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Enhancing access to e-resources.

Enhancing access to e-resources. Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN RSC-SW Meeting, Taunton. 2 nd July, 2003. Overview. About UKOLN What are the issues to consider? Some exemplars, tools and good practice guidelines Portals: what is their role? Embedding content: digital libraries and VLEs

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Enhancing access to e-resources.

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  1. Enhancing access to e-resources. Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN RSC-SW Meeting, Taunton. 2nd July, 2003

  2. Overview • About UKOLN • What are the issues to consider? • Some exemplars, tools and good practice guidelines • Portals: what is their role? • Embedding content: digital libraries and VLEs • Web-based developments: how to improve them • Questions and discussion

  3. About UKOLN • Core funding from JISC & Resource • Cross-sectoral remit • Our audiences include: • HE / FE (L&T, research, admin) • Cultural heritage (museums, public libraries, archives) • National libraries (British Library) • e-government (Office of the e-Envoy) • NHS / health sector • International digital library research community • University of Bath • 30 staff • Mix of technical support and development, advisory and research activities • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

  4. Finding (good) “stuff” Overload: the Google factor Relevance Provenance Quality-assurance Providing a full range of resources User requirements Selectivity Cost-benefits Licensing Management information Accessing resources Accessibility Legislation Re-using and sharing materials Learning object, data, article, image, program Interoperability or using common standards and protocols Training & support ??? What are the issues?

  5. How can you help learners to access e-resources more easily? • Portals: what is their role in presentation? • Embedding content: • Seamless access to quality-assured content • Integrating digital libraries and VLEs • Improving Web development activities • The importance of standards • Benchmarking principles • Exemplars and tools from UKOLN projects and services

  6. “a secure, single point of interaction with diverse information, business processes and people, personalised to a user’s need and responsibilities”IBM, 2003.

  7. “ an online service that provides a personalised, single point of access to resources that support the end-user in one or more tasks.”JISC, 2003.

  8. JISC Fair PORTAL project • www.fair-portal.hull.ac.uk • Exploring a wide range of issues relating to institutional portals, and the integration of national resources with institutional information and services. • Survey >600 responses + f2f consultation • Stakeholder requirements • What they want / don’t want • Literature review of outputs • Review of metadata standards for portal users e.g. eduPerson, IMS LIP • uPortal guide to follow shortly

  9. Ariadne Issue 35, 2003 Syndicated content….

  10. 7 x RSS Recommendations • Adhere to the standards • Ensure persistence • Don’t use too many feeds < 6 • Ensure currency • Each feed should have a purpose • Register your RSS feed • Create your textual content carefully

  11. Creating more RDN resources for FE • RDN4FE project (JISC X4L funding) • Record enhancement tool • Backend feature to increase records tagged for FE community • FE tagging • FE notes • FE subject (LearnDirect scheme) • FE level • FE colleges can • categorise and export their own records into RDN • import RDN records for local use • Testing now with 2 pilot colleges (Hammersmith & West London College & The Sheffield College)

  12. Embedding RDN resources summary • Working with the RDN http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/workingwithrdn/ • RDN-include and RDNi-Lite • > 100 downloads • RDN-Channel-Lite • Embedding RDN services into VLEs http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/rdnvle/ • RDN4FE project • rdn-support@rdn.ac.uk

  13. Providing Web good practice guidance • UK Web Focus – Brian Kelly • Promotes standards and best practice to the FE and HE communities • JISC W3C representative • Ariadne regular column • Web testing tools • Web Watch survey of server software • HTML standards compliance • Annual conference 11-13 June 2003 Theme: Supporting our users

  14. Ariadne Issue 35, 2003 A standards-based culture….

  15. Benchmarking your Web site: is it up to scratch? • Workshops for RSCs (Eastern and South-west) • Home pages: size, entry points • Validation, accessibility, broken links • Currency • Hits (popularity) • Statistics • Performance • Tools e.g. Bobby, WAVE, Dr Watson, NetMechanic, WebSiteGarage, Nedstat, DejaVu • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/rsc-eastern-2003/

  16. How you can help learners to access e-resources more easily • Portalise: make the presentation of resources user-friendly and attractive • Integrate: make access as seamless as possible through embedding tools • Standardise: use open source tools to fine-tune Web development activities • More info at www.ukoln.ac.uk

  17. Questions and discussion…….

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