JISC Terminology Services WorkshopCBI Conference Centre, London13 February 2004 |
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JISC Terminology Services WorkshopCBI Conference Centre, London13 February 2004 |
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Vice President for Research, OCLC. He oversees the work of the Office of Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team. Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN), founding co-Director of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource (JISC, DNER).
Lorcan Dempsey writes and talks about libraries and networked information. He is interested in the impact of changing patterns of research and learning on libraries, in libraries as public institutions, and in the architecture of digital information environments. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries.
As our digital environments embrace richer services, our expectations about how they will be built and used are changing. We recognize that we need to manage a range of resources: not only documents, learning objects, and data of various types, but also policies, rights, and vocabularies. Increasingly, we look on all of these as resources, available on the web in ways, which facilitate their inclusion in various service environments.
This presentation looks briefly at a range of terminology services (thinking primarily about people, places, and concepts), and considers what makes sense to provide within the JISC national service model. It considers some examples of user requirement.
It will provide some examples of terminology services made available through various protocols based on the work of OCLC Research.
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Is a librarian from New Zealand, who has lived in Scotland for seven years. In that time she has worked in a number of roles related to digital libraries, digital learning objects and repositories, controlled vocabularies, and interoperability. Her current job represents the first time a full-time librarian post has been created for a digital learning object repository in UK HE. Her major task will be the development of metadata policies and procedures, including an application profile, taxonomy and thesauri for the repository, digital rights management, and user interface. This work builds on the expertise and knowledge she gained over the previous 18 months as Coordinator of the CETIS Educational Content SIG.
Educational resources, in particular learning objects and learning activities, have distinct requirements in terms of shared vocabularies, taxonomies and so forth. Interoperability is a challenge in an area where different curricula exist even across the four countries within the UK, let alone beyond, plus different concepts and languages involved in the delivery of education. There are also a number of attributes that are unique to these resources that require the development of shared terminologies, e.g. Learning Resource Type, which are throwing up some knotty problems in the elearning community.
After a number of years as a manager in university administration, Peter set up and ran the UK office of an American educational travel organisation. He then managed the marketing and administration of City University's Courses for Adults programme. In 2001 he joined the Civil Service, working in new media. He took on his current role as Search and Metadata Manager last autumn.
An analysis of the search logs from UKonline, the government's information portal for citizens. We look at the terms used by users trying to find information on lifelong learning.
Education is a consistently popular search term, but more focused searches around 'lifelong learning' are less so.
combinations of "education" and other terms less so.
'Official' terminology is reviewed and compared with the terms that UKonline users have used.
Ben Toth is Director of the National electronic Library for Health and Head of Knowledge Management for the NHS Information Authority. Before joining the NHS Information Authority he worked in various information management roles in the NHS, Department of Health and at the University of Bristol.
Ben Toth trained in Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Library Science at University College London. He holds a PhD in Social Medicine from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Health Information Management from the University of Wales. He has served as a member of the UK eGov Metadata Working Group and is currently a member of the Editorial Board for NHS Direct Online and the Common Information Environment Group.
In his current position as Head of Knowledge Management he is responsible for delivering a range of products and services to the NHS, including the National electronic Library for Health (http://www.nelh.nhs.uk) and the nhs.uk (http://www.nhs.uk) programme.
He lives in Bristol with his 3 children and wife, a medical anthropologist specialising in palliative care.
As the NHS develops a digital NHS Care Records Service the need to share information has never been greater. This presentation will look at some of the key challenges and potential solutions.
David is the Senior ICT Adviser within the Libraries and Information Society Team (LIST) of Resource.
David studied Archaeology at Durham University, and completed the Museum Studies Course at Leicester in 1985, and later becoming an Associate of the Museums Association in 1988.
His first post in a museum was working on a documentation project, completing cards for the archaeology collections of the Museum of Sussex Archaeology. He then worked for Canterbury City Museums, becoming Curator of Human History. While in Canterbury he worked on the displays of the new Canterbury Heritage Museum, and helped commission a new museum store. In 1988 he moved to Oxfordshire Museums Service as Assistant Keeper of Antiquities, taking on responsibility for documentation in the County. He then became Curator of the County Museum and Head of Documentation.
He joined mda in 1992, as Business Manager of mda Services, before becoming Outreach Manager (ICT), giving advice and training to museums in documenting their collections, with a focus on helping small museums as well as working with a number of museums in the UK and abroad. Whilst at mda, he was closely involved in the development of the Aquarelle Project.
In 1998 David joined the Museums & Galleries Commission as New Technology Adviser, before becoming Senior ICT Adviser. He managed the DCMS/Resource IT Challenge Fund, and is currently working on a range of other projects and strategic developments. He represents Resource on many different Groups and initiatives including:
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Director of HILT Phase 1 and HILT Phase II projects
This paper will briefly summarise outcomes from the HILT Phase II project. HILT Phase II was funded to set up a pilot terminologies service for the JISC Information Environment, aiming to:
This was its main focus. From the first, however, it was recognized that the successful resolution of the interoperability issue requires a constructive working relationship between JISC and other interested parties. This recognition is reflected in the project recommendations, which propose that JISC begin a dialogue with key national and international players. It is also reflected in the proposed design itself, which assumes, amongst other things:
Rachel Heery works for UKOLN as Assistant Director leading the Research and Development team. Rachel has undertaken research over recent years in the field of metadata, resource discovery and information architectures. She brings to this role wide experience of the implementation and development of information management systems in the commercial and library sectors. She has a particular interest in schema registries and application profiles, and is currently working on the JISC IE Metadata Schema Project, a shared service within the context of the JISC IE. Rachel has been active in the development of the Dublin Core, has published in the area of metadata management and given presentations at a number of international workshops and meetings. She co-chairs the DCMI Registry Working Group, and is a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board.
A brief review of issues related to delivering terminology services within the context of the JISC Information Environment. Taking potential HILT terminology services the presentation will explore how these might be delivered in future as m2m services
Consultant in information management with a particular interest in subject indexing, thesauri and classification schemes. Until January 1994 I was Head of Library and Information Services at the Science Museum, London and before that Head of Information and Research Services in the Library of the City University, London.
Summary of my report on the HILT project as external evaluator:
The general approach and proposals of the HILT project are reasonable and worth pursuing. The creation of a centralised classified catalogue of resources, with an index, which is added to as required to accommodate sought terms, is desirable and achievable.
Some underlying problems in mapping of compound concepts need to be investigated further and solutions found before investing in major mapping or terminology service implementation work.
Until mapping problems have been solved and mapping work completed, provision should be made for enquirers to be switched from the central classified catalogue into the local subject systems of collections identified as relevant. Any service of this kind will have to be sustainable in the long term.
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt2web/finalreport/Kevaluation.docIs a Reader in the School of Computing and leads the Hypermedia Research Unit. Before joining the University of Glamorgan, he worked as a Programmer/Analyst, at the University of California, San Diego for the Hubble Space Telescope Project.
His main current research interests are in the intersecting areas of digital libraries, hypermedia and the emerging semantic web/grid. Recent work includes the EPSRC funded FACET project which investigated the integration of a faceted thesaurus into the search interface, together with semantic query expansion techniques for searching and browsing. Other research interests include the application of interactionist social science perspectives to HCI and Participatory Design. Since 1977, he has been Editor of the journal, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. For more information and recent publications, see http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dstudhope/
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Fred has worked on a range of government Community ICT initiatives, particularly relating to the CALL program. As part of the support work for Community Grids for Learning he worked on the Metadata for Community Content project, which looked at the issues in modelling androgenic approaches to learning. This work resulted in the "Community Development Model for Learning" (NESTA Futurelab) and an "Amazon for e-gov" (DfES Cybrarian). He is currently develop metadata for the NLN-ACL site aclearn.net which is attempting to develop a definitive sector subject for ACL in partnership with LT Scotland, Manchester Community Information Network, CETIS and others. He is also on the Technical Panel of the DfES Cybrarian project.
How can general classification schemes be made more relevant for wider user base, including school children, FE students, ethnic groups?
Does this require specific terms sets to be established?
Who are responsible for doing the work, the owners of the classification schemes, user community or other organisations?
How can these issues be resolved for Content initiatives like Curriculum online, NLN online, Cybrarian and others as they become increasingly cross-sectoral.
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Is responsible for middleware development for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which provides national infrastructure and services for UK further and higher education.
Alan is a physical scientist by training and pursued a teaching and research career in chemical physics for a number of years. Following a move into IT management, he was an IT Director for some 15 years, working in some of the country's leading HEIs. He is a former member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and has served on numerous national committees and other bodies related to computing and computational research.
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