Title: JISC Information Environment: The Big Picture
1JISC Information Environment The Big Picture
- INF11 Start-Up Meeting for 12/08 and JISCRI
Projects, Leicester, July 2009
Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC
2About JISC
- JISC delivers its mission through
- innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure,
services and practice that support institutions
in meeting their mission - promoting the development, uptake and effective
use of ICT to support learning and teaching - promoting the development, uptake and effective
use of ICT to support research - promoting the development, uptake and effective
use of ICT within institutions and in support of
their management - developing and implementing a programme to
support institutions' engagement with the wider
community - continuing to improve its own working practices
3Information Environment Work What are we aiming
to do?
- Build a layer of scholarly content
- Develop/promote curation and preservation
infrastructure - Identify/provide infrastructure for access to
content services - Provide guidelines technical, policy,
organisational - to support teaching, learning and research
- within UK FE/HE
4Who is we?
- JISC Innovation Group
- Information Environment
- E-Content
- E-Research
- E-Learning
- Within the Community
- Funded Projects
- Institutions
- JISC Services
- Edina and Mimas
- UKOLN, CETIS and OSS Watch
- Advisory Services
- JISC Collections
5Why do we all need to work together?
- Example Research Information Management
6Research information management
Funder
Institution
Projects
Outputs
People
7Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
8Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
9Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
10Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
11Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
12Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
HEFCE (REF, HESA)
13Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
HEFCE (REF, HESA)
NAMES
Juliet
14Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
HEFCE (REF, HESA)
NAMES
Juliet
Web of Science
15Why do we all need to work together?
- Example Research Information Management
- Its a shared problem
- Its important
- Its complicated
- Its expensive
- therefore
- Its worth us finding out how to do it better
16How do we do it better?
- Cue the Information Environment
- Is it a
- shared architecture?
- national infrastructure?
- standards framework?
- community of practice?
- programme of work?
- set of services?
- set of principles?
17Concepts
- Mainly concerned with discovery to delivery
(D2D), preservation, and the curation of
resources - Verbs associated with the IE create, publish,
manage, curate, preserve, locate, request,
access, use - Includes
- Architecture
- Standards and specifications
- Projects
- Services
- A distributed infrastructure for UK higher
education to allow easy access to information and
to help provide services to curate that
information.
18Architectures
were already thinking about IE3.0 but we dont
yet know what it will look like!
19Example Open Educational Resources
20Areas of Interest
Research Information Management
Library Services
Repositories
Discovery
Preservation
Research Communications
(Rapid) innovation
Shared infrastructure
Advice Guidance
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25Projects in the IE what it means
- We expect projects to get involved in
- Identifying issues of shared concern
- Identifying and describing good practice
- Developing policies and practices within and
across institutions - Sharing knowledge about technologies and
standards - Implementing, building, trialling, testing,
piloting software - Agreeing to play a part in the bigger picture
EXAMPLE
26Example Building Coherence in Repositories (1)
- 1. Establish and publicly express a preservation
policy for the content held by the repository.
Integrate that repository preservation policy
with any wider institutional activity on
preservation, and promote such activity. A recent
JISC report offers tools to help with this
process Digital Preservation Policies Study. - 2. Ensure that usage data are available for
material held in the repository perhaps by
installing Google Analytics (although other,
perhaps more appropriate, methods are also
available). Where possible, appropriate aggregate
data should be publicly available. Raw server log
files should also be preserved for as long as
possible, for later analysis. - 3. Ensure that, for each item in the repository,
there is a clear expression of the permissions
granted to users (both human users and other
computers), which can be harvested with the item.
Where possible, this expression should be
machine-readable, for example, those as are
available for Creative Commons licences. - 4. Make a clear decision about the right
item-level metadata to expose for each content
type held, depending (for example) on the mission
of the repository, the cost/benefits of creating
metadata, relevant practice elsewhere (for
example, major subject-based repositories) and
the types of reuse anticipated of the material
being shared. Expose the resulting metadata
policy (including reference to any schema used)
in both human and machine readable forms in a
widely accepted, standard way. - Where that decision includes a commitment to
expose item-level metadata relating to the
version of the item, to use the Version
Identification Framework.
27Example Building Coherence in Repositories (2)
- 5. For repositories holding open access research
papers - check their policies against the OpenDOAR policy
tool and, as a result, expose policies in a
machine-readable form so ensure OAI-PMH is
configured to enable policy description to be
included in the repository response to the
OAI-PMH Identify request, and that this is used
to expose the policy descriptions. - check their practice against the DRIVER
Guidelines 2.0, run their repository against the
DRIVER validator tool, and make (and document)
reasonable efforts to attain a high score. - include fields for research funder and grant
number, and advocate use of these for those
outputs that are the result of specific grant
funding. Note that the Research Councils would
hope to harvest and make use of this information.
NERC, ESRC and EPSRC have offered to make their
grant data available, which might help depositors
and/or repositories populate these fields. See
paragraph 203 in the Call for Proposals. - 6. Document the results of the above activities,
alongside basic information such as OAI-PMH base
URL and any available RSS feeds, in a simple
human-readable webpage about the repository - From Briefing Document for the Information
Environment Grant Funding Call 12/08 Strand A
Calls
28The Big Picture Be Part of It
- Information Environment 2009-2011 is a rolling
programme - Projects all different shapes, sizes and lengths
- You are doing all sorts of work analysis,
software development, testing, implementation,
embedding, skills development and embedding and
more - Every project has a part to play even the
smallest project can have a big impact - Ask the question. You If there were easy answers
you wouldnt be getting special funding! - Make contact with people beyond your project use
them for expertise, peer support, feedback,
testing, sense-checking, collaboration,
consensus-building
29At a glance
30JISC Information Environment The Big Picture
- INF11 Start-Up Meeting for 12/08 and JISCRI
Projects, Leicester, July 2009
Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC