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FAIR Projects Cluster Meeting - 5Mar2004
Introduction
A project meeting of JISC-FAIR Museum and Images Cluster Group was held on the 5Mar2004 at the AHDS Offices, London. This is a brief record of issues and tasks raised at the meeting.
Agenda
1. Apologies
2. Previous Minutes
3. Brief Project Updates
4. Issues Papers discussion
5. A.O.B
Attendees and Apologies
Roy McKeown (RM), Seamus Ross (SR), Chris Awre (CA), Margaret Markland (MM), Paul Miller (PM), David Dawson (DD), Sheila Anderson (SA), Margaret Greeves (MG), Shaun Osborne (SO).
Apologies: Jill Evans
Chair: Margaret Greeves
Margaret welcomed everyone and thanked SA for hosting the meeting again. Special welcomes to Margaret Markland and Paul Miller.
Previous Minutes
Noted
Projects Updates and Introductions
Margaret Markland, Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Library and Information Management, CERLIM. EDNER project to close in July, EDNER+ currently under taking a review of all project plans in the JISC Information Environment.
Paul Miller, JISC, Director of the Common Information Environment (CIE) and FAIR Advisory Board member.
Roy McKeown, Petrie Museum, Project: Accessing the Virtual Museum. 80,000 objects with legacy data from DCF collections management work. 2nd round of DCF funding coming to an end. Work being carried out under JISC-FAIR to revisit data with regard to specialisms in egyptology. Also Ken Dark and Anthea Harris reviewing approximately 3000-4000 coptic object records. Metadata to be OAI harvested by ADS. Project due to finish in July.
Shaun Osborne, Fitzwilliam Museum, Project: Harvesting the Fitzwilliam. Create
50,000 new object records, and approximately 100,000 digital images (images
for approx 30,000 object). Make 100,000 records available for
OAI harvesting via AHDS. Project on final phase, to end in July. Some
staff resourcing issues (2 staff lost). Looking carefully at sustainability
and synergies i.e. DSPACE.
RS commented that there may be issue with DSPACE particularly: hard to
build, many components therefore difficult to maintain. FEDORA is another
possible for digital reposititories as well as SRB/grid technologies.
CA noted that preservation reports are due soon and that commercial preservation systems very expensive.
Sheila Anderson, AHDS. Project: Partial Deposit. Manage
and preserve in distributed systems. Developing general process model
and implementation process model. Looking into metadata issues (support
OAI and Z39.50, extend OAI beyond DC? cross searching to object level
has lots of issues, what about and what is preservation metadata?).
Looking at technologies (OAI and Z39.50 being trialled with partners,
hotbed project with Courtald, preservation - how to sync preservation
copies with original repositories, risk assessment - at an early stage).
Looking at legal frameworks (licencing, IPR issues, 'creative commons')
CA - re 'Creative Commons'. Official project in Oxford and JISC 'share
alike' group. Two groups now aware of each other.
Chris Awre representing Project: BioMed Image Archive. Image Archive
has been established at ILRT, Bristol for five years. Under FAIR:
-
rebuild
system to include self-archiving, good progress, release in a month or
so
- many medical image implications and issues: patient permissions, university
permissions, need to satisfy wider community, these issues are beyond
the timetable of the JISC project.
Discussion:
- rights issues, many guidelines now available
- is there system applicability to general community self-archiving? e.g.
BECTA community programs? may not be so applicable in academic environment
- CELT centre - HEFCE call - pathology involvement from UoC
CA - JISC-FAIR programme meeting proposed 6-7 July, Brighton, to be co-hosted
with JISC-CNI meeting.
Action Item - Proposed SO present issue papers presentation
to JISC-FAIR programme meeting
Issue Papers
Roy McKeown. Metadata (draft
paper).
Overview: Concern on how to practically get to the 'wonderful
world' (of cross domain searching). DC probably has uses for cultural objects.
Highlighted paper is very draft. For metadata there needs to be knowledge
of the intended service provision. Maybe a move towards Collection Level
Description (CLD).
Discussion:
CIMI guide provides assistance for mapping cultural objects to DC
CLD - depth of records, CLD based on what? maintenance of CLD, user needs
of a CLD.
Sheila Anderson. Cross Domain Searching (draft
paper)
Overview: Different standards in different disciplines, what's the purpose
of the desired interoperability (audience needs)? Subject classification
important and can also change or be different for different specialisms.
Shaun Osborne. Images in Harvesting Model (draft
paper).
Overview: Issues surrounding image provision in the harvesting model
fall into four broad categories: audience
needs; image creation;
copyright and IPR issues; and
technical implementation.
A.O.B.
DD - gave a summary of the 24 hour museum pilot. Currently
challenges: ISO dates not working, GIS, publication place.
Action Item - SO to distribute URL of 24hr museum
test site to members. This will not be distributed further as agreed
by all at the meeting.
Cornucopia, RLSP examples of 'joined up' searching using collection level descriptions.
Should services be built to user needs or user needs be accommodated by using personalisation services?
CIMI to ceased operations in Dec03 (www.cimi.org)
CA- raised whether Service Provision Issues Paper was to be produced. No one project felt it had the resources to tackle this task. Decided to author jointly with Chris Awre as lead.
Action Item - CA to provide outline for issues paper on 'Service Provision' and all projects to provide input/content/comments back to Chris by a nominated date.
Action Item - All to provide feedback to 'managing authors' (listed above) of draft issues papers (metadata, images and cross domain searching) by 14May04.