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Digital Futures for MLAs? A snapshot in real time.

Dr Liz Lyon

Director, UKOLN

UKOLN / MLA meeting, May 2007

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A short and selective snapshot

1. Futures thinking?• Some emerging trends within & beyond the sector • A year is a long time in ICT…….• A mix of observation, reflection, speculation…

2. Implications for the MLA Partnership• Strategic planning and operational delivery• Policy impact is wider than “Digital Futures”• Open collaboration as the cultural norm…..

Blogging is now mainstream….

http://www.flickr.com/photos/avatar1/106638367/

Burgeoning community content…

http://www.43places.com/

Blended worlds…..

Cultural tourist?

http://www.steve.museum/

Tagging collections in the US

Tagging collections in the UK

Massive digitisation projects : major open access collections

“Podagogy”?? Blended worlds of the “net gen”….. Leisure & learning. Formal & informal.

Rip, mix, burn…..

Geo-tagging mash-up

Linking the old physical/real with the new digital/virtual….

JISC-fundedcontent providers

institutionalcontent providers

externalcontent providers

brokers aggregators catalogues indexes

institutionalportals

subjectportals

learning managementsystems

media-specificportals

end-userdesktop/browser pr

esen

tatio

n

fusion

prov

isio

n

OpenURLlink servers

shared infrastructure

authentication/authorisation(Athens)

institutional profilingservices

terminologyservices

service registries

identifier services

metadata schema registries

© Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) andNeil Beagrie (British Library and JISC), 2005

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pres

erva

tion

institutionalarchival storage

remote archivalstorage / escrow

format registries

format conversion services

representation informationregistries

persistent identifierservices

JISC Integrated Information Environment

An e-infrastructure for higher education?

JISC-fundedcontent providers

institutionalcontent providers

externalcontent providers

brokers aggregators catalogues indexes

institutionalportals

subjectportals

learning managementsystems

media-specificportals

end-userdesktop/browser pr

esen

tatio

n

fusion

prov

isio

n

OpenURLlink servers

shared infrastructure

authentication/authorisation(Athens)

institutional profilingservices

terminologyservices

service registries

identifier services

metadata schema registries

© Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) andNeil Beagrie (British Library and JISC), 2005

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pres

erva

tion

institutionalarchival storage

remote archivalstorage / escrow

format registries

format conversion services

representation informationregistries

persistent identifierservices

JISC Integrated Information Environment

MLA e-Infrastructure components?

and Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath) 2007

The life of the average Web site is estimated at 44days = lifespan of a housefly….

Digital preservation issues: trust, policy, skills, responsibility.

Digital repositories: audit and certification toolkits

Culture, Learning, Leisure workflows

Aggregator services

Museums, libraries, archives digital repositories

Data curation, preservation: e-Depot, deep archives, data centres

Deposit

Harvest

Deposit

Physical artefacts

Digitisation

Re-use

Search, harvest

Presentation services: portals

Discovery, linking, citation

Linking, citation

Personal collections

Deposit

“Cultural knowledge cycle” Vs0.8

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Personal data capture: images, text

© Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath) 2007

Digital Futures: 10 questions for MLA

1. Is your strategic planning informed by expert input?2. Do you have an understanding of trends in other sectors?3. What policies should the Partnership advocate?

– Open access collections, community content, digital inclusivity?

4. What e-infrastructure is required to deliver policy?5. What cross-sectoral standards compliance is optimal?6. How can greater service integration be achieved?7. How sustainable are current services? e-Content creation? 8. What digital preservation policies & plans are in place?9. How will the workforce develop the skills to deliver?

Leadership? Regionally? Via Hubs? At the coalface? 10. How will Digital Futures impact on other strategy WPs?