JISC Digital Library initiatives ECDL Paris September 1999
JISC Digital Library initiatives ECDL, Paris September 1999 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 1
JISC digital library initiatives: contents Background JISC programme outlines The DNER International initiatives Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 2
JISC: background Joint Information Systems Committee • sub-committee of funding councils • £ 35 million per year standard budget (plus extras) • funds JANET/Super. JANET • funds services (eg BIDS, EDINA, MIMAS etc) • funds R&D programmes Funding is “top-sliced” Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 3
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? ) Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 4
Networking £ 40 million extra for Super. JANET 4 • major procurement Involvement in Internet 2 etc Market testing (eg Mailbase) No major R&D programmes Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 5
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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 6
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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 providers. 7
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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 8
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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 9
Human & other issues Human and organisational Issues associated with network security C&IT skills development Common interface study Also have programme on information strategies Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 10
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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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 12
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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 13
Conditions for interprogramme 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 Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 14
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. Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 15
JISC: more information See JISC web pages http: //www. jisc. ac. uk/ e. Lib web pages maintained by UKOLN http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/elib/ Mailbase lists including jisc-announce@mailbase. ac. uk lis-elib@mailbase. ac. uk Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information 9/17/2020 16
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