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Can We Talk?
MICHAEL ConferenceLondon May 23, 2008 Joyce Ray
About the Institute of Museum and Library Services
• IMLS is the largest U.S. cultural funding agency
• Budget: FY08 $263,507,000
• Mission: To create strong museums and libraries that connect people to information and ideas.
• Goals: to support the nation’s 25,000 museums and 122,000 libraries to: – Sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge – Enhance learning and innovation– Support professional development
You Say E-Science…
• We Say Cyberinfrastructure –What are we talking about?
A technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers and people
Research environments that support advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration and other computing and information processing services over the Internet
Sometimes called e-Science, especially in the UK
– Wikipedia
The Challenges are Global
• Develop sustainable repositories - find the right economies of scale
• Enhance discovery & tools to support advanced research & re-use within & across repositories over time
• Address copyright barriers
• Build the content landscape
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAD Preservation Research: Frank Gehry architectural documents (2006)
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The “Steve” Project
Social tagging research using images from more than one dozen museums posted on Facebook
http://steve.museum/
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.interconnectionsreport.org/
IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the InternetFinds positive correlation between use of the Internet and visits to museums and libraries
Johns Hopkins University
National Virtual Observatory Digital Data Curation Program(2006)
Partnership with University of Edinburgh and University of Washington
Using OAI-ORE harvesting to preserve publications and data sets
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Research on EnhancedIntegration of Search and Discovery Tools(2007)
Investigation of advanced metasearch using portal mechanisms and search assistance techniques
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
IMLS Collections & Content Registry
Research(2003, 2007)
Research on OAI-PMH metadata harvesting & metasearch integration
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/
Purdue University
Data Curation Research(2007)
Distributed Data Curation CenterPartnership with UIUC
Case studies of researcher data/metadata workflow, curation profiles across disciplines, system requirements for managing data in repositories
You Say Centre…
We Say Center
But it’s all about curation (or stewardship?) of digital data
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Host of the 2010 DCC
Digital Curation Conference
2007 Conference in Washington, DC
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
New MLS concentration in
data curation (2006)
Partnerships with science data centers
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/data_curation.html
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digital Curation Curriculum Development (2006)
Partnership with National Archives & Records AdministrationInternational Conference in 2007
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/
Exploring New Professional Careers
http://chips.ci.fsu.edu/
Cultural Heritage Information Professionals Workshop
Working across the boundaries of libraries, archives & museums
Sarasota FloridaApril 3-4, 2008
Digital Cultural Content Forum
Annual meetings in•2001 London•2002 Washington, DC•2003 Florence•2004 Banff•2005 Oxford•2006 Los Angeles•2007 Montreal
Can We Talk?
Visit IMLS at www.imls.gov
Joyce Rayjray@imls.gov