This is a copy of the presentation I gave at UKSG 2012.

1. Monday 26th March. UKSG, Glasgow.
Presenter or main title…
Session Title or subtitle…
Data-Driven Library Infrastructure:
A UK perspective

2. Ben Showers
Programme Manager
b.showers@jisc.ac.uk
@benshowers
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

4. www.flickr.com/photos/h
umanoide
Supporting the innovative use of Information and
Communication Technology (lCT) in support of
learning, teaching, and research

5. Outline
1. Current Picture
2. Data-Driven
3. Benefits and
Implications

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fz
mmrk6kk

7. 3 themes
Ecosystem
Effort
Eventualities

8. The current picture
Systems and services designed
as discreet solutions
System and service
redundancy

9. The current picture
vertically
Thinking

10. Data-Driven Infrastructure
Ambient data Dynamic data

11. Three Stars of Data-Driven
Infrastructure
Reusable data
Reusable vocabularies
Joined data up
Rachel Bruce’s 3 stars of
data-driven infrastructure

12. “This is kind of like asking what
electricity looks like: it doesn't so
much look like anything, as it
makes certain things possible”
Karen Coyle

13. Ecosystem

14. "UK researchers and students will have easy,
flexible, and ongoing access to content and
services through a collaborative, aggregated
and integrated resource discovery and
delivery framework which is comprehensive,
open, and sustainable.“ http://discovery.ac.uk/

15. Human ecosystems... 1

16. Human ecosystems... 2

17. Let your data be
promiscuous

18. Effort

19. Reduction
Redistribution of effort

20. From
Chore to
Core
Paul Walk, UKOLN.

21. Data as iterative

22. begets

23. Protecting the future
from the past!
http://www.jisc-
collections.ac.uk/knowledgebaseplus/

24. Eventualities

26. The library as ‘start-up’

27. Scratch an itch: Pitch!

28. Human infrastructures

29. Think like a dandelion!

30. Domain
Developer
Expert
Data