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Joint Information Systems Committee Global Repositories Network? Dr Neil Jacobs
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Joint Information Systems Committee
Global Repositories Network?
Dr Neil Jacobs
Joint Information Systems Committee
Covering....
Reasons for a global network: why bother?
An ideal vision
Barriers and drivers
Challenges and opportunities
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Why bother? Open Knowledge
http://thand.wordpress.com/
Open knowledge is any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.
(Open Knowledge Foundation)
“...freely used, reused, and redistributed...”
• Financial (free, and sustainable)• Temporal (free now, and later)• Rights and rewards (free, and counted)• Technical (free, and usable)
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Why bother? Repositories
Science is about inferences made over data
Universities have a responsibility to the public
Repositories manage and share:
Linked (to enable inferences to be made)
Open (because it is efficient and effective, and aligns with university mission)
Trusted (provenance of assertions)
Data (observations, records, simulations, software, traces, literature, digital manuscripts, musical scores...)
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An ideal vision – piecing together the jigsaw?
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An ideal vision: socio-technical engineering
1970s proposal for electric car, based on a theory of post-industrial society and the demise of the internal combustion engine and the infrastructure that surrounds it...
1880s builds an infrastructure to enable the success of incandescent lighting, comprising patents, generators, regulatory frameworks, commercial companies...
Joint Information Systems Committee
An ideal vision: socio-technical engineering
1970s proposal for electric car, based on a theory of post-industrial society and the demise of the private internal combustion engine and the infrastructure that surrounds it...
1880s builds an infrastructure to enable the success of incandescent lighting, comprising patents, generators, regulatory frameworks, commercial companies...
2010s vision of a new repository infrastructure to manage and share linked, open, trusted data to support (post)industrial science?
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An ideal vision: features of the network
Dynamics:
1. System building
2. Technology transfer across domains and locations
3. gateways that allow dissimilar systems to be linked into networks
4. multiple systems assemble into networks, and networks into webs or “internetworks”
Designers need
“navigation strategies”
Joint Information Systems Committee
An ideal vision: features of the network
Dynamics:
1. System building
2. Technology transfer across domains and locations
3. gateways that allow dissimilar systems to be linked into networks
4. multiple systems assemble into networks, and networks into webs or “internetworks”
Designers need
“navigation strategies”
Local implementations, University Press, Institutional policies...
Eprints, Duracloud, Creative Commons...
Sword, OAI-ORE, COAR, SPARC
??
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An ideal vision: features of the network
(Adapted from recommendations to NSF)
It learns from the past and present (repositories have a lot of ‘past’ now!)
– Eg, content packaging, registries, semantic web... How do we learn?
It enables and rewards improved practice (see below)
– Requirements...
– Innovation...
– Infrastructure...
It has resilience, sustainability, and reach.
– Resilience – eg, managed LOCKSS-style approaches, embedded in academic policies and practice
– Sustainability – eg, Ithaka work, alignment with core academic principles
– Reach – it enrols people well beyond the academic sector (open innovation)
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Barriers
Path dependency
– OAIPMH? HTTP? Librarians?
Governance: “who decides on rules and conventions for sharing, storing, and preserving data?”
– ISO? COAR? IFLA? W3C?
Flexibility: “local variation vs. global standards”, cultures...
– North America, South America, Japan, Europe... (question for panel?)
Pragmatics and opportunities: ~ How can national and institutional repository development move forward without compromising possibilities for international or even global infrastructure formation?
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Challenges and opportunities“...enables and rewards improved practice“
Paul Walk, UKOLN
Joint Information Systems Committee
Challenges and opportunities“...enables and rewards improved practice“
Joint Information Systems Committee
Challenges and opportunities“...enables and rewards improved practice“
Joint Information Systems Committee
Challenges and opportunities“...enables and rewards improved practice“
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Thank you
Neil Jacobs
Skype: neil.jacobs1
JISC: www.jisc.ac.uk
