Divided by a common language

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Divided by a common language

• Lorcán Ó Díomásaigh

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• Meetings are informal in style and begin and end
  with social conversation. Participants are
  expected to make a contribution, if only
  questions and not necessarily in their specialist
  area.
• It is not usual for everyone to be well prepared
• Even when papers are previously distributed they
  will not always be read.
• Lack of preparation does not inhibit the passing
  of opinion and judgement.

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Overview

• Part 1 some obvious statements about scale
• Part 2 some recent areas of development
• Part 3 some conclusions

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Ohio State University

• People
• 55,233 students
• 4,522 faculty members
• 8,569 administrative and professional staff

• Programs
• 176 Undergraduate Majors
• 122 Programs Leading to the Master's
• 98 programs Leading to the Doctorate

2000/1
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Ohio State University

• IT
• Internet 2
• Distributes 1M emails a day (8 gigabytes)
• 1,350 modem lines
• 22,500 telephone lines, 14,000 lan outlets, 6,500
  cable TV outlets, 82 miles copper cabling, 70
  miles fibre, 11 miles TV coax cable
• Learning technology

• Library
• 5.5 m volumes
• 46K serials
• 13M materials budget
• 13M salaries budget

2000/1
2002
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OSU
USA and UK top 20 library budgets 98/99
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Lever of collective action

• UK
• Public funding
• Great leverage from funneled funding
• Visibility and national scope
• Continuity between consensus making, funding and
  operational capacity

• US
• Dispersed and intermittently connected consensus
  making, funding and operational capacity

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Part 2 coevolving in a shared network space
Research and learning
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Cyberinfrastructure report recommends

• New INITIATIVE to revolutionize science and
  engineering research at NSF and worldwide to
  capitalize on new computing and communications
  opportunities
• 21st Century Cyberinfrastructure includes
  supercomputing, but also massive storage,
  networking, software, collaboration,
  visualization, and human resources
• Current centers (NCSA, SDSC, PSC) are a key
  resource
• Budget estimate incremental 650M/year
  (continuing)

Revolutionizing science and engineering through
cyberinfrastructurereport of the NSF blue ribbon
advisory panel on cyberinfrastructure
Dan Atkins et al.
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Components of CI-enabled science engineering
High-performance computing
for modeling, simulation, data
processing/mining
Humans
Instruments for
observation and
characterization.
Individual
Global Connectivity
Physical World
Group Interfaces
Visualization
Facilities for activation,
manipulation and
Collaboration
construction
Services
Knowledge management
institutions for collection building
and curation of data, information,
literature, digital objects
Atkins report
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Learning
it is likely that a large part of the student
and teacher experience will be managed within a
systems framework which manages the learning
life-cycle and interfaces to multiple systems and
services.
Neil Mclean, pro-vice Chancellor e-learning and
information services, Macquarrie University
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• All learning material produced by commercial
  suppliers, teachers and the community for UK
  Education will be available from shared
  repositories in a range of levels of granularity
  (content objects to courses).
• Teacher and learner will be active in the
  customisation of on line content
• Teacher and learner can select the most
  appropriate exemplar material from seemingly
  infinite choices of educational content.
• Teachers will not duplicate the production of
  existing material.

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Learning and libraries

• LMS is the learning habitat
• Need to surface information services there,
  folding them into the learning experience
• Games, simulations, quizzez,
• Reading lists, reserves,
• Value
• IMS, OKI

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Research and learning

• Research and learning behavior is increasingly
  entering the network space
• Major institutional and programmatic investment
  in research and learning support
• Multiple technical and professional domains
• Raises interesting questions about service
  convergence and organizational support
• How to deliver service on demand within
  portals or user environments
• (Humanities and SS)

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Repositories

• Manage
• Special collections, cultural and scientific
  heritage, images, archives,
• Institutional intellectual output
• Learning objects/materials
• E-prints
• Research data
• ETDs

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Knowledge bank OSU in planning
the Knowledge Bank can be said to include the
full array of digital assets and information
services available to or being created by OSU
faculty, staff, and students. The Knowledge Bank
is envisioned both as a referatory providing
links to digital objects and a repository
capable of archiving the increasing volume of
digital content created at OSU for long-term use,
dissemination, and preservation. In this way, the
knowledge bank will help the University exercise
responsible stewardship of its intellectual
assets while fostering the creation of new
knowledge.
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of
an OSU knowledge bank
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Institutional intellectual assets

• Reputation management
• Interesting interaction between
• Devolved scholarly authority to contribute to
  discipline
• Managed university approach to asset and
  reputation management
• Curatorial responsibility to the intellectual
  record
• Enrich the discourse of scholarly communication
• Surface rich resources
• New opportunities for access, analysis, re-use

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Digitization

• The virtual is the real
• Drive selective digitization.
• Developing body of best practice
• How to connect institutional activity with
  overall pattern?
• Developing apparatus to coordinate development
  (e.g. DLF/OCLC registry)

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General repository issues

• Early in development stages
• The expense of learning
• The Greenhouse effect?
• Special funding
• Reallocation of internal costs?
• Choice of priorities

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General repository issues

• Processes and systems organized around a
  different logic

• Unique unpublished materials
• Serving

• Non-unique, published materials
• Consuming
• A complex service apparatus in place

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General repository issues

• Is current vertical organization sustainable?
• What will be split out into third party services?
  
• Harvesting
• Metadata creation?
• Digitization?
• Serving?
• Archiving?
• On campus and wider
• Economy and ecology of this wider environment
  under construction

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General repository issues

• Long term ownership costs unknown
• Mission critical liabilities
• Balance between scholarly needs and management
  needs
• Actuarial perspective
• Ingestible
• Secure the value of investment

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Repositories rights management

• Lock first generation
• Levels and roles second generation

Renato Iannella
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Portals
All vogue words tend to share a similar fate
the more experiences they pretend to make
transparent, the more they themselves become
opaque. Zygmunt Bauman
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Library portal

• How the library mediates the engagement of users
  and resources in a network environment

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Delivery
Environmentdirectories
Request
Harvesting data
Terminology services
V. Ref
Rightsmanagement
Distributed query
Resolution
Syndication
Identity management
Annotation
Notification
Presentation

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Resources
Resources
Resources
Resources
Mediation
Application services
Utility services
User services
Presentation
Presentation
Presentation
Presentation
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Service on demand threads/channels

• Do a comprehensive literature search
• Find 20 most heavily used resources on ..
• Generate a reading list
• What general material can I get this afternoon on
  
• Can you answer this question
• Can you recommend some starting points for ..
• Find commentaries on

• Can I comment on this resource
• Can I create a reading list
• I need images of x which I can use for this
  purpose
• Who are the most cited authors on the web in x
• Can I look for engineering drawings, previous
  experimental design,

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Portals

• Supplier driven view the wrong answer to the
  wrong question?
• Recombinant channels
• Institutional or subject portal
• Portfolio (configured to person, group, )
• Channels (surface in space of user)
• What is the role of directory services and portal
  utilities?
• Architecture?

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Interoperability

• Recombinant potential
• Disaggregating scholarly publishing
• Linking, Identifiers
• Play learning objects
• Packaged
• Federated searching
• Fusing metadata
• Processing content
• Structured documents
• Ingesting content
• Surface service channels

• Examples
• Can I add a document to a repository?
• Can I add a repository to a distributed query?
• Can I fuse metadata from one repository with
  another?
• Metadata is not just for discovery (objects,
  services, organizations, policies, )

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Institutional organization (Neil Mclean)
For the last decade, universities have been
grappling with the growing complexities arising
out of the pervasive influence of information and
communication technologies. The underlying
preoccupation has been with the means of managing
the IT infrastructure supporting academic
computing, administrative systems and library
systems. Each domain has had its own particular
challenges with issues of reliability and
cost-effectiveness being constant themes. The
growing interdependence of the various systems
environments led to a focus on organisational
restructuring as a solution to a range of
political and functional problems.  
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Towards the end of the decade, it become apparent
that organisational restructuring in itself was
not the answer. Put simply, the bringing
together of libraries, IT services, management
information systems and (sometimes) flexible
learning centres has not necessarily lead to
better service outcomes. There have been many
examples of tightly converged organisational
structures which have failed to demonstrate
noticeable changes in existing service cultures
and, conversely, there have been examples of
rather disparate organisational structures
demonstrating highly innovative service
solutions.
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Organization

• Authentication/authorization
• Directory
• Rights management
• Manifold portals

• Content management systems
• Learning content management
• Learning management
• Library system
• Manifold research repositories
• Manifold digital library systems
• Intranet/groupware/communications
• Enterprise data management

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Environment

• In the shared network space we move from vertical
  organization around collection to horizontal
  organization around process and user need.
• There may be economies through
• Removing redundancy
• Cooperative processing
• Creating a shared resource

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Third party services

• Shared cataloging
• Directory services (services, users, rights,
  organizations, policies e.g. ILL)
• Archiving services (e.g. Data Archive)
• Authentication (Athens)
• Resolution services?
• Hosting services
• Harvesting services

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An environment is

• A set of network services which work within
  particular technical and business constraints.
• Jisc information environment
• Portal
• Intranet

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For Example
Institutional
Personal
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archives
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OAI
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JISC FAIR program
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Environments

• Needed to support research and learning
• Stretch services in new ways which cross
  organizational and institutional boundaries
• On campus
• Within wider groupings
• Multiple relationships

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Conclusions assist change

• JISC
• Consensus making
• Funding and frameworks
• Operational leverage
• National visibility and scope
• Needs to sustain institutional ownership
• Encourage institutional development

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Conclusions - change

• US
• Consensus making, funding, and operational
  activity more intermittently connected
• More peaks creative and productive local
  institutions
• ARL, CNI, DLF, IMLS, NSF, Mellon, RLG, OCLC,

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Conclusions

• Engagement with the fabric of research and
  learning
• Rich experience
• Institution-building

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