1. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk

2. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: Interoperability: Who Cares? Peter Cliff, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK SUETr Interoperability Workshop, The LSE Library, December 2008 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

3. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk We Are SUETr JISC Project March 2008 – March 2009 SUE projects surveyed to identify training needs Five workshops This is one of them

4. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Coming soon… Advocacy & Cultural Change 22 nd January 2009 York Embedding Repositories 10 th February 2009 Lincoln Repository Policy 18 th February 2009 Aberystwyth Increasing Usage (?) - TBA

5. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk SUETr NOT SUET!

6. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Interoperability “…is the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer. Interoperability becomes a quality of increasing importance for information technology products as the concept that “The network is the computer” becomes a reality…” whatis.com in year 2000

7. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk “…is the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer. Interoperability becomes a quality of increasing importance for information technology products as the concept that “The network is the computer” becomes a reality…” whatis.com in year 2000 Interoperability platform

8. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Put it another way… “The repository home page is over. The user doesn’t care about the institution, the collection, the academic department. They want to create, manage and discover stuff from where ever they happen to be. This means deep linking, addressable resources and linked data. This means interoperability.”

9. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk The Repository Network

10. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk The Repository Network

11. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk The Repository Network

12. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk The Repository Network REF? Reporting Tools Linkage Migration

13. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Interoperability II “…the junk which enables the people (users) to get the stuff (rich content) they want…” Paul Miller, paraphrasing Sarah Tyacke ‘Interoperability’, Ariadne Issue 24

14. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Technical Semantic Together these are the “how” and the “what” Political/Human Inter-community Legal International Types of Interoperability

15. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Technical Semantic Together these are the “how” and the “what” Political/Human Inter-community Legal International This morning… Building blocks to enable sharing

16. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Technical Semantic Together these are the “how” and the “what” Political/Human Inter-community Legal International This afternoon… Addressing fears of open access

17. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Programme 1030Introduction to SUETr & What is Interoperability? 1045Interoperability Fundamentals: RSS/Atom 1115Interoperability Fundamentals: SWORD 1145Coffee 1215Interoperability Fundamentals: OAI-PMH/ORE 1245Interoperability of enhanced publications: The DRIVER Report 1300Lunch 1400Interoperability and Stakeholders 1500“10 steps” – if you don’t learn anything but this today… 1515Final questions for all speakers/discussion 1530Finish

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