United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking

Les TICRI au Royaume-Uni
JISC : une agence DCC : un réseau UKOLN : un acteur

UKOLN (United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking) est un centre d'excellence du Royaume-Uni sur les bibliothèques numériques.

Cette entité a été créée par l'Université de Bath en 1989 et est financièrement soutenue par le JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee).

Organisation

UKOLN est actuellement dirigée par Liz Lyon et est organisée en 4 services :

• Animation, communication (Community & Outreach) - 7 personnes
• Recherche et développement - 11 chercheurs (Research Officer)
• Logiciels et systèmes - 9 ingénieurs
• Administration - 5 personnes

UKOLN regroupe donc environ 35 personnes, issus des organismes qui montent des activités de recherche ou de service autour de l’information numérique scientifique.

Projets dans lesquels UKOLN est impliqué

Ce paragraphe est en cours de traduction et de classement. Une première section donne la liste brute initiale.

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   * Bibliographic management: Informational Web pages
   * Collection Description Focus: ensuring consistency and compatibility of collection description methods, schemas and tools across projects, disciplines, institutions and sectors
   * CRIS-OAR: Knowledge Exchange project to increase interoperability between CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) and OAR (Open Access Repositories)
   * DCC: The DCC provides a focus on research into digital curation expertise and best practice for the storage, management and preservation of digital information to enable its use and reuse over time.
   * DCC Scarp Project: aims to discover much more about disciplinary approaches by substantial case studies based on an immersive approach, where we will work in detail with projects over weeks and months rather than days. In addition, a strong aim of this project is not only to discover more about disciplinary differences, but also to apply known good practice, where possible to identify new lessons from practice in these discipline areas, and potentially developing new good practice, leading to real changes either in that discipline or in others.
   * Defining Image Access:: requirements for interoperable discovery and delivery of image data
   * DRIVER: an EC funded project building a production quality testbed for a Europe-wide digital repository infrastructure.
   * EASTER (Evaluating Automated Subject Tools for Enhancing Retrieval): to test and evaluate existing tools for automated subject metadata generation; to understand better what is possible and what the limitations of current solutions are; to make subsequent recommendations for services employing subject metadata in the JISC community.
   * FixRep: Enabling metadata triage: this project aims to examine existing techniques and implementations for automated formal metadata extraction, within the framework of existing toolsets and services provided by the JISC Information Environment and elsewhere.
   * Good APIs Project: a JISC-funded project which aims to provide the sector with information and advice on the factors that encourage use of machine interfaces, based on existing practice.
   * Grand Challenge Project: an EPSRC-funded project led by the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Department with UKOLN involvement
   * IMPACT: a European project that aims to speed up the process and enhance the quality of mass digitisation in Europe.
   * Interoperability Focus: UKOLN's Interoperability Focus team is responsible for exploring, publicising and promoting the benefits and practice of effective interoperability across diverse information sectors.
   * Intute Repository Search: Showcasing the content of UK repositories by developing a search service
   * JISC SIS Landscape Study: this blog has been set up to collect evidence for a small, JISC-funded study on how the UK academic sector is using Web 2.0 tools and services either in addition to, or instead of, JISC shared services.
   * RSS-xpress: create, update and register RSS channels
   * Repositories Research Team: supporting the JISC Digital Repositories Programme and the JISC Capital Programme Repositories and Preservation Strand
   * Repositories Support Project: building UK repositories and content
   * Start-up and Enhancement Projects Training (SUETr): UKOLN is the lead institution in this project, which will consult with the project staff in the Start-up and Enhancement strand3 to develop a complete landscape picture of their training requirements. This will inform the subsequent development of the training programme. Training modules will be developed in collaboration with other JISC projects and external experts, to be delivered through a selection of appropriate delivery mechanisms.
   * SWORD: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit
   * Tap into Bath: a source of knowledge about museums, art galleries, archives and libraries in Bath.
   * UK DCMI membership: as part of JISC's DCMI membership, UKOLN acts as managing agent to plan and coordinate UK DCMI activity jointly with JISC.
   * UK Web Focus: is a national Web co-ordinator post, funded by the JISC and MLA
   * Writeslike.us: a Rapid Innovation project: a JISC-funded project that explores the automated extraction of information about community structures. It is led by UKOLN at the University of Bath, with the University of Minho as a partner.

Soutien au programmme Information Environment du JISC

   * JISC Information Environment Architecture: supporting the development of the JISC Information Environment
   * JISC Information Environment Demonstrator: surfacing the Information Environment
   * JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR): a project to develop a pilot metadata schema registry for the JISC IE
   * JISC Information Environment Service Registry: a pilot project to investigate the requirements of a Service Registry for the Information Environment

Autour du Dublin Core

UKOLN développe une forte activité autour du Dublin Core.

• Un axe majeur est dédié à la définition et à l'utilisation des profils d'application du Dublin Core (Dublin Core Application Profiles -DCAPs). Il est organisé autour du projet Application Profiles Support project qui est financé par le JISC.
• La réalisation d'outils est illustrée par :
  • DC-assist : Un utilitaire d'assistance sur les métadonnées,
  • DC-dot : un générateur de métadonnées Dublin Core.
• Enfin le groupe de travail UK DCMI Affiliate anime la communauté des acteurs du Royaume Uni autour de cet ensemble normatif (en coordination avec le JISC).

Activités éditoriales

UKOLN édite deux revues numériques :

• Ariadne magazine sur les sciences de l'information et les bibliothèques,
• International Journal of Digital Curation pour le compte du Digital Curation Centre,

UKOLN gère également un site miroir de la revue D-Lib Magazine

Applications spécialisées

UKOLN est également impliqué dans des projets thématiques :

• eCrystal. Ce projet est piloté par le UK National Crystallography Service (Université de Southampton) avec un noyau dur de partenaires : UKOLN, le Digital Curation Centre (Universités de Bath et d'Edinburgh) et le Unilever Centre (Universite de Cambridge).

Voir aussi

Sur les wikis

Dans le réseau Wicri, les activités scientifiques de UKOLN sont signalées sur le wiki Wicri.

liens

• site web de UKOLN