JISC Terminology Workshop Summary and Conclusions

1. Alan Robiette,JISC Development Group <a.robiette@jisc.ac.uk> JISC Terminology WorkshopSummary and Conclusions

2. Key themes Technology / new developments Service component emphasis User behaviour

3. Technologies KOS/NKOS themes KOS life-cycle Faceted classification Ontologies Representations KOS service protocols Etc..... Where/how does JISC engage with all this? Is service orientation the answer?

4. The IE Architecture authentication/authorisation services JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers service registries provision terminology services metadata schema registries brokers aggregators catalogues indexes resolvers institutional + user profiling services fusion OpenURL resolvers media-specific portals institutional portals subject portals learning management systems presentation end-user desktop/browser shared infrastructure

5. Service emphasis One terminology service or many? Finer granularity might be attractive (different services maintained by different communities?) Increasingly we are tending to think beyond the traditional JISC audiences So JISC might fund and maintain some widely-applicable services; with other providers possibly including other public sector bodies, research communities, professional societies and so on

6. The IE Architecture authentication/authorisation services JISC-funded content providers institutional content providers external content providers service registries provision terminology services metadata schema registries brokers aggregators catalogues indexes resolvers institutional + user profiling services fusion OpenURL resolvers media-specific portals institutional portals subject portals learning management systems presentation end-user desktop/browser shared infrastructure

7. User behaviour What do users want? And how does this relate to what they actually do? Two ends of the spectrum The specialised user: problems coping with ever-increasingly complexity of specialist terminologies The generalist user: problems of background, culture, vocabulary, engaging with classification at all

8. General discussion