurance bodies
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Presentation services subject, media-specific,
data, commercial portals
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Data creation / capture / gathering laboratory
experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media
Aggregator services national, commercial
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling
Learning object creation, re-use
Harvestingmetadata
Learning Teaching workflows
Research e-Science workflows
Repositories institutional,
e-prints, subject, data, learning objects
Institutional presentation services portals,
Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses,
modules
Deposit / self-archiving
Deposit / self-archiving
Validation
Validation
Publication
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Validation
Linking
Peer-reviewed publications journals, conference
proceedings
Quality assurance bodies
Data curation databases databanks
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Presentation services subject, media-specific,
data, commercial portals
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Data creation / capture / gathering laboratory
experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling
Learning object creation, re-use
Aggregator services eBank UK
Harvestingmetadata
Learning Teaching workflows
Research e-Science workflows
Repositories institutional,
e-prints, subject, data, learning objects
Institutional presentation services portals,
Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses,
modules
Deposit / self-archiving
Deposit / self-archiving
Validation
Validation
Publication
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Validation
Linking
Peer-reviewed publications journals, conference
proceedings
Quality assurance bodies
Data curation databases databanks
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eBank UK linking research data learning

• JISC-funded from September 2003
• UKOLN (lead), University of Southampton,
  University of Manchester
• Exemplar e-Science testbed Combechem
• Grid-enabled combinatorial chemistry
• Development of an e-Lab using pervasive computing
  technology
• National Crystallography Service
• Resource Discovery Network / PSIgate physical
  sciences portal
• Demonstrator available
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/

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The digital repository
ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk Acknowledgement Simon
Coles
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Linking to publications
Acknowledgement Simon Coles
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eBank embedded in a science portal
Acknowledgement Simon Coles
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eBank Phase 2 linking to learning

• Embedding in e-Learning processes
• Evaluating the pedagogical benefits
• MChem course
• Chemical informatics course

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3. How do you your libraries shape up?
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STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
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STRENGTHS Scholarly communications role Links
with academic community Content / collection
management / stewardship activities Cataloguing
classification expertise Service delivery
WEAKNESSES Document / textual traditions Uneasy
relationship between physical digital
worlds Limited technical skills Cautious approach
to innovation Narrow vision (its not our
problem.)
THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
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STRENGTHS Scholarly communications role Links
with academic community Content / collection
management / stewardship activities Cataloguing
classification expertise Service delivery
WEAKNESSES Document / textual traditions Uneasy
relationship between physical digital
worlds Limited technical skills Cautious approach
to innovation Narrow vision (its not our
problem.)
THREATS Paradigm shift in research will out-pace
change in libraries Researchers will (only?) use
on-demand eServices Libraries will lose their
role in scholarly communications and eResearch
workflows
OPPORTUNITIES Build on ePrints work eLearning
experience Exploit links with academic
departments Researchers need your skills Seek
funding to engage in innovative projects
services
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4. Meeting the challenge new skills, new roles?
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STRENGTHS Scholarly communications role Links
with academic community Content / collection
management / stewardship activities Cataloguing
classification expertise Service delivery
WEAKNESSES Document / textual traditions Uneasy
relationship between physical digital
worlds Limited technical skills Cautious approach
to innovation Narrow vision (its not our
problem.)
THREATS Paradigm shift in research will out-pace
change in libraries Researchers will (only?) use
on-demand eServices Libraries will lose their
role in scholarly communications and eResearch
workflows
OPPORTUNITIES Build on ePrints work eLearning
experience Exploit links with academic
departments Researchers need your skills Seek
funding to engage in innovative projects
services
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Facing the future?

• Review organisational structures
• Greater collaboration with Computing Services
• Extend the Faculty / Subject Librarian role
• Promote Professional Development
• Awareness-raising activities
• Plugging the skills gap
• Engagement and (hybrid) roles
• Deliver eServices
• Institutional digital asset management
• We do eLearning so why not eResearch?
• Develop leadership and vision
• Facilitate Transformational Change

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Thank you.

• UKOLN receives funding from the Joint Information
  Systems Committee (JISC) and the Museums,
  Libraries Archives Council (MLA) and is based
  at the University of Bath.