A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: Think Digital: A Whirlwind Tour of Good Practice Resources Marieke Guy Interoperability Focus

A centre of expertise in digital information management 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

A centre of expertise in digital information management 3 TASI

A centre of expertise in digital information management 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 – Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)

A centre of expertise in digital information management 5 Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) 14 Detailed Guides to Good Practice ( Around 10 more general Information Papers ( Around 20 Case studies illustrating best practice ( Also information on copyright Mailing list, telephone help service Advice all freely available

A centre of expertise in digital information management 6 AHDS

A centre of expertise in digital information management 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

A centre of expertise in digital information management 8 GPG

A centre of expertise in digital information management 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

A centre of expertise in digital information management 10 HEDS

A centre of expertise in digital information management 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

A centre of expertise in digital information management 12 QA Focus MG

A centre of expertise in digital information management 13 Digitisation Organisations Visual Resources Association (VRA) The International Imaging Industry Association BAPLA- British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation (MINERVA) NINCH

A centre of expertise in digital information management 14 JISC Services #1 The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) The UK Data Archive (UKDA) EDINA JISCinfoNet JISCmail

A centre of expertise in digital information management 15 JISC Services #2 JISC Legal Information Service The Managing Agent and Advisory Service for Moving Pictures and Sound (MAAS) Manchester Information & Associated Services (MIMAS) Netskills open source software advisory service (OSS Watch) Plagiarism Advisory Service

A centre of expertise in digital information management 16 JISC Services #3 The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) TechDis Techlearn TechWatch UKOLN Video Technology Advisory Service (VTAS)

A centre of expertise in digital information management 17 Web Standards World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ECMA International W3C CSS Validator

A centre of expertise in digital information management 18 Web site Checking NetMechanic Doctor HTML Bobby WAVE W3C HTML Validation Service Link Popularity Browser Emulator

A centre of expertise in digital information management 19 Metadata Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Art and Architecture Thesaurus MARC Standards W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) Open Archives Initiative (OAI) UKOLN Metadata pages Metadata Encoding and Transmission standard (METS)

A centre of expertise in digital information management 20 Intellectual Property Rights The Copyright Licensing Agency Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) PADI - Intellectual property rights management Creative Commons, Copyleft? Athens Access Management Systems Information Commissioner's Office

A centre of expertise in digital information management 21 Preservation Digital Curation Centre Cedars (CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives) Digital Information Office Digital Preservation Project National Preservation Office (NPO) OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group

A centre of expertise in digital information management 22 Public Sector Organisations The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) Art Libraries Society British Library The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Museum Documentation Association (MDA) - Research Libraries Group (RLG)

A centre of expertise in digital information management 23 Standards Organisations Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) International Standards Organisation (ISO) National Information Standards Organisation (NISO)

A centre of expertise in digital information management 24 Toolkits TASI Toolbox QA Focus Dublin Core RLG Tools for Digital Imaging DCC Tools NEMLAC

A centre of expertise in digital information management 25 Any Questions?