UKOLN is supported by: Introduction to UKOLN Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Grand Challenge Meeting, June a centre of expertise in digital information management

Grand Challenge Meeting, June About UKOLN “a centre of expertise in digital information management” Funding –Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) + Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA) –Portfolio of R&D projects 27+ staff Inform the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities –Policy and advisory role at national level –Build innovative Web-based systems & services –Research and development –Dissemination: –e-journal Ariadne –Events: ECDL 2004

Grand Challenge Meeting, June Common Information Environment Supporting cross-sectoral engagement MLA JISC British Library NHS Culture Online DFES Becta eGov Unit eScience UKOLN

Grand Challenge Meeting, June Infrastructure + IIE Building shared services for the IIE –Informing strategic development –Demonstrators and prototypes –IE Service Registry –IE Metadata Schemas Registry –A common framework? Embedding open standards –Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) UK Affiliate Managing Agent –W3C representative –OAI Technical Committee –NISO MetaSearch Reviewing approaches to Resource Discovery Digital repositories study

Grand Challenge Meeting, June eLearning activities Collaboration with CETIS Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards –Technical Framework to support e-Learning (ELF) –Shaping an approach to Persistent Identifiers Partnership with Resource Discovery Network and Learning & Teaching Support Network –Enable greater records sharing –Shared vocabularies Advising Jorum+ learning object repository team Facilitating interoperability with digital libraries (IMS) Developing eLearning tools (GroupLog Project) Supporting the FE community –Regional Support Centres workshops: RSC Wales, RSC SE

Grand Challenge Meeting, June eResearch activities JISC Committee for the Support of Research Facilitating knowledge transfer –Digital library, computer science and disciplinary communities –National eScience Centre / UKOLN workshops Developing Virtual Research Environments (VRE) Supporting the arts & humanities AHRC expert group Digital Curation Centre partner Changing nature of scholarly communications Research and development projects: eBank UK The scholarly knowledge cycle. Liz Lyon, eBankUK article. Ariadne, July 2003.

Grand Challenge Meeting, June Learning & Teaching workflows Research & e-Science workflows Aggregator services: national, commercial Repositories : institutional, e-prints, subject, data, learning objects Institutional presentation services: portals, Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses, modules Harvesting metadata Data creation / capture / gathering: laboratory experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media Resource discovery, linking, embedding Deposit / self- archiving Peer-reviewed publications: journals, conference proceedings Publication Validation Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling Resource discovery, linking, embedding Deposit / self- archiving Learning object creation, re-use Searching, harvesting, embedding Quality assurance bodies Validation Presentation services: subject, media-specific, data, commercial portals Resource discovery, linking, embedding

Grand Challenge Meeting, June eBank UK: building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning” JISC-funded from September 2003 Phase 2 February 2005 UKOLN at the University of Bath (lead), University of Southampton, University of Manchester “Exemplar: e-Science testbed ‘Combechem’ –Grid-enabled combinatorial chemistry –Crystallography, laser and surface chemistry examples –Development of an e-Lab using pervasive computing technology –National Crystallography Service Resource Discovery Network / PSIgate physical sciences portal

Grand Challenge Meeting, June Advisory & support roles Institutions and the community –Focus posts: Web, Interoperability –Promoting best practice, briefing papers –Creative Commons, collaborative technologies, mobile working –Resource Discovery Network technical support & development –Events: Institutional Web Managers Conference –Dissemination: Ariadne e-Journal JISC Executive, Development Team, Services –International Frameworks activity –Information Environment technical advisory role –Digital repository support posts –Events: JISC/CNI Conference Museums Libraries & Archives Council –Peoples Network Service –Collection Description work

Grand Challenge Meeting, June Strategic partnerships Collaborative and cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) : forum eGovernment Unit : eGovernment Metadata Standard RCUK : Policy for Scientific Publications National eScience Centre : knowledge transfer British Library : staff development lectures Digital Preservation Coalition : Current Awareness Bulletin JISC/NSF : strategic discussions EU Delos Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries : Knowledge Extraction & Semantic Interoperability cluster

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