JISC Information Environment: The Big Picture

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JISC Information Environment The Big Picture

• INF11 Start-Up Meeting for 12/08 and JISCRI
  Projects, Leicester, July 2009

Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC
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About JISC

• JISC delivers its mission through
• innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure,
  services and practice that support institutions
  in meeting their mission
• promoting the development, uptake and effective
  use of ICT to support learning and teaching
• promoting the development, uptake and effective
  use of ICT to support research
• promoting the development, uptake and effective
  use of ICT within institutions and in support of
  their management
• developing and implementing a programme to
  support institutions' engagement with the wider
  community
• continuing to improve its own working practices

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Information Environment Work What are we aiming
to do?

• Build a layer of scholarly content
• Develop/promote curation and preservation
  infrastructure
• Identify/provide infrastructure for access to
  content services
• Provide guidelines technical, policy,
  organisational
• to support teaching, learning and research
• within UK FE/HE

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Who is we?

• JISC Innovation Group
• Information Environment
• E-Content
• E-Research
• E-Learning
• Within the Community
• Funded Projects
• Institutions

• JISC Services
• Edina and Mimas
• UKOLN, CETIS and OSS Watch
• Advisory Services
• JISC Collections

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Why do we all need to work together?

• Example Research Information Management

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Research information management
Funder
Institution
Projects
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
Research Funders
Society Today
Funder
Institution
OOCS
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
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Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
HEFCE (REF, HESA)
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Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
HEFCE (REF, HESA)
NAMES
Juliet
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Research information management
UKPMC
IR
Research Funders
Institutions
Society Today
Publn database
Funder
Institution
OOCS
CRIS
LMS / OPAC
Projects
G o t W
Outputs
People
HEFCE (REF, HESA)
NAMES
Juliet
Web of Science
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Why do we all need to work together?

• Example Research Information Management
• Its a shared problem
• Its important
• Its complicated
• Its expensive
• therefore
• Its worth us finding out how to do it better

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How do we do it better?

• Cue the Information Environment
• Is it a
• shared architecture?
• national infrastructure?
• standards framework?
• community of practice?
• programme of work?
• set of services?
• set of principles?

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Concepts

• Mainly concerned with discovery to delivery
  (D2D), preservation, and the curation of
  resources
• Verbs associated with the IE create, publish,
  manage, curate, preserve, locate, request,
  access, use
• Includes
• Architecture
• Standards and specifications
• Projects
• Services
• A distributed infrastructure for UK higher
  education to allow easy access to information and
  to help provide services to curate that
  information.

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Architectures
were already thinking about IE3.0 but we dont
yet know what it will look like!
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Example Open Educational Resources
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Areas of Interest
Research Information Management
Library Services
Repositories
Discovery
Preservation
Research Communications
(Rapid) innovation
Shared infrastructure
Advice Guidance
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Projects in the IE what it means

• We expect projects to get involved in
• Identifying issues of shared concern
• Identifying and describing good practice
• Developing policies and practices within and
  across institutions
• Sharing knowledge about technologies and
  standards
• Implementing, building, trialling, testing,
  piloting software
• Agreeing to play a part in the bigger picture
  EXAMPLE

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Example Building Coherence in Repositories (1)

• 1. Establish and publicly express a preservation
  policy for the content held by the repository.
  Integrate that repository preservation policy
  with any wider institutional activity on
  preservation, and promote such activity. A recent
  JISC report offers tools to help with this
  process Digital Preservation Policies Study.
• 2. Ensure that usage data are available for
  material held in the repository perhaps by
  installing Google Analytics (although other,
  perhaps more appropriate, methods are also
  available). Where possible, appropriate aggregate
  data should be publicly available. Raw server log
  files should also be preserved for as long as
  possible, for later analysis.
• 3. Ensure that, for each item in the repository,
  there is a clear expression of the permissions
  granted to users (both human users and other
  computers), which can be harvested with the item.
  Where possible, this expression should be
  machine-readable, for example, those as are
  available for Creative Commons licences.
• 4. Make a clear decision about the right
  item-level metadata to expose for each content
  type held, depending (for example) on the mission
  of the repository, the cost/benefits of creating
  metadata, relevant practice elsewhere (for
  example, major subject-based repositories) and
  the types of reuse anticipated of the material
  being shared. Expose the resulting metadata
  policy (including reference to any schema used)
  in both human and machine readable forms in a
  widely accepted, standard way.
• Where that decision includes a commitment to
  expose item-level metadata relating to the
  version of the item, to use the Version
  Identification Framework.

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Example Building Coherence in Repositories (2)

• 5. For repositories holding open access research
  papers
• check their policies against the OpenDOAR policy
  tool and, as a result, expose policies in a
  machine-readable form so ensure OAI-PMH is
  configured to enable policy description to be
  included in the repository response to the
  OAI-PMH Identify request, and that this is used
  to expose the policy descriptions.
• check their practice against the DRIVER
  Guidelines 2.0, run their repository against the
  DRIVER validator tool, and make (and document)
  reasonable efforts to attain a high score.
• include fields for research funder and grant
  number, and advocate use of these for those
  outputs that are the result of specific grant
  funding. Note that the Research Councils would
  hope to harvest and make use of this information.
  NERC, ESRC and EPSRC have offered to make their
  grant data available, which might help depositors
  and/or repositories populate these fields. See
  paragraph 203 in the Call for Proposals.
• 6. Document the results of the above activities,
  alongside basic information such as OAI-PMH base
  URL and any available RSS feeds, in a simple
  human-readable webpage about the repository
• From Briefing Document for the Information
  Environment Grant Funding Call 12/08 Strand A
  Calls

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The Big Picture Be Part of It

• Information Environment 2009-2011 is a rolling
  programme
• Projects all different shapes, sizes and lengths
• You are doing all sorts of work analysis,
  software development, testing, implementation,
  embedding, skills development and embedding and
  more
• Every project has a part to play even the
  smallest project can have a big impact
• Ask the question. You If there were easy answers
  you wouldnt be getting special funding!
• Make contact with people beyond your project use
  them for expertise, peer support, feedback,
  testing, sense-checking, collaboration,
  consensus-building

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At a glance
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JISC Information Environment The Big Picture

• INF11 Start-Up Meeting for 12/08 and JISCRI
  Projects, Leicester, July 2009

Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC