Enhancing

Linnean OnlineUniversity of London

Linnean Society of London

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The Great Linnaeus

Linnean Online Collections

Enhancing sustainability ● Stakeholder consultation and user survey:

identify key areas of value of digital collections

● Enhancements to bind collections to the needs of stakeholders○ Society○ Librarians○ Curators○ Researchers○ Teachers○ General public

● Post-implementation review

1. Interoperability

● With other online life-science systems and

catalogues○ Natural History Museum○ Kew○ Open University

● Linked data● API functionality● Emerging data visualisation tools

2. User experience

● Overall presentation● Discovery and navigation tools● Evolving user expectations

○ Facebook○ Twitter○ Mobile / tablet interfaces○ E-books / apps

3. Metadata

● Enhance current metadata● Implement new discipline-specific schemas

(e.g. Darwin Core)● General metadata standardsschemas (e.g.

DBPedia)● Search tools● Linked data

3. Metadata (2)

4. Licensing

● Assert intellectual property and investment

of Society● Support legitimate use of materials and

metadata (e.g. in blogs, teaching/learning resources, VREs)

● Clearly expressed in human and machine-readable form

5. Revenue generation

● Can we enable established or innovative

revenue generating activities to support the upkeep of the collections?

● Facilitate reuse of the materials● Advertising?

6. Digital Preservation strategy

● Review existing overall DP strategy● Digital asset management processes

● Enhance/update where necessary

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