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An Introduction To UKOLN:
What We Are and What We Do
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
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MLA
JISC
EU
NSF
IST
UoB
ARCO
FP5 TFL
FP6
DCC
Funders / Stakeholders
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RDF
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XSLT
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DCC
KIM
CSS
SWORD
DC
Reveal
SMIL
Some of the key technologies
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Contents
About UKOLN
 What we are
 What we do
Selected UKOLN Activities
 Research Activities:
Dublin Core and OAI* Metadata
 Facilitating Events:
IWMW / DCMI / …
 Dissemination:
Publishing e-journals
 Metadata tools
 National services and service support
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* OAI stands for Open Archives Initiative. Please remind
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About UKOLN
UKOLN:
• A national centre of excellence in digital
information management
• Based in the University of Bath
• About 30 FTEs
• Funded by:
 JISC
 MLA
 EU and other project funding streams
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UKOLN Staff
WH
L5
Home
WH
Home
Based:
• In the Library (L4)
• In Wessex House
(WH L 5)
• Home workers
L4
WH
L4 management
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What Do We Do?
UKOLN is involved in a range of activities at a
local, national and international level
Research
ESRC-funded KIM
project to ensure
long-term access
to engineering data
Events
DCC workshops &
conferences
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Dissemination
Ariadne and IJDC
e-journals
Development
Development of DCdot and
RSSxpress metadata tools
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Who Are We?
The Research & Development Team
carry out research in a range of aspects of
digital information management
The Admin Team
provides
administrative
support for UKOLN
R&D
Admin
PAT
DSS
The Distributed Systems Support
Team manages UKOLN’s computing
infrastructure and provide technical
support
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The Policy and
Advice Team
provides outreach
services to our
communities and
manages
dissemination
channels such as
Ariadne
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Examples Of Our Activities
We will now briefly review a number of our
activities:
• Metadata activities, including involvement
in development of metadata standards
and deployment of metadata
• Dissemination of our activities
• Use of metadata in our dissemination
• Support for national services
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Metadata
R&D Team
Metadata:
• Data about data
• “This metadata - it’s just catalogue records
… isn’t it?”
Resource discovery metadata:
• Information about Internet resources which helps
users to find the resource
• “Catalogue Records for the Web”
So what’s so special about metadata?
• The size of the Web & the range of resources
(text, images, sound, video, virtual resources, …)
• The distributed, uncontrolled nature of the Web
• The nature of the Web
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Dublin Core
R&D Team
Background:
• Cross-sectoral meetings (libraries,
museums, galleries, etc) held to agree on
approaches to resource discovery for
Internet resources
• Agreed core set of 15 elements, known as
Dublin Core (after Dublin, Ohio)
• Elements include Creator, Title, Publisher,
Date, Rights, …
UKOLN has been involved with Dublin Core since its inception and
isA still
involved
(e.g. Dublin
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Digital Repositories
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An important aspect
of UKOLN’s work
centres around
digital repositories:
• Advising JISC on
its funding for
repository work
• Supporting JISC’s
programmes
• Supporting
institutional
repositories
• JISC-funded
project work
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Other Research Work
Other research activities include:
• eBankUK: exploring the scholarly knowledge
lifecycle for research data e.g. use and reuse of
crystallographic data published in scientific
journals
• KIM (Knowledge & Information Management):
finding robust ways of handling information and
knowledge e.g. design models, processes and
rationale over the lifetime of project-services such
as PFI hospitals, schools & military equipment
• Consultancy work: Data report
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Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights,
Responsibilities & Relationships (1)
Outcomes of a recent JISC-funded study by UKOLN
• Institutions (repositories) and data centres
• Roles, rights, responsibilities, relationships
• High-level data-flow models
Positioned in the UK context
• 8 perspectives from
Strategy to Practice
• Examples of best practice
• Recommendations
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Dealing with Data: (2)
Synthesis
• Funder support for data curation is (still) patchy
• Gaps in infrastructure support
• High level and strategic
• Operational level and practical : data services & data
centres
• Within and between institutions
• Within and between disciplines : globally
Recommendations
• Datasets Mapping & Gap Analysis
• Data Curation & Preservation Strategy for the UK
• Data Audit Framework for institutions
• Data Networking Forum for data centre staff
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Dealing with Data: (3)
Synthesis
• Limited formal links between programme planning and
support infrastructure but examples of good practice
• Formal data policies are essential
• Web 2.0 influence: data sharing using social software
• Better joint planning for data management
Recommendations
• Funders should openly publish, implement and enforce a
Data Management, Preservation and Sharing Policy
• Research projects should submit a Data Management Plan
for peer-review
• Universities should implement an Institutional Data
Management, Preservation and Sharing Policy
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Brokerage
UKOLN provides brokerage and facilitation
services
In the area of metadata:
• UKOLN involved from start in contributing
to discussions, facilitating events, etc.
• Continuing involvement in Dublin Core
events
• Metadata as important aspect to support
the preservation of digital resources
The brokerage role typically involves organising events
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Dissemination
A wonderful solution to a problem is of no use
unless the community knows about it!
UKOLN’s dissemination activities include:
• Organising conferences, workshops and
seminars
• Giving presentations at conferences,
workshops and seminars
• Writing articles, papers, etc.
• Providing Web-based resources
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Ariadne
The Ariadne
Web magazine
provides
coverage of
developments,
especially within
the UK HE
sector
Ariadne is
published 4
times per year
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/
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Tools
To support the
take-up of
metadata,
UKOLN has
developed a
number of tools
which are freely
available
DCassist is a Web-based tool which provides
information about Dublin Core elements
DCassist is available at
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcassist/>
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Tools (2)
DC-dot is a
Web-based
metadata
authoring
tool
DC-dot is available at
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/>
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Intuit
The Intute
Subjects
(formerly
gateways
RDN)SOSIG
(e.g.
provides
a
and
BIOME)
coordinated
provide
approach
access
to to
work of the
quality
gateways
controlled
(crossresources
searching,
increased
coverage,
…)
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Today’s Challenges
Web 2.0:
• Identifying appropriate areas of use
• Embedding best practices
• Managing the services and resources
• …
Let’s now look at some examples:
• UK Web Focus blog
• Blogs in the library sector
• Finding resources – Technorati
• Wikis
• Social networks such as Facebook and Ning
• New applications such as Twitter
• Mashups and innovation
• …
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Finding Out More
To find out more about UKOLN and our
activities:
• Visit our Web site at
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/>
• Read Ariadne at
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/>
• Send an email request to [email protected] if
you would like to be added to the mailing list for
our Newsletter
Any questions?
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