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Title: JISC Information Environment: The Big Picture


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JISC Information Environment The Big Picture
  • INF11 Start-Up Meeting for 12/08 and JISCRI
    Projects, Leicester, July 2009

Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC
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About 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

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Information 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

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Who 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

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Why do we all need to work together?
  • Example Research Information Management

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Research information management
Funder
Institution
Projects
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research 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)
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Research 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
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Research 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
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Why 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

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How 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?

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Concepts
  • 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.

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Architectures
were already thinking about IE3.0 but we dont
yet know what it will look like!
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Example Open Educational Resources
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Areas of Interest
Research Information Management
Library Services
Repositories
Discovery
Preservation
Research Communications
(Rapid) innovation
Shared infrastructure
Advice Guidance
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Projects 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

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Example 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.

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Example 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

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The 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

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At a glance
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JISC Information Environment The Big Picture
  • INF11 Start-Up Meeting for 12/08 and JISCRI
    Projects, Leicester, July 2009

Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC
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