The-Value-of-JISC-to-Higher-Education

							The Knowledge
  Exchange
  Presentation to CNI
       April 2005

 Bas Cordewener, SURF
 Sigrun Eckelmann, DFG
 Norman Wiseman, JISC
                        Programme
   Overview

   Partners

   Vision and Aims

   Objectives

   Scope

   Other International Relationships

   Next Steps
                              Overview
   Better sharing of
       Information

       Experience

       Expertise

       Strategy and Policy

   Between National representative organisations

   Central Office (in Copenhagen)

   National Representatives in each partner country
                    Vision


The Knowledge Exchange will add genuine
 value to the activities currently undertaken
       by a set of key bodies that have
     responsibility for information and
     communications technology (ICT)
  development in education and research
             within their nations.
Partners
                  DEF’s objectives
DEF (Denmark’s Electronic Research Library) is a co-
operation organisation for Danish research libraries.
The co-operation includes:
    Common     development in cases where co-operation is
     more beneficial than the sum of local initiatives,
     resulting in better collective exploitation of the libraries’
     resources
    Further development of common network of
     information resources
    Collective mediation of research libraries’ information
     resources to the public
               DEF’s vision
“It is DEF’s vision that researchers, lecturers and
students have access to all relevant information via
user-friendly systems and high-quality guidance.
All aspects of researchers’ and students’ work with
information resources are thereby supported at the
highest international level.”
              DEF’s mission
“It is DEF’s mission to contribute to an optimal
exploitation of research-based information resources.
This happens through co-operation between library
partners, common development projects and the
establishment of a technical infrastructure
DEF’s target group is primarily serviced directly
through the institutions that participate in DEF
and via common services when appropriate”.
               Strategic action lines
   Technical frame and web environments
     System architecture
     Portals

     User facilities

   Content
       Licenses
   New applications
     E-learning
     E-publishing
          International co-operation
   DEF’s international involvement includes:
     Mediation - DEF promotes new knowledge from
      abroad among the research libraries and mediates
      Danish experience internationally
     Profiling - DEF profiles the co-operation between
      Danish research libraries internationally
     Benchmarking - DEF compares Danish results with
      international results to ensure continuous progress
     Co-ordination - DEF co-ordinates initiatives with
      other countries to avoid double development
    DEF and Knowledge Exchange (1)
   Ambitions and goals for KE:
     Exchange of knowledge to achieve better, quicker
      and cheaper digital development results for all
      partners
     Closer co-operation with prominent, national
      organisations in the digital learning, teaching and
      research areas in order to secure a common
      infrastructure environment for all partners
     Higher profiling of digital initiatives and DEF in the
      relevant Danish ministries resulting in more
      permanent funding
    DEF and Knowledge Exchange (2)
   Benefits for national agenda from KE:
     KE supports the Danish government in turning
      Denmark into a Knowledge Society
     The establishment and results of KE will extend the
      DEF co-operation model to university co-operation
      and merge efforts
     KE supports the consolidation and infrastructure
      activities of the Danish libraries
                                   DFG
Scientific autonomy in Germany:

The German Research Foundation (DFG)

                             Who We Are
                             • central public funding organisation for academic research in Germany
                             What We Do

                             • promote academic excellence on a competitive basis
                             • serve science and the humanities in all fields
                             • support the advancement and education of young researchers
                             • encourage international research cooperation
                             • foster links between science and industry
                             • advise parliaments and public authorities on research questions
                             • annual budget ca. € 1,3 billion ~ US$ 1.7 billion
Academic Library and Information Systems
- Budget (2005): € 30 Mio. ~ US$ 39 Mio.

Main areas of funding information infrastructure:

- Information Management: new instruments and methods for the
         information infrastructure management, for new and innovative data
         processing; support of net based information-infrastructure for
         research and digital publishing (subject based information nets)

- New Forms and Methods of Publishing

- Cultural Heritage

- Nationwide Library Services – Specific Virtual Libraries
International cooperation to develop a global information-
infrastructure

Expectations of Knowledge Exchange (1):

Sharing information and developing coordinated or even common

strategies in the fields of

•   international co-operation in processing digital contents; institutional
    repositories

•   international co-ordination of concepts for providing and managing globally
    distributed information systems

•   organisational and financing models for digital scientific information
•   archiving and preservation of holdings
Expectations of Knowledge Exchange (2):




•   to foster the networks of personal and institutional links

•   to contribute to European ICT research and development activities

•   to experience better understanding and appreciation of the differences in our
    national cultures
                   JISC : Strategic Aims
   To enable UK education and research to keep their activities world-
    class through the innovative use of ICT

   To provide advice to institutions enabling them to make economic,
    efficient and legally compliant use of ICT

   To help the sector provide a positive, personalised user experience

   To develop mutually advantageous partnerships with organisations in
    the UK and abroad

   To advise, inform and implement the strategies of government, funding
    councils and research councils.

…within a budget of €130 million/year
JISC: Activities
          SURF : mission and scope

SURF is the higher education and research partnership
  organization for network services and information and
  communication technology (ICT).


The Mission of SURF is to exploit and improve a
  common advanced ICT infrastructure that will enable
  higher education institutions to better realize their own
  ambitions and improve the quality of learning,
  teaching and research.

…within a budget of €300 million for 4 years
                        SURF – organization
                                                Innovation in
                                                Education, Research and
                                                Organisation




Gigabit Internet for Higher           Legal software for an illegal
Education and Research                price




                              Digital Learning Materials
            SURF – reasons to join
            Knowledge Exchange
   Belief that the mission and results of KE will help SURF to achieve its goals in the
    Netherlands and Europe

   Co-ordinated strategic level contacts with similar national funding & policy organisations;
    ‘peer’ organizations available for reflection

   The collaboration and forthcoming agenda is based on a shared need of advanced, well
    organised countries

   To realize a European competive international knowledge economy (Lissabon
    declaration) including a better position of the Netherlands in the OESO ranking

   Advising nationally with reference to Knowledge Exchange increases the impact of the
    advice

   The vision and demands of an advanced but small country like the Netherlands can be
    put forward with more impact to Europe / EU

   Help preserve European cultural diversity in HE and research and foster mutual
    understanding
                                       Aims
    The Knowledge Exchange aims to increase return on investment in ICT
       infrastructure, services and projects, and through this to improve the
                 quality of learning, teaching and research through:

    Better informed strategies

    Incremental approaches

    Reduced redundancy

    Raised profile for national research and development

    Collaboration on standards

    Better understanding of cultures and approaches
                               Objectives
   Closer working relationships

   Sharing information and expertise

   Joint activities – projects, programmes, dissemination

   Joint policy development

   Share best practice

   Brief EU to inform future funding

   Point of contact for others

   Develop common information infrastructure and services based on
    common standards
                              Scope
   Development and management of digital repositories

   Implementation of standards to support interoperability

   Best practice models for digitisation and quality assurance

   Policy sharing on licensing, digital rights management and
    copyright

   Middleware and security issues

   Strategies to promote and embed e-learning and e-research

   Sustainability issues
                                  Work Plan
   Year 1: Scoping
        Communications strategy, Dissemination strategy

        Strategic priorities

   Year 2: Piloting
        Repositories, standards and portals

   Year 3: Implementation
        Digitisation, licensing and digital rights management

   Years 4 and 5: Sustain
        Security issues, new systems (virtual learning and research environments)
               Other International
                 Relationships
   Point of contact in Europe

   Links to similar organisations world wide

   Joint activities with other, funded
    organisations
                       Next Steps
   Partnership Agreement signed June 2005

   Knowledge Exchange Office established in
    Copenhagen, Summer 2005 : Programme
    Director, Programme Manager, Admin Support

   National Representatives to be recruited Summer
    2005.

   Results and Activities from early 2006