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Over the Shoulder

Over the Shoulder. Derek Law. Prescience. “The WWW is clearly an important tool for many applications and is expected to be so for some years to come” (AGOCG, 1995). The 1991 Agenda: Teaching. Specifying a student computer to extend ownership The virtual laboratory

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Over the Shoulder

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  1. Over the Shoulder Derek Law

  2. Prescience “The WWW is clearly an important tool for many applications and is expected to be so for some years to come” (AGOCG, 1995)

  3. The 1991 Agenda: Teaching • Specifying a student computer to extend ownership • The virtual laboratory • Software and courseware provision • Student support • Information site licences

  4. The 1991 Agenda: Research • Information filtering and navigation tools • Training in information management • Site licenses • Working with publishers on new models

  5. The 1991 Agenda: Administration • The MAC Initiative • Shared data with Europe • Paper free financial transactions • Training of staff • Acceptance of e-mail

  6. The 1991 Agenda: Academic Services • Convergence – or not • Shifting resource into support as students start to use IT • Dropping unit of resource • Bandwidth (the 300 baud modem) • Standards • Information Strategies

  7. The (J)ISC Agenda • Information strategies • Datasets policy development • A Libraries Initiative • Infrastructure to support teaching and learning • Electronic document delivery • IPR • SuperJANET rollout to some universities

  8. Conclusion “The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, But to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons” (David Butler, 1969)

  9. Infrastructure we got right - and wrong • RIGHT • BIDS, UKOLN, COPAC, AHDS, BUBL, EEVL, EDINA, MIMAS, National Cache, Mailbase, ATHENS, HENSA, CHEST, BUFVC, Ariadne • International Co-operation – CNI, NSF, Oz • WRONG TIMING • ROADS, Resource Discovery, National Site Licensing, OAI, HENSA, BUBL • RIGHT QUESTION WRONG ANSWER • AGOCG, Database Resources Research Group • NESLI

  10. The [Right] Five Principles • Free at the point of use • Subscription not transaction based • Universality of disciplines • Universality of levels • Commonality of interfaces • Common mass instruction programmes

  11. Right Attitude The intention is to initiate and drive change, “to shape the dialogue and debate” NOT simply to respond to change. Brindley and Law, 1997

  12. To Do List • Skype and VoIP • Shibbolleth • OAI • E-science and E-collection strategy • IPR • Location Independent Working • Continue international activity • Images

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