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Knowledge Exchange http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/
TF-EMC2, Lyon - 14 February 2011Christopher Brown
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German Research Foundation (DFG)
Denmark’s Electronic Research Library
Joint Information Systems Committee(United Kingdom)
SURFfoundation(Netherlands)
Shared aim: innovative use of ICT to support Research and Education
Who is Knowledge Exchange?
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Our vision“To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet”
Bonn October 2010
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KE Approach
By sharing knowledge, exploring differences, collaborating and promoting international dialogue, the Knowledge Exchange seeks to:• Increase the return on national investment in ICT
infrastructure, services and projects in higher education and research
• Add genuine value to the activities of the partners• Support the European agenda by promoting better access to
information resources in higher education and research• Create the optimal virtual environment for the Higher
Education and Research Community who need to choose from a wide array of possible technologies and approaches
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Working Groups
Primary Research Data Open Access Licensing Interoperability of Digital Repositories Virtual Research Environments
n.b. no Access & Identity Management WG as there is TERENA
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Activities in the years 2005 - 2010
Petition to EU for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results
Tender for Multinational Licences Institutional repositories workshop Amsterdam Project on enhanced theses Workshops on collecting usage statistics from
repositories Briefing papers on copyright and usage statistics
And also, 3 examples of activities since 2009 ...
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‘Costs and Benefits of Open Access in UK, Netherlands and Denmark’
• Three national studies during the first half of 2009• Joint study added value to already existing knowledge• Presented in seminar to European Commission
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Studies on Persistent Identifiers
Long term identification for storage & retrieval– complex field (many alternative developments)– need for open, non proprietary, trusted HE&R friendly system– Collaboration of KE and relevant external partners
State-of-affairs study regarding Persistent Identifier usage in 6 countries
User Requirements for a global resolver infrastructure
Roadmap to achieve a working global resolver service
June 2011 workshop
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Workshop (Berlin 23/24 Sept 2009)
‘Main drivers for successful re-use of research data’
Focus on benefits, challenges and obstacles of re-using data from a researcher’s perspective
Despite individual differences characterising the disciplines, recurrent pattern of comparable challenges and obstacles: Technical issues Methodological implications Social background Incentives for researchers required
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Workshop (Rotterdam 23/24 June 2010)
‘VREs– the next steps’Exchange of landscape studies (JISC and SURF)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/vrelandscapestudy.aspx
http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl/publicaties/Documents/Collaboratories%20Connecting%20Researchers9april.pdf
Variety of Projects in partner countries
Findings:
• Impact of VREs expected to grow further
• Facilitate international collaboration
• KE in position to work on this
Looking at strategic and sustainable funding issues
Workshop Nov 2011
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Way forward
• Continuing the exchange of knowledge• Informing and giving rise to other collaborations
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TERENA – TF-EMC2
Utrecht meeting – KE and TERENA
Technical perspective – related to TERENA work
KE moving away from tech focus and looking at strategy/funding long term
From KE:
– Researchers collaborating across national boundaries
– International projects with identity/middleware requirements
Contact VRE Working Group with any questions
“Interoperability of Digital Repositories” WG – more technical focus
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Questions?
http://www.knowledge-exchange.info
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