What’s Happening? A UK Perspective DIGITAL UNIVERSITY PROJECT What’s Happening? A UK Perspective PEPC 2003 Ian Dolphin

General Meeting November 2002 forms JA-SIG UK Meeting sponsored by JISC 50 attendees Mailing list JASIG-UK@jiscmail.ac.uk Web Site http://www.ja-sig.org.uk/ Institutional portal: still a hot topic National subject portals: SPP, PORTAL Project

In practice … diversity, but common issues: “Old” Universities, “New” Universities Web single sign-on Varying points along the road - Yale CAS Authorisation and Person Directory Heterogenous directory services “grey users” Data standards for Person Directory http://www.fair-portal.hull.ac.uk/deliverables.html

Institutional process barrier Portal a “process lens” Critical test of Senior management buy-in … and of buy-in from below Demonstrating benefits Managing expectations “Join” between central and departmental data

Consultation – PORTAL survey Library systems integration Integrated access to external resources Concerns regarding accessibility SENDA, 508, EU legislation Services provided by LMS/VLE “system overlap” & value-for-money

New Projects & Collaborations Web Services & Learning Services Single (micro) or aggregated clusters (macro) of web services which are used to support learning Which can be rapidly assembled in response to need Deconstruct the LMS/VLE Re-use components in a non learning context Develop/refine macro services in response to pedagogical research and experience