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Joining it all up : Information management in a virtual world

Joining it all up : Information management in a virtual world. Kate Fernie kmf2@york.ac.uk. HEIRNET. HEIRNET. Historic Environment Information Resources Network. HEIRNET. http://www.britarch.ac.uk/HEIRNET/. What is an HEIR anyway?. Problems for users:. Where do you begin?

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Joining it all up : Information management in a virtual world

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  1. Joining it all up:Information management in a virtual world Kate Fernie kmf2@york.ac.uk HEIRNET

  2. HEIRNET Historic Environment Information Resources Network HEIRNET http://www.britarch.ac.uk/HEIRNET/

  3. What is an HEIR anyway?

  4. Problems for users: • Where do you begin? • Lots of separate resources • Analogue & digital • Variable promotion HEIRNET

  5. Joining it all up: first steps HEIRNET http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirnet/

  6. Joining it all up: next steps http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirport/

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  8. CANMORE SCRAN ADS Portable Antiquities

  9. Happy User Joined up doing = interoperability H E I R P O R T PAS Canmore ADS SCRAN Single access point Network services Aggregate content Standards… Content HEIRNET

  10. How are we doing it? • Interoperability = Standards • Z39.50, Dublin Core, Bath profile, CIMI profile, XML etc. • Semantics • Agreement between partners Target specification: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirport/about.html HEIRNET

  11. How difficult it is? • Technology is tried & tested • Standards exist • Becoming easier to implement • The content is there But… HEIRNET

  12. Whose portal is it anyway? Interoperability = people • Decision makers • Techies • Curators • Users HEIRNET

  13. Decision makers • Strategy • Bid for resources • Staff training & development • Image • Agree to collaborate HEIRNET

  14. The techies

  15. The curators • Quality assure resources • Develop vocabularies • Mediate content • Support users HEIRNET

  16. Users • Logs suggest good take up • The user paradox • Learning & teaching • What is the market? HEIRNET

  17. Developments HEIRNET http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirport/

  18. Issues • Strategic development • Agreements between sectors • Language • Finding resources HEIRNET

  19. Any questions? http://britarch.ac.uk/heirnet/ Kate Fernie kmf2@york.ac.uk HEIRNET

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