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Memory institutions and the social fabric of the Web Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN MLA Partnership Digital Agenda Scoping Group June 2006. UKOLN is supported by:. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. “ Technorati now indexes >44.1M blogs “.
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Memory institutions and the social fabric of the Web Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN MLA Partnership Digital Agenda Scoping Group June 2006 UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
http://www.ideum.com/blog/26 Survey of “museum blogs” in March 2006: “museums have been slow to develop blogs and community sites”
Blended worlds….. Cultural tourist? http://www.43places.com/
“Architecture of Participation” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joemagicdeveloper/139378339/
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ UK participants include: National Archives Natural History Museum Microsoft MSN Book Search BBC Creative Archive http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
Click-Use Licences: Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/ Licensing options?
“Podagogy”?? Blended worlds….. Leisure and learning? Formal and informal approaches?
Avian flu outbreaks mashup - Nature January 2006 Data from FAO, WHO… +Google Earth
Reflections…… The cultural space now reflects the “two-way Web”- grassroots meets the institution? People are capturing and sharing their personal collections, lives and memories Sector boundaries are fuzzier: blended culture, tourism, leisure & learning Opportunities for engaging (new) audiences and building communities …..Consider interactions with the physical world Requirement for integrated digital infrastructure
Presentation services: portals Search, harvest Discovery, linking, citation Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling Personal data capture: images, text Aggregator services Harvest Deposit Culture, Learning, Leisure workflows Museums, libraries, archives digital repositories Personal collections “Cultural knowledge cycle” Vs 0.x Digitisation Deposit Deposit Data curation, preservation: e-Depot, deep archives, data centres Linking, citation Physical artefacts This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
repository repository repository repository repository heterogeneous - metadata formats, content formats, identifiers, packaging standards fusion layer ‘repository federator’ homogeneous - metadata formats, content formats, identifiers, packaging standards portal portal portal portal portal “JISC Vision”: a global landscape of federated repositories • e-Framework and Information Environment context • Define common + domain-specific + repository “services” • Interoperability based on open standards, software tools • Multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral • National, institutional • Different platforms • Many format types: data, eprints, images, geospatial From Andy Powell: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/presentations/jiie-jcs-2005/
Digital repositories, OA & preservation • Long-term access: trust, responsibility, policy • Trusted DR Audit Checklist for Certification Draft Research Libraries Group-NARA Taskforce 2005 criteria in 4 categories • Organisation • Functions, processes & procedures • Designated community & usability • Technologies & technical infrastructure • UK Digital Curation Centre: advice, tools & services • RepInfo Registry • EU CASPAR Integrated Project • Task Force on the Permanent Access to the Records of Science • MLA Preservation in the Regions, DPC Mind the Gap Reports • Assuring Permanent Access to Cultural Materials? http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ http://www.casparpreserves.info/pages/1/index.htm http://tfpa.kb.nl/
Adding value: repository services • Tools: for deposit, normalisation, manipulation, transformation….. • Citation, linking, annotation, visualisation • Aggregators: generic, sectoral, (sub-) disciplinary • Knowledge extraction: • Mining (data, text, structure) • Modelling (virtual worlds…) • Analysis (lexical, image….) Nature 23 March 2006 OTMI: Open Text Mining Interface http://www.nactem.ac.uk/ Emerging tools: TerMine, GENIA, Cafetiere