Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop

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Information Environment and Digital Repositories
Workshop

• WWW 2006 Pre-Conference Workshop
• W

Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research
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Digital Repositories

• Neil Jacobs

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Users and content
content
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Users and content
content
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Complexity
research practice and workflow
learning design
business models
file sharing
rights management
search
browse
evaluation tools
registries of file formats
quality control
registries of terminology
security
terminology
version control
metadata
registries of content
content
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Digital Repositories in the Information
Environment
Glue
Permanent storage
Content sources
Aggregators
User / client / desktop / applications
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Digital Repositories in the Information
Environment
Glue
Permanent storage
Content sources
Aggregators
User / client / desktop / applications
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Digital Repositories in the Information
Environment
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Digital Repositories in the Information
Environment
Open standards and agreements on
object syntax (schema)
exchange syntax (protocol)
semantics
roles and responsibilities
rights
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Digital Repositories in the Information
Environment
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Interoperability standards

• Neil Jacobs

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Discovery To Delivery

• Aims and Objectives
• Create technical conditions required for
  interoperability for resource discovery and
  access to resources held in repositories.
  Projects will need to look at different object
  and media types and the associated priority
  areas
• Document Markup, such as DTDs
• Metadata Application Profiles
• Associated cataloguing rules
• Persistent Identifiers
• Federated access management
• Aspects of semantic interoperability

Thanks Balviar Notay
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Cultural change

• Neil Jacobs

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Cultural change - lessons from previous and
current work /1

• Publishing practices
• Eprints publishers, peer review, rights, etc
• Learning materials only model is text books
• Institutional practices
• E-theses changing PhD submission
• Eprints departmental practice / research
  assessment
• Learning materials competitive aspect to
  content?
• Getting users to deposit
• Learning materials sharing, credit,
  preservation
• Eprints advocacy, citation advantage,
  Sherpa/RoMEO

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Cultural change - lessons from previous and
current work /2

• Embedding resources
• In portals, VLEs, research environments, links to
  other institutional systems and processes
• Sharing resources
• Differences between subjects, disciplines,
  learning communities
• For further information, see JISC website,
  especially FAIR, X4L and Digital
  Repositories programmes.