JISC Information Environment and Architecture, part 1

1. JISC Information Environment and Architecture, part 1 Alicia Wise and Andy Powell

2. Outline • Intro to the JISC • Collections • Services • Development Activities • Authentication and Security • Digital Preservation • Networking • Information Environment

3. The JISC is... • The Joint Information Systems Committee • Funded by the further and higher education funding bodies for FE and HE in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales through top-sliced money • Not a single committee, but a nested committee structure responsible for stimulating the innovative use of IT in learning, teaching, and research

4. Provides the network to all colleges and universities in the UK Provides electronic materials and services essential for learning, teaching, and research Funds research and development programmes Raises awareness, and provides support and training SuperJANET Up until now known as the “Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER)”. Includes collections and services under a variety of names and guises. Information Environment development, eLib, DNER development To senior managers and staff and, through some services, to students The JISC….

5. JISC Collections Research Data Learning Materials Indexed websites Abstracts Bibliographic databases Multimedia Maps Images Catalogues Sounds Journals Moving Images

6. Disability Support Service 14 Regional Support Centres JISC Services Data Centre Digitisation Service JISCmail Training Mirror Service Data Centre Cache Service TechLearn Data Archive IMS Centre ATHENS Data centre Software Neg. Team UKOLN Mirror Service Arts and Humanities Data Service Network Mgmt Service

7. JISC Development Activities • Authentication and Security • Deploying the ATHENS system • Rolling out single sign-on functionality • Piloting the use of digital certificates in institutions during the next academic year • Digital Preservation

8. Why do we need digital preservation? If purchasing digital content: electronic publications are transient - to maintain access to holdings/subscriptions requires action doing nothing means maintaining both electronic and paper with static or declining funding If digitising: maximise the useful life of the content and the investment made by funding bodies and institutions not preserving costs staff resources and money to re-create content (and may damage originals) may be a requirement of funding bodies and increase likelihood of proposals being funded Build cultural heritage and the knowledge base

9. Digital Preservation Coalition • Aim of Coalition is to develop the UK digital preservation agenda within an international context • Core of 19 member organisations • Plus associate members and allies

10. JISC Development Activities, cont. • Networking • GRID – a researcher-driven international programme to create a specially designed software environment for facilitating collaboration, controlling remote experiments, and managing vast quantities of data. • Internet 2 • SuperJANET 4 developments • Information Environment • Informed by digital library developments • Informed by enterprise portal developments for educational institutions

11. Challenge 1 – changing ways in which researchers work and collaborate Reading Analysis Discover Registration Awareness Writing L o c a t e Authoring Certification Preservation Visualisation Access Processing Secure, High-Quality Network

12. Web Web Web Web Web Challenge 2 - Standalone Content Content (local and remote) • Many different services • Each has own user interface • Each has a learning curve End-user

13. Use Access Discovery Web Web Web Web Web Information Environment: Functional View Content (local and remote) End-user