RSC-Managers-meeting

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UKOLN providing support to the RSCs.
Dr Liz Lyon, Director RSC Managers
Meeting 3rd June, 2003
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Overview

• What are we?
• About UKOLN
• What can we do for you?
• Share our portals expertise
• Promote DL/VLE integration of resources
• Provide Web best practice guidance
• Offer events management service
• Questions and discussion

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About UKOLN (1)

• a centre of expertise in digital information
  management
• JISC Development Service
• a strategic think-tank for the JISC
• and Resource regional agenda

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About UKOLN (2)

• Our audiences include
• HE / FE (LT, research, admin)
• Cultural heritage (museums, public libraries,
  archives)
• National libraries (British Library)
• e-government (Office of the e-Envoy)
• NHS / health sector (through Common Information
  Environment work)
• International digital library research community

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About UKOLN (3)

• University of Bath
• 30 staff
• Mix of technical support and development,
  advisory and research activities
• JISC Information Environment technical support
  and development, IE Service Registry
• Dublin Core metadata standards,
• Open Archives Forum, e-prints-UK,
• Collection level descriptions
• e-Science / Grid joint activities e.g. Metadata
  schema registries and ontologies workshop
• Digital Preservation Coalition support, web
  archiving study
• e-journals (Ariadne Cultivate-Interactive)
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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JISC Fair PORTAL project

• www.fair-portal.hull.ac.uk
• Exploring a wide range of issues relating to
  institutional portals, and the integration of
  national resources with institutional information
  and services.
• Overview of institutional portal functionality
• Survey gt600 responses f2f consultation
• Stakeholder requirements
• Review of metadata standards for portal users
  e.g. eduPerson, IMS LIP
• uPortal guide to follow shortly

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Ariadne Issue 33, 2003 Portals PORTALS Everywhere
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Ariadne Issue 35, 2003 Syndicated content.
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Subject Portals Project

• www.portal.ac.uk/spp/
• JISC 5/99 project
• Searching across JISC and non-JISC content
• Modular portlet approach
• Aggregated newsfeed/conference channels
• Technical presentations 2003

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Ariadne Issue 35, 2003 Access management.
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NOF portal EnrichUK

• National launch March 12th
• NOF-digi Programme
• UKOLN Skills set
• Technical (database technology, server side
  technology)
• Metadata / semantics
• Pete Dowdell

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Embedding RDN resources summary

• Working with the RDN http//www.rdn.ac.uk/publicat
  ions/workingwithrdn/
• RDN-include and RDNi-Lite
• gt 100 downloads
• RDN-Channel-Lite
• Embedding RDN services into VLEs
  http//www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/rdnvle/
• rdn-support_at_rdn.ac.uk

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Creating more RDN resources for FE

• RDN4FE project (JISC X4L funding)
• Record enhancement tool
• Backend feature to increase records tagged for FE
  community
• FE tagging
• FE notes
• FE subject (LearnDirect scheme)
• FE level
• FE colleges can extract their own records
• Testing in April

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VLE / Digital Library integration

• Integrating information resources into VLEs
• Bringing together the JISC IE architecture and
  IMS Digital Repositories Interoperability
• JISC IE Architecture Study http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/
  distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/dner-arch.html
• Common standards SOAP, OAI, OpenURLs
• Content standards DC (IE) and IMS metadata (DRI)
• Working with CETIS
• Provide IE support to JISC Development team

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Provide Web best practice guidance (1)

• UK Web Focus Brian Kelly
• Promotes standards and best practice to the FE
  and HE communities
• JISC W3C representative
• Ariadne regular column
• Web testing tools
• Web Watch survey of server software
• HTML standards compliance

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Ariadne Issue 35, 2003 A standards-based culture.
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Provide Web best practice guidance (2)

• Workshops for RSCs
• Web site benchmarking (RSC Eastern and RSC
  South-west)
• Future topics
• Accessibility and accessibility policies (with
  TechDis)
• Quality Assurance for Web sites
• Relevance of Web Services for the FE community
• What would you like??

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Provide Web best practice guidance (3)

• Annual Institutional Web Management Workshop
  Supporting our Users
• University of Kent 11-13th June
• Themes
• e-Learning
• User issues
• Information management
• Resourcing issues
• gt170 delegates
• Programme now available

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Events management

• International / national conferences e.g.
  JISC/CNI
• Workshops e.g. Z39.50
• Sara Hassen, Events Manager
• s.hassen_at_ukoln.ac.uk

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Questions.

• What else can we do to help you?
• What further support do you need?
• Where are the gaps?
• ..discussion