People’s Network Discovery
Service
Cultural Content Contributors
Start-up Meeting
Welcome & Introduction
People’s Network Service cultural content contributor meeting, 27/04/05
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
• Housekeeping
• Note on nature of PN Discovery Service
project
• Note on meeting & project facilitators
• Note on attendees
• Aims of day
• Program / format
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
Housekeeping
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
Nature of PNDS and content contribution development:
• Fits into other programmes of activity inside and outside MLA
• contributes to growing global information sharing infrastructures and
services
• is innovative project (first in-service type of its kind?)
• rapid development project (brings time-pressures but will keep
activities focused)
• PNDS system developed by Sept 05
• Cultural content contributed from end of Jun 05
• Full PNS launched October 05
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
Facilitators & roles in contributing cultural content to PNDS:
• MLA
• service commissioners on behalf of public libraries and the wider sector,
(BLF funded)
• KINT:
• Primary software developers for PNDS system, responsible for practical
integration of data from contributors
• UKOLN:
• Expert advisory body, supporting PNDS content contributors as per nof-
digi programme and developing standards and guidance across CIE
• CIE:
• Stakeholder representing wider UK public sector bodies, including
research into application of Creative Commons for CIE
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
Attendees:
• PNDS cultural content contributors, funded
through MLA’s Sense of Place grant call (detail to
follow)
• PNDS cultural content contributors offering
content for launch/first year of PNDS (detail to
follow)
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Projects
• Sense of Place West Midlands NOF Digitise • Manchester City Galleries
projects www.digitalmidlands.org.uk • http://www.manchestergalleries.org.uk/
• The English Lake District - A Living • Revolutionary Players
Landscape www.cumbrialakes.org • www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk
• Westcountry Studies Library • Ferranti Collection
www.devon.gov.uk/etched www.msim.org.uk/collections.asp
• Tyneside Life &Times • Collect Britain www.collectbritain.co.uk/
www.tynesidelifeandtimes.org.uk
• Picture the Past • ViewFinder http://viewfinder.english-
http://www.picturethepast.org.uk heritage.org.uk/
• Sense of Place South East www.sopse.org.uk • The Fitzwilliam Museum Online Public
Catalogue
• Sense of Place Suffolk http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/
www.senseofplacesuffolk.co.uk
• West Sussex Past Pictures
http://www.westsussexpast.org.uk/pictures
• Ten Generations
http://www.tengenerations.org.uk
• Lambeth Landmark
www.lambethlandmark.com
• Commanet community archives
www.commanet.org
• FARNE - Folk Archive Resource North East
http://www.folknortheast.com
• Dorset Coast Digital Archive
http://www.dcda.org.uk
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
• Aims of day:
• To hear more about the People's Network, especially the Discovery
Service, now in development (presentations)
• To learn about the technical architecture of the People's Network
Discovery Service (presentation & breakouts)
• To introduce all the projects participating and establish project
communication channels (presentations & networking)
• To clarify requirements for contributors regarding all issues arising when
contributing content (presentations)
• To gather issues from contributors perspective (breakouts & feedback)
• To define the next steps in the project (conclusions & action plans)
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Welcome & Introduction
Programme & format for day:
11:00 - 11:15 - Welcome and introduction to the day (MLA)
11:15 - 11:45 - Introduction to the People's Network Service and issues for content contributors (MLA)
11:45 - 12:00 - Technical Architecture Overview (Knowledge Integration)
12:00 - 12:30 Technical Architecture: Getting things Working (Knowledge Integration)
12:30 - 1:20 Lunch
1:20 - 1:30 CIE user-scenarios (CIE)
1:30 - 2:00 - Building on NOF-digi: Exploiting metadata (UKOLN)
2:00 - 2:45 Breakout sessions - main challenges (technical and other – All)
2:45 - 3:00 - Coffee
3:00 - 3:15 - Report back (All)
3:15 - 3:30 - Conclusions and next steps (MLA)