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Methods for Sharing Online Resources December 2004

ESRC Society Today An Introduction. Methods for Sharing Online Resources December 2004. Introducing the vision. a first port of call for anyone interested in the UK’s society and economy a collaborative international platform for UK social science and economic research

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Methods for Sharing Online Resources December 2004

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  1. ESRC Society Today An Introduction Methods for Sharing Online ResourcesDecember 2004

  2. Introducing the vision • a first port of call for anyone interested in the UK’s society and economy • a collaborative international platform for UK social science and economic research • easy access to the latest knowledge generated from the ESRC’s research (and others) into a wide range of issues affecting modern British society • serving the needs of a broad range of users from academics through to government, business, media and the general public • Expanding and developing to provide access to a wide range of resources from both national and international sources • Supporting ESRC and National Strategies • Supporting ESRC funded and other UK social sciences research

  3. Content - Awards and Outputs • Current service (Regard) includes abstracts, end of award reports and bibliographical references to other outputs. • Extended service to include • plain English summaries • Facts, Figures and Training Materials (inc *.ppts) • easier access for award holders to update information • links to e.g. authors information, full text papers and articles • Managed services from Amaze • maintain research award information • support service for award holders • award holder survey at least annually • Move from ILRT early 2005 • Last “updates” to Regard service have now been made • Migration in progress • Continuation of forward linking until end March 2005

  4. Content - ESRC Centres and Programmes • Harvesting existing information from websites • To include briefing papers, presentations, events, news • Extend / maintain both their and ESRC identities • Archiving for completed programmes and centres • Inclusion of selected websites of other research awards • Provision of hosting for responsive mode mini-websites • Access to community “forum” tools

  5. Content - ESRC Sponsored Resources • Deliver users to the front door of appropriate content (dataset, abstract, etc) • Phased development: • By launch: deliver users at the front door of an appropriate dataset • Phase 2 enhancements: investigate deep links to selected subsets or extract subsets for ‘facts and figures’ section around specific themes. Within 1-2 years • Phase 3 enhancements: deep integration, but this might be overtaken by the next lifecycle of ESRC Society Today, likely to be largely influenced by the E Social Science developments and JISC research environment. Within 4-5 years. • Compatibility with current and emerging data standards

  6. Content - Third party materials • Access to an unusual wealth of information • non-ESRC quality research from, for example, government departments, research outcomes • published materials, those freely available and through commercial publishers. • Phased approach • Launch: proof of concept with 10 sites • Continued expansion of sites • Around social science themes • Around ESRC sponsored providers • Benefiting from wider developments • Impacting on wider developments

  7. ESRC sponsored resources MIMAS ESRC programmes and centres websites SOSIG IBSS Third party materials UK Data Archive Awards and Outputs Commissioned content Collaboration Email Alerts ESRC corporate content ESRC Society Today SEARCH

  8. Putting it into practice…

  9. IDOL Functionality Summarization Hyperlinking Alert & Delivery Education Categorization Agents Unstructured XML & Structured Audio Video People Community Clustering Collaboration Profiling Metadata Handling Retrieval Interfaces Intelligent Data Operating Layer Connectors LCM

  10. How it will work – homepage

  11. Registration

  12. My Contacts

  13. My Interests

  14. My Interests 2

  15. Search Preferences

  16. Searching

  17. Results

  18. How it will work – logged in

  19. Discussion Forum engagement

  20. Future developments • Other selected third party websites • Teaching and learning materials • Existing materials already produced in the community • Commissioned presentation materials • Other • Fact and Figures • Commissioned overviews on selected topics • Investigating deep links to subsets of datasets • Full publications • Pre/post print archives and open access journals • Possible extension to selected commercial suppliers • Society Today (news, features, comments, foreign correspondents, “A Day in the Life of…” etc) • International Relationship Building

  21. Giving it all a personality… • Strategic collaborations with • e-social science developments • Open access debates • Other funding bodies, such as JISC (service development, research environment, etc) • Learned Associations • Industry Bodies • Practical Collaborations with • Relevant ESRC and non-ESRC sponsored services • Institutional archives • The Media • “Creating linkage” • Discussion

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