Resource Discovery Futures Bob Sharpe Chair CC-interop Steering Group Member of the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee Director of ILS, University of Plymouth

What are the big issues from the project? Semantic interoperability User behaviour in federated searching –Collection description issues –‘Hyper clumps’ Technical interoperability –Z migration SRW

Developing the Vision Our users’ world in 2014 –Jane – a 7yr old –David - a 27yr old

……Introducing Jane

Introducing David……

Dev. Strategy Group Vision: 2014 myCommunities myBlog myIP myID myAssistant myResources myCredit myProfile myGoogle

Project Outcomes and Wider Vision User behaviour in federated searching Semantic interop. in L&T as well as R Searching and knowledge extraction –Metadata –Collection level descriptions –Intelligent Agents –‘Academic Google’ Technical interoperability –Range of resources + move to Web services

How have they been taken forward? CC-interop report to JCIE - June 2004 Proposal to JISC Chairs – July 2004 –Highlighting work already underway –Cross-committee landscaping study –Emphasis via new funding programme under JIIE UKOLN –Resource Discovery Landscaping Study –Google positioning paper

What happens next? Dates for JISC receipt of reports –November 25 th – progress report on the resource discovery position paper –January 20 th – Final resource discovery position paper JIIE Committee meets 17 Nov and 15 Feb New programme of work?

Questions and Discussion Your questions? Do you share the vision / perspectives you have heard today? What are the key areas for development? Do you agree with those suggested?