Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting Higher and Further Education “GOING GLOBAL”: JISC IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Reg Carr JISC/CNI Conference, Stratford, June 2000
Joint Information Systems Committee THE UK HE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA “Contributing to the healthy development of higher education in this country and overseas, by learning from international experience, and by helping to promote the reputation and competitiveness of UK higher education abroad” (HEFCE strategic aim)
Joint Information Systems Committee THE UK HE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA: KEY ISSUES AND DRIVERS Supporting national outreach ‘Selling’ UK HE in the global marketplace Overseas student recruitment/student mobility Enabling collaborative research Benefits of globalised information Sharing costs of research and development
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Support & Services HE Institutions Support & Services FE Institutions 5 Sub-Committees Networking Electronic Information Authentication & Security Awareness, Liaison & Training Integrated Environments for Learners THE JISC: ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC: MISSION “To stimulate and enable the cost-effective exploitation of information systems, and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education, further education and research councils communities”
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: ACTIVITY TYPES Promoting UK know-how Making common cause Formal programmes and alliances Developing standards/interoperability Buying in content (for the DNER)
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: PROMOTING UK KNOW-HOW Web-site/publications Conferences & visits (Australia, Canada, Europe, US) Official delegations (Morocco, China) Playing host...
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: MAKING COMMON CAUSE Tempe Principles SPARC UKOLN links to Europe Coalition for Networked Information DLF...
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: FORMAL PROGRAMMES & ALLIANCES National Science Foundation Internet 2 eLib/DNER Research Libraries Group iParadigms DANTE
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: DEVELOPING STANDARDS & INTEROPERABILITY Dublin Core (UKOLN) Technology Watch Terena IMS Global Interoperability Focus (CIMI, DOI, Europe) OAIS (CEDARS)
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: BUYING IN CONTENT (FOR THE DNER) ISI/Web of Science JSTOR NESLI OCLC AMICO...
Joint Information Systems Committee JISC INTERNATIONAL: OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED Network development Information strategies Standards Interoperability Authentication Plagiarism Content acquisition Subject gateways Metadata/resource discovery Cross-domain searching ePrint archives Electronic journals Digital archiving Scholarly comms.