Enhancing Linnean Online (#jiscelo) presentation for JISC Enhancing Sustainability Programme Meeting,14th March 2012

1. Enhancing
Linnean Online
University of London
Linnean Society of London
#jiscelo

2. The Great Linnaeus

3. Linnean Online Collections

4. Enhancing sustainability
● Stakeholder consultation and user survey:
identify key areas of value of digital
collections
● Enhancements to bind collections to the
needs of stakeholders
○ Society
○ Librarians
○ Curators
○ Researchers
○ Teachers
○ General public
● Post-implementation review

5. 1. Interoperability
● With other online life-science systems and
catalogues
○ Natural History Museum
○ Kew
○ Open University
● Linked data
● API functionality
● Emerging data visualisation tools

6. 2. User experience
● Overall presentation
● Discovery and navigation tools
● Evolving user expectations
○ Facebook
○ Twitter
○ Mobile / tablet interfaces
○ E-books / apps

7. 3. Metadata
● Enhance current metadata
● Implement new discipline-specific schemas
(e.g. Darwin Core)
● General metadata standardsschemas (e.g.
DBPedia)
● Search tools
● Linked data

8. 3. Metadata (2)

9. 4. Licensing
● Assert intellectual property and investment
of Society
● Support legitimate use of materials and
metadata (e.g. in blogs, teaching/learning
resources, VREs)
● Clearly expressed in human and machine-
readable form

10. 5. Revenue generation
● Can we enable established or innovative
revenue generating activities to support the
upkeep of the collections?
● Facilitate reuse of the materials
● Advertising?

11. 6. Digital Preservation strategy
● Review existing overall DP strategy
● Digital asset management processes
● Enhance/update where necessary

12. #jiscelo
Project Blog: http://jiscelo.blogspot.com/
Linnean Online: http://www.linnean-online.org/