jisc digital library initiatives
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Presentation at ECDL Paris, 1998TRANSCRIPT
Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 10/04/231
JISC Digital Library initiatives
ECDL, Paris September 1999
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JISC digital library initiatives: contents
Background JISC programme outlines The DNER International initiatives
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JISC: background
Joint Information Systems Committee• sub-committee of funding councils• £35 million per year standard budget (plus extras)• funds JANET/SuperJANET• funds services (eg BIDS, EDINA, MIMAS etc)• funds R&D programmes
Funding is “top-sliced”
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JISC: sub-committees
JCN: networks (£20 M?) JCAS: authentication & security (middleware, £2 M?) JCEI: information (digital library, £8 M?) JCIEL (?): learning environments (£2 M?) JCALT: human & MIS issues (£2 M?)
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Networking £40 million extra for SuperJANET 4
• major procurement Involvement in Internet 2 etc Market testing (eg Mailbase) No major R&D programmes
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Middleware New committee: work areas roughly
• authentication and authorisation• security and privacy• e-commerce?• remote DB access and metadata?
Service based on ATHENS Link to Internet 2 Not sure how committee will proceed
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DNER Distributed National Electronic Resource ... to make sense of burgeoning heterogeneous
information resources ... a national scale digital library project ... emphasising integration ... needing design, infrastructure, development,
research, and content. Model based on portals, services and data providers.
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DNER development Major Circular November 99, to close January 2000 Projects to develop the DNER
• build and connect the infrastructure• experiment with different types of portals• experiment with different services• incorporate more types of content.
Evaluation and feedback
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Learning & teaching Major funding injection (£10 million new money
over 3 years) Part of DNER circular
• enhancing JISC services for learning & teaching• developing content• digital libraries and learning/teaching environments• ... and evaluation
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Human & other issues Human and organisational Issues associated
with network security C&IT skills development Common interface study Also have programme on information strategies
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International JISC/NSF programme
• Part of NSF International Digital Libraries Initiative• 6 projects• £500,000 per year for 3 years
Opportunistic! High profile, popular with the paymasters Major benefits in improving communication
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Future international? No specific budget, although seeking a small
general international budget• specific ideas would help
Neutral stance: needs to benefit JISC, to justify cost (including establishment)
Earliest spend would be 2001• more likely 2001/2002
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Conditions for inter-programme success
Mutual advantage and willingness to share the load Politics and timing: convergence Resources: significantly greater overhead Flexibility: need to adapt hallowed practice to
accommodate Trust
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Suggestion Add to new circulars
• “Proposers are invited to suggest optional additional modules to their proposal, to be performed by international partners,and funded by non-[local] funding sources. Viable proposals of this type will be viewed favourably.”
Allows separability of funding decisions but puts the onus on the project’s international partners to organise.
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