1. UKOLN is supported by: JISC Information Environment update Repositories and Preservation Programme meeting, October 24-25, 2006 Rachel Heery UKOLN www.ukoln.ac.uk A centre of expertise in digital informaion management

2. What is the JISC Information Environment? Development activity Funding stream Technical architecture –Relationships between components, standards, protocols Content and data flow Users experience of networked information in educational context

3. JISC Information Environment: objectives The aim of the Information Environment is to help provide convenient access to resources for research and learning through the use of resource discovery and resource management tools and the development of better services and practice. JISC Draft Strategy 2007-2009

4. JISC Information Environment: Principles Community engagement Open standards Modularity of development

5. Community engagement

6. Repository interfaces working group Increasingly complex repository ecology To facilitate interoperability between distributed network of repositories More than harvesting metadata.. Data exchange, tracking provenance, added value services, enabling re- use Feeding into ORE initiative

7. Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) Funded by Mellon for two years beginning October 2006 http://www.openarchives.org/ore/ http://www.openarchives.org/ore/ Coordinated by Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, and Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos Research Library International advisory committee International working group to develop ORE specifications Experimental deployment community Community to support management and sustainability of the standards

8. Common interest in interoperability between repositories Ingest (pre-ingest negotiation, smart deposit) Re-use of data Overlay journals Enhancing search across repositories Trust and provenance Preservation and curation

9. Knowledge Exchange SURF – Netherlands DFG – Germany DEFF – Denmark JISC - UK Workshops Forum for information exchange and consensus building

10. Open standards

11. http://standards-catalogue.ukoln.ac.uk/index/JISC_Standards_Catalogue

13. Modular development

14. JISC Information Environment architecture JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers brokersaggregatorsindexescatalogues institutional portals media-specific portals learning management systems subject portals end-user desktop/browser presentation fusion provision OpenURL resolvers shared infrastructure authentication/authorisation (Athens/SAML) JISC IE service registry user preferences services resolvers metadata schema registries terminology services

15. JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers brokersaggregatorscataloguesindexes institutional portals subject portals learning management systems media-specific portals end-user desktop/browser presentation fusion provision OpenURL link servers shared infrastructure authentication/authorisation (Shibboleth,Athens) institutional profiling services terminology services service registries identifier services metadata schema registries © Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) and Neil Beagrie (British Library and JISC), 2005 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0Creative Commons License preservation institutional archival storage remote archival storage / escrow format registries format conversion services representation information registries persistent identifier services

16. JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers brokersaggregatorsindexescatalogues institutional portals media-specific portals learning management systems subject portals end-user desktop/browser presentation fusion provision OpenURL resolvers shared infrastructure authentication/authorisation (Athens/SAML SHIBBOLETH) JISC IE service registry institutional preferences services terminology services user preferences services resolvers metadata schema registries Repositories Search Service Name Authority Service Institutional Repositorie s JORUM & Interim Repositor y File Format Registry Subject Repository

17. JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers brokersaggregatorsindexescatalogues institutional portals media-specific portals learning management systems subject portals end-user desktop/browser presentation fusion provision OpenURL resolvers shared infrastructure authentication/authorisation (Shibboleth/Athens) JISC IE service registry institutional preferences services terminology services user preferences services resolvers metadata schema registries Harvest using OAI PMH version 2.0 OAI PMH repository Dublin Core – OAI-PMH-DC XML/ UK LOM CORE- Dig Repos. Spec. Describe collections & services Using the IESR schema Assign persistent URIs IMS content packaging, METS, DIDL

18. JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers brokersaggregatorscataloguesindexes institutional portals subject portals learning management systems media-specific portals end-user desktop/browser presentation fusion provision OpenURL link servers shared infrastructure authentication/authorisation (Shibboleth,Athens) institutional profiling services terminology services service registries identifier services metadata schema registries © Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) and Neil Beagrie (British Library and JISC), 2005 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0Creative Commons License preservation institutional archival storage remote archival storage / escrow format registries format conversion services representation information registries persistent identifier services

19. Further information Linking UK repositories: technical and organisational models to support user-oriented services across institutional and other digital repositories Alma Swan and Chris Awre http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Linking_UK_repositories_report.pdf JISCInformation Environment http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/information_environment http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/information_environment http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/ For discussion: jisc-development@jiscmail.ac.uk

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