1. UKOLN is supported by: Future-proofing the Technology – Addressing the Challenge Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Collaboration for Sustainability Conference Bath, October 2004. www.bath.ac.uk a centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk

2. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 20042 Overview 1.Exploring the Global Knowledge Space 2.Interoperability, infrastructure & standards 3.Digital preservation & digital curation 4.Supporting the community 5.Closing remarks

3. 1. Exploring the Global Knowledge Space

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9. 2. Interoperability, infrastructure & standards

10. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200410 The Life Cycle Approach Creation Management Collection development Access Repackaging

11. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200411 Towards a common infrastructure? e-Learning Framework –Technical Framework to support E-Learning http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/frameworks/index.html 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/ Virtual Research Environment –Framework options e.g. CHEF, Chandler, SAKAI, ?? Common Information Environment –A cross-sectoral vision –Demonstrators –Ariadne article http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/miller/

12. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200412 The E-Learning Framework (ELF)

13. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200413 JISC Information Environment architecture

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15. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200415 Standards, standards, standards Z39.50 SRW OAI RSS DC METS MPEG7 MPEG DIDL UDDI WSDL SOAP …. JPEG GIF UK LOM Core WSRP URI DOI OWL HTTP VRML SMIL XHTML RDF …..

16. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200416 Why advocate a standards culture? Open standards Maximise access –Platforms and delivery channels –Widest range of users Avoid proprietary lock-in –Vendor independent Integrate with other initiatives –eLearning e.g. Curriculum Online Economic benefits –Delivering value-for-money –Return-on-investment Ensure long-term availability of digital assets –Digital preservation and curation

17. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200417 A few words about metadata Resources –Digital –Physical –Item-level –Collection-level Services –Human-mediated –m2m –Common –Domain-specific Functions –Discovery –Management –Preservation & curation Metadata schema –e.g. Dublin Core, UK LOM Core, METS Application profiles Schema registries –Publication –Mapping

18. 3. Digital preservation & digital curation

19. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200419 Why advocate a digital preservation / curation policy? Long-term access to digital assets Preservation approaches –Emulation, migration –LOCKSS –Universal Virtual Computer OAIS reference model Preservation metadata Provenance Persistent identifiers

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22. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200422 Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ Providing a range of services Help-desk Curation manual Professional training materials Research & development agendas Outreach & Community Support

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24. 4. Supporting the community

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27. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200427 Technical Standards & Guidelines Document origins and influence –JISC Information Environment architecture –e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) Life-cycle approach –Creation, management, collection development, access, repackaging Vocabulary –must, should, may Revisions –New standards –New guidelines on implementation –Latest version February 2003 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/

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30. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200430 Reporting & Compliance Working in partnership with BECTa Compliance monitoring service Quarterly reporting process –Validation against published standards e.g. accessibility, (X)HTML conformance –Difficult to assess all aspects –Valid reasons e.g. immature standards, lack of tools, cost of implementation –Document with migration strategy Project sign-off –Pragmatic advice & recommendations Estimated >85% compliance

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33. 5. Closing remarks

34. Collaboration for Sustainability Conference 200434 Observations Evolving technical landscape Big issues –Semantic interoperability –Persistent identifiers Awareness of new developments –e.g. NISO VIEWS Initiative Embedding standards (and skills) Integrating within the workflow Interoperability and innovation: a delicate balance

35. Thank you.