1. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: Think Digital: A Whirlwind Tour of Good Practice Resources Marieke Guy Interoperability Focus www.bath.ac.uk

2. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 2 TASI - The Technical Advisory Service for Images JISC funded service (HE/FE facing) Based at University of Bristol Provides: –Advice documents –Resources e.g. toolbox, potential funding, metadata, recommended books, glossary, image collections –Enquiry Service –Training –Mailing list –Consultancy TASI

3. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 3 TASI http://www.tasi.ac.uk/

4. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 4 http://ahds.ac.uk/ Advises on best practice in creating digital resources Collects, preserves and disseminates digital resources for teaching and learning use. Specialists centres for archaeology; history; literature and languages; visual arts and performing arts – expertise covers all data types and formats are covered First point of contact is Executive office at King’s College London – info@ahds.ac.uk Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)

5. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 5 Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) 14 Detailed Guides to Good Practice (http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/) Around 10 more general Information Papers (http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/information-papers/) Around 20 Case studies illustrating best practice (http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/case-studies) Also information on copyright Mailing list, telephone help service Advice all freely available

6. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 6 AHDS http://www.ahds.ac.uk/

7. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 7 GPG GPG - Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services Originally created by UKOLN as part of the NOF-digitise programme Sections on: –Management Processes –Handling and Delivering Digital Resources –Digital Curation –Publicity and Marketing Could be expanded for the community

8. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 8 GPG http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/gpg/

9. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 9 HEDS Higher Education Digitisation Service Based at University of Hertfordshire Serves higher education, museums, galleries, public and national libraries, archives and other not-for-profit organisation Provides: –Advice, the free First Response Service –Consultancy –Complete production service for digitisation and digital library development

10. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 10 HEDS http://heds.herts.ac.uk/

11. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 11 QA Focus JISC-funded project to support JISC's digital library programme Supports QA development which help ensure deliverables are usable and interoperable Quality Control (QC): Fixing errors Quality Assurance (QA): Documented policies, procedures for monitoring compliance, workflow processes, Audit trails QA Focus Deliverables: –Surveys and case studies –Advisory documents, policy documents and FAQs –Descriptions of tools –Self-assessment toolkit

12. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 12 QA Focus MG http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/

13. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 13 Digitisation Organisations Visual Resources Association (VRA) http://vraweb.org/ The International Imaging Industry Association http://www.i3a.org/ BAPLA- British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies http://www.bapla.org/ Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation (MINERVA) http://www.minervaeurope.org NINCH http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

14. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 14 JISC Services #1 The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/ Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) http://www.cetis.ac.uk/ The UK Data Archive (UKDA) http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ EDINA http://www.edina.ac.uk/ JISCinfoNet http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/ JISCmail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

15. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 15 JISC Services #2 JISC Legal Information Service http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ The Managing Agent and Advisory Service for Moving Pictures and Sound (MAAS) http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/maas/ Manchester Information & Associated Services (MIMAS) http://www.mimas.ac.uk/ Netskills http://www.netskills.ac.uk/ open source software advisory service (OSS Watch) http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Plagiarism Advisory Service http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/

16. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 16 JISC Services #3 The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ TechDis http://www.techdis.ac.uk/ Techlearn http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techlearn_home.html TechWatch http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_home UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Video Technology Advisory Service (VTAS) http://www.video.ja.net/

17. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 17 Web Standards World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) http://www.ietf.org/ ECMA International http://www.ecma-international.org/ W3C CSS Validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

18. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 18 Web site Checking NetMechanic http://www.netmechanic.com/ Doctor HTML http://www.doctor-html.com/ Bobby http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en WAVE http://wave.webaim.org/ W3C HTML Validation Service http://validator.w3.org/ Link Popularity http://www.linkpopularity.com/ Browser Emulator http://www.dejavu.org/

19. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 19 Metadata Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://dublincore.org/ Art and Architecture Thesaurus http://www.getty.edu/ MARC Standards http://www.loc.gov/marc/ W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Open Archives Initiative (OAI) http://www.openarchives.org/ UKOLN Metadata pages http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/ Metadata Encoding and Transmission standard (METS) http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

20. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 20 Intellectual Property Rights The Copyright Licensing Agency http://www.cla.co.uk Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) http://www.dacs.co.uk/ PADI - Intellectual property rights management http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/28.html Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/ Copyleft? http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html Athens Access Management Systems http://www.athens.ac.uk/ Information Commissioner's Office http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/

21. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 21 Preservation Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ Cedars (CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars Digital Information Office http://dio.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ Digital Preservation Project http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/digpres/ National Preservation Office (NPO) http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/npo.html OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/

22. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 22 Public Sector Organisations The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) http://www.mla.gov.uk/ Art Libraries Society http://www.arlis.org.uk/ British Library http://www.bl.uk/ The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) http://www.cilip.org.uk/ Museum Documentation Association (MDA) - http://www.mda.org.uk/ Research Libraries Group (RLG) http://www.rlg.org/

23. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 23 Standards Organisations Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) http://www.cie.co.at/ International Standards Organisation (ISO) http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) http://www.niso.org/

24. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 24 Toolkits TASI Toolbox http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/toolbox.html QA Focus http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/toolkit/ Dublin Core http://au.dublincore.org/tools/ RLG Tools for Digital Imaging http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=408 DCC Tools http://www.dcc.ac.uk/tools/digital-curation-tools/ NEMLAC http://www.nemlac.co.uk/nemlac/page.php3?375

25. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk 25 Any Questions?