United Kingdom
Christopher PresslerHead of Arts Collections, University of London
FAIR Advisory Board Member
FAIR in contextFocus on Access to Institutional Resources
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Overview
• The UK Information Environment
• FAIR programme aims
• FAIR project clusters
• Institutional work – early lessons in the UK
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
The UK Information Environment
• The JISC Information Environment will provide a range of services, tools and mechanisms for colleges and universities to exploit and share their own resources and the resources of others.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/powell/
• Three main aspects to this provision:1. User Focus: Customised value-added services will simplify the user’s experience of
selected online resources – inclusion into local services2. Technical Focus: Implementation of agreed standards and protocols – influencing
commerce, national providers and creators3. Collaboration: Primarily in the UK – British Library, NHS, Higher & Further Education,
Museums and Public Libraries, E-Science Core Programme
• The IE is an essential interpreter of WWW and GRID technologies to the UK education sectors.
• Work sits alongside the developing UK Common Information Environment – JISC, The British Library, e-science Core, UKOLN, Resource, NHS
• Making technology meaningful demands content
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
THE IE - Building Meaningful Content
• Portals - Informing and developing the use• Digital Library Research – international and classroom use -
NSF• X4L – repurposing content for learning• Learning and Teaching – supporting through digital resources• Infrastructure – integration of access to digital resources• Presentation – web environments that benefit users
• FAIR – access and sharing of institutional content
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
FAIR – programme aims
• Explore the OAI protocol as a mechanism for disclosure and sharing a range of resource types: images, video clips, learning objects, finding aids, e-prints, e-theses
• Explore other mechanisms for disclosure
• Explore the challenges associated with disclosure and sharing, including IPR
• Test the delivery of disclosed information through established JISC services
• Investigate the balance between local and national management and archiving of resources
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
FAIR – project clusters14 Projects / 50 Institutions / £3million / 1-3 years
• EFAIR cluster• DAEDALUS - Glasgow• e-prints UK – RDN, King’s• Electronic Theses – Robert Gordon• HaIRST - Strathclyde• SHERPA - Nottingham• TARDIS - Southampton• Theses Alive! - Edinburgh• Museums and Images cluster• Accessing the Virtual Museum - UCL• BioBank Image Archive - Bristol• Harvesting the FitzWilliam - Cambridge• Hybrid Archives – AHDS, King’s• Institutional Portals• FAIR Enough - WCC • PORTAL - Hull
• Romeo – Loughborough - ended
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Not just e-prints
• Institutional content of various kinds: e-prints, e-theses, e-learning materials etc.– HaIRST (Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland
Testbed) – http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/– DAEDALUS (Data providers for Academic E-content and
the Disclosure of Assets for Learning, Understanding and Scholarship) – http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/
• Plus e-theses, images and cultural objects– E-Theses Robert Gordon, ULL, The British Library,
Aberdeen, Cranfield + Edinburgh, Glasgowhttp://www2.rgu.ac.uk/library/e-members.htm
– Museums Cambridge, UCL and AHDS at King’s:http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/htf/
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Addressing the problems• RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) - end
– Findings now at: www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
RoMEO Studies 1: The impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving RoMEO Studies 2: How academics wish to protect their open-access research paper RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements RoMEO Studies 5: IPR issues for OAI Data and Service Providers RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
• TARDis (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure)– University of Southampton at: http://tardis.eprints.org/– investigating overcoming technical, cultural and academic barriers to institutional
repositories– developing working model of multi-disciplinary institutional repository
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Publishing research
• SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) lead: University of Nottingham – Data Provider
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
– to set up a series of institutional OAI-compliant e-print (pre and post-print) repositories using eprints.org software
– to investigate key issues in populating and maintaining e-print collections, including advocacy in the research community
– to work with Service Providers to achieve acceptable standards for metadata exchange and the dissemination of the content
– to investigate OAIS-compliant digital preservation– to disseminate learning outcomes and advocacy materials, including
providing detailed advice to others
– Major news – OUP becomes the first publisher to work directly with the institutional pilot in the UK – October 2003
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Accessing research
• ePrints UK (Building a national metadata repository for e-prints) lead: RDN, King’s College London – Service Provider
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/
• Partners: UKOLN at Bath, OCLC, Southampton, Leeds, Bristol, Heriot Watt, Birmingham, Manchester Metropolitan, Oxford, Nottingham, UMIST
– To set up as a Service Provider gathering metadata from institutional, disciplinary and personal Data Providers
– To enhance records, via web services, with:• Automatic subject classification• Authority headings• Citation analysis resulting in OpenURL citations
– To deliver search interfaces through RDN Hubs
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
Institutional work – mid-term lessons UK
• Collection Management:– document type and format: e-prints / PDF etc– digital preservation policies: what and how? – UK centre coming…– submission procedures: how will files be formatted and then
deposited?– IPR policies: the rights of the author, institution and publisher?– metadata quality standards: who creates metadata and according
to what standards – Academic DC?– Subject schemas specific to digital environments – retrieval focused
rather than storage– Economics of repositories med/long term?– Relationships with publishers (and their development teams)
Biggest challenge is obtaining content – advocacy the key
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