stephanie taylor (ukoln) – metadata forum
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Repository Fringe 2011Edinburgh 4/August/2011
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TheMetadataForum
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 - [email protected]