JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories workshop

Digital repositories, working within an integrated information environment, offer the potential to underpin a step-change in education and research. This workshop will present the work JISC is funding to make this happen, and offer an opportunity for those working within universities to discuss how they might best exploit this work in their own context.

Pre-conference workshop at WWW2006

Digital repositories, working within an integrated information environment, offer the potential to underpin a step-change in education and research. Repositories enable universities and colleges to share and manage their intellectual outputs, making existing work easier, more effective and efficient, and supporting innovative teaching, learning and research practice. This workshop will present the work Jisc is funding to make this happen, and offer an opportunity for those working within universities to discuss how they might best exploit this work in their own context.

The aim of the workshop is deepen the shared understanding within the higher education community about the role of repositories. The target audience is researchers, teachers, managers and administrators who have an interest in sharing or managing the intellectual output of universities.

All presentations, details of closing panel and Q&A available.

Programme

1030-1045

Introduction to the Jisc Information Environment

Current repositories and shared services and portals and preservation work

Neil Jacobs

1045-1130

Repositories and scientific data

(20 mins) Digital repositories as a mechanism for the capture, management and dissemination of chemical data

Simon Coles

(20 mins) Project StORe. Linking research papers and research data:

possibilities for a generic solution

Graham Pryor

1130-1215

eLearning and Web2.0

(20 mins) Negotiating the relationship between informal methods of sharing, and more formal and institutional systems: the SPIRE

Dave White

(10 mins) Wikis and blogs as tools for distance tutors: the PROWE project

Neil Jacobs

(10 mins) Community dimensions – the CD-LOR project

Peter Douglas

1215-1315

Lunch

1315-1345

Vision and future for repositories

Getting organised: Jisc and digital repositories

Paul Ayris

1345-1430

Federation

(5-10 mins) Getting education community to agree to, and implement, interoperability standards

Neil Jacobs

(15 mins) A UK national repository search service: why and how

Linda Kerr

(15 mins) A repository network in Scotland: the IRI Scotland project

Philip Hunter

1430-1500

Tea

During which participants are asked to write questions on some flipchart paper / post questions into a postbox

1500-1540

Cultural change

(5-10 mins) Cultural change, organisational change and the Jisc FAIR Programme

Neil Jacobs

(15 mins) Achieving change by providing national repositories: PROSPERO and JORUM

Peter Burnhill

(15 mins) Achieving change by providing support for institutions

Amber Thomas

1540-1600

Innovation

Tools and innovation

Phil Vaughan

1600-1630

Panel / questions

From flipchart / postbox (see 'Tea').   Panel = all speakers

Neil Jacobs