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Monday 26th March. UKSG, Glasgow.

Data-Driven Library Infrastructure:A UK perspective

Ben ShowersProgramme Managerb.showers@jisc.ac.uk

@benshowers

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

Supporting the innovative use of Information and Communication Technology (lCT) in support of learning,

teaching, and research

www.flickr.com/photos/humanoide

Outline

1. Current Picture2. Data-Driven 3. Benefits and

Implications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fzmmrk6kk

3 themes Ecosystem

Effort

Eventualities

The current picture

Systems and services designed as discreet solutions

System and service redundancy

Thin

king

verti

cally

The current picture

Data-Driven Infrastructure

Ambient data Dynamic data

Three Stars of Data-Driven Infrastructure

Reusable data

Reusable vocabularies

Joined data upRachel Bruce’s 3 stars of data-driven infrastructure

“This is kind of like asking what electricity looks like: it doesn't so

much look like anything, as it makes certain things possible”

Karen Coyle

Ecosystem

"UK researchers and students will have easy, flexible, and ongoing access to content and services through a collaborative, aggregated and integrated resource discovery and delivery framework which is comprehensive, open, and sustainable.“ http://discovery.ac.uk/

Human ecosystems... 1

Human ecosystems... 2

Let your data be promiscuous

Effort

Reduction Redistribution of effort

From

Chore to

CorePaul Walk, UKOLN.

Data as iterative

databegets

data

Protecting the future from the past!

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/knowledgebaseplus/

Eventualities

The library as ‘start-up’

Scratch an itch: Pitch!

Human infrastructures

Think like a dandelion!

Data

Domain Expert Developer