stephanie taylor (ukoln) – metadata forum

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Stephanie Taylor, UKOLN, University of Bath

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About Me

Stephanie Taylor:• Work with UKOLN as a research officer• Work on the practical side of institutional

repositories• Run the Metadata Forum

UKOLN:• National centre of expertise in digital

information management• Located at the University of Bath

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TheMetadataForum

• Run by UKOLN• Funded by JISC• Aims to build a community of practice around

metadata• Forum blog -

http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/themetadataforum/

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The Forum Is…

• For everyone who uses metadata in their work, in any way

• For any level of knowledge & experience

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Launch - July 2010

• Open Repositories Conference, Madrid• Decided on a way to start running the Forum• Community led• 14 people attended

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What happened?• People from England, Wales, Scotland,

Ireland and the USA• Discussed complexity v simplicity• Future themed meetings agreed

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Repo Fringe 2010• Round Table session• Metadata for time-based objects• Aggregation of metadata• Helped by Sheile Fraser of EDINA

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AgLR-TF• Agricultural Learning Repositories Task

Force (AgLR-TF)• Ran session with Jackie Wickham of RSP• Basic metadata startup• Interesting…

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Complex Objects, York

•Images•Audio & video•Learning & teaching objects

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Picture This!• Dev8D+• Hack event• Practitioners & developers working together

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Perfect Partners• Developer Challenge over 3 days• Embedded geospatial image metadata within map images• Dynamically modified images to include a logo displaying the licence

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What Did We Learn?• Gap between novice & expert• People need to talk!• Much more to explore…

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What’s Next?• JISC funding for another 12 months• New programme• Same informal, community-led approach

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Ideas..• Gap between novice & expert• People need to talk!• Much more to explore…

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More Focussed Meetings

• Images• Music• Scientific Data• What else?

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Micro Communities?

• Areas of shared expertise• Smaller comunities of interest• Place to go for hands-on help

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Online Workshops?• Currently working on Dublin Core workshop• Trial as online resource as well as face-to-face• Useful?

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Join In…• Let me know - • What you want to find out about• What you could share knowledge on• Any ideas at all!

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Talk…• Blog - http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/themetadataforum/• Twitter - @metadataforum• Email - s.taylor@ukoln

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Thankyou!The Metadata ForumStephanie TaylorResearch OfficerUKOLN, University of BathE - s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk