1. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Shared Infrastructure Services Review Rosemary Russell UKOLN University of Bath Email R.Russell@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is supported by: 25 October 2006 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting, London

2. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Contents What are shared infrastructure services? What we did Report content Shared infrastructure services planning/ development

3. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk What are shared infrastructure services? a range of … network services that are called on by content providers, brokers, aggregators, indexes, catalogues and portals. Infrastructure services include authentication, authorisation, service registry, user preferences, resolver, institutional profile, metadata schema registry and terminology services. Name changed to Shared Infrastructure Services in order to emphasise its about services that operate as underlying machine-to-machine (M2M) shared services

4. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk JISC IE architecture

5. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Overview UKOLN commissioned by JISC with contributions by consultants Review started May 2006 First draft & workshop end June Near-final report July Final report September:

6. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk What we did Developed a set of scenarios that demonstrate how and why shared infrastructure is required Synthesised the outcomes of effort to date, from JISC activities and the wider context Identified requirements for the next stage International and commercial context Identified risks Report - included direction-setting recommendations

7. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Report content JISC IE architecture & e-Framework for Education and Research Digital Policy Management (DRM…) Scenarios Personalisation Repositories Status report - JISC projects & related initiatives: Identifier services and open linking Representation Information Registries Format Registries Managing Digital Resources/licencing Service Registries & CD Metadata Schema Registries Institutional Profiling Services Terminology Services Name Authority

8. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Shared infrastructure services development Emphasis on building infrastructure JISC Circular 04/06: Repositories and Preservation Programme includes work packages based on review recommendations Also Ongoing funding for infrastructure services… … once deployed, where JISC is provider eg JANET model may involve strategic partnerships for funding