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Portals, Gateways & Black Holes

David KayStrategic Development DirectorFretwell-Downing Informatics

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Metadata and the Art of Web Service Maintenance

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A Webmasters Guide to the Infoverse

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Content Wars … The Library Strikes Back

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Stuff

Web Digital TV Gateways

New Media Libraries

CommunityInformation

Programme

Guides

Datasets

Courseware

ArchivesCulturalHeritage

Books

Music

Museums

NGfL

UfI

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Into the Melting Pot

• Curatorial Traditions

• Subject Domains

• Media Types

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First Generation Problems

• On Line

• Searchable

• Sustainable

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Independent Applications

WebClients

Services

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Integration

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Unified Presentation / Independent Services

Home Page

Services

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Unified Services / flexible Presentation

<Presentation>

<Brokerage>

<Data & Services>

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Competing Paradigms

• Discovery v Disclosure

• Searching v Browsing

• Documents v Records

• Explicit v Implicit

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Metadata

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Metadata Commonality

CoreElements Key

Identifiers

Libraries Archives

Museums

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Metadata Granularity

Future

Past

Present

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New Services

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Flat World or Multi-dimensional Model?

HybridInformation

Space

A landscape under development…..An evolving ecology .......

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Second Generation Problems

•Landscape

•Services

•Purpose

•Individualisation

•The Real World

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Metadata Facets

ATOMICINFORMATION

OBJECTS

PackagedLandscaped

Individualised Purposed

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Landscape Perspectives

Thesauri

Authority Files

SupplementaryFunding Aids

Locations

ServicesPurposes

PopularSearches

Topics

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The GAIA Service Model

CUSTOMER/BROKER

BROKER/SUPPLIER

SEARCH

LOCATE

REQUEST

DELIVER

HELPERS

AUTHENTI CATION

PAYMENT RIGHTS

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Focus on Purpose

• Research

• Lifelong Learning & Training

• Business

• Civic & Community Information

• Lifestyle

• Leisure & Entertainment

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Individualisation

• My landscape

• My services

• My Purpose

• My Real World

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The Real World

Authentication Payment Rights

Service

Purpose

Resource

HybridInformation

Space

GenericServices

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New Services for a Learning Society

• Curatorial - Catalog

• Instructional - Curriculum

• Individual - Desktop

The acid test for Libraries, Archives and Museums

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Instructional ManagementSystem (IMS) Components

IMS

LearningEnvironment

AssetManagement

ManagementInformation

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The Learning Environment Challenge

AssetManagement

StudentManagement

InstructionalManagement

HybridInformationSpace

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And finally...

Metadata is

King

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We need good environmentalists...

1. Understand information ecology

2. Respect other traditions

3. Get your house in order

4. Promote good practice globally

5. Be active locally

6. Remember the answer is here

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David Kaydkay@fdgroup.co.uk

Fretwell-Downing Informatics861 Ecclesall RoadSheffield S11 7AE

United Kingdom+44 (0)114 281 6040www.fdgroup.co.uk