Joining up content

Andy McGregorProgramme Manager

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There’s treasure everywhere...

The resource discovery taskforce members

What resource discovery infrastructure would you build if you could start from scratch?

Agreement over metadata

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Disagreement over services

08/04/2023 | Supporting education and research | Slide 5

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Looking beyond our silos

NO

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Are you just talking about mashups?

What do we mean by services?

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Yes. But no. But yes....

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Mashups aren’t just experimental or playing...

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Interesting new juxtapositions and interfaces

For example:

better search

mashups and visualisations

aggregation and normalisation of metadata

enrichment of metadata

collection management

shared cataloguing

in depth resources exploring specific topics

Enabling an ecosystem of services

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What might this mean for you?

We don’t have answers yet, but...

We have ideas over metadata approach http://rdtfmetadata.jiscpress.org/

We have funded experiments with open reusable data from libraries, museums and archives – a lot of these projects are evaluating a linked data approachhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/infrastructureforresourcediscovery.aspx

And...

We'll make advice and guidance on this available

We'll devote effort to aggregating content and to building services that use content from a range of places in innovative ways

Where to find information

The RDTF website: http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk/

A blog on all the recent work and how it fits together: http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/03/09/what-weve-been-up-to/

The RDTF newsletter: http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk/newsletter/

What do you think?

We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas

Contact:Andy McGregora.mcgregor@jisc.ac.uk@andymcg