Knowledge Exchange – scholarly and scientific information openly available on the internet –

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This presentation

Knowledge Exchange

Context and Challenges

Ambitions and Priorities

Common Interest US & Europe

The presenter

Bas Cordewener

manager international collaboration, SURFfoundation

cordewener@surf.nl

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Introduction

Initiative established in 2005

Members are four organisations which have responsibility for technology development in education and research within their nations

Purpose is to add value to current activities; to increase return on investment of funding partners; and to improve quality of learning and teaching and research

Method is structural knowledge exchange facilitated by staff; stimulate expert networks and co-ordinated activities; exchange strategies; explore policy opportunities to ’speak with one voice’

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Strategic Vision

To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet (October 2006, Berlin)

building an integrated repository infrastructure exploring new developments in the future of publishing facilitating integrated management services within education and research

institutions supporting the European digital libraries agenda

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Achievements

Collaboration makes a difference promoting Open Access via a petition to the European Commission exploring new content packages and innovative business and license models

Community became involved experts working groups exchange and recommend participation from partner countries, across Europe and beyond

Effective brokerage, sharing and exchange studies, networks, trends, stratregies comparing approaches, procedures, programmes

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Examples of community activities

Open Access establishing an European evidence base of economics of Open Access promoting (the principles) of the License to Publish and License to Depot workshop for OA friendly publishers to improve transition-to-OA expertise participation of SPARC Europe

Access Management regular exchanges and updates about national developments establishing (con)federations – encouraging publishers to join promote use of SAML 2.0 (simpleSAMLphp)

Institutional Repositories joint projects/actions on Enhanced Publications (e-theses & dissertations); CRIS-OAR

interoperability; Persistent Identifiers participation of France, Sweden, Australia, Norway

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European contextAim is to transform the 23 countries in one transparent economic entity and

information society

Requirements interoperable and open areas for business, education, research, information flexibility and mobility of people, goods, work and information

Policy drivers Bologna Declaration (1999)

Bachelor Masters, mutual accreditation, quality assurance to support student mobility and educational flexibility

Lisbon Strategy (2000)Europe aims to be a competitve and dynamic Knowledge Economy

Berlin Declaration (2003)all university research output should be made openly available to the public

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European impactPositive developments Bologna Declaration

national approaches are harmonising at great speed

Berlin Declaration and EU projects like DRIVER a European approach to ownership of publicly funded knowledge is

emerging

EC significantly funds activities in Technology, Education and Research

Challenge coordination national impact sustainability

Realisation of a European e-infrastructure for Education and Research might benefit from being closer informed by national policy; broader consultation needed

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European technology infrastructure?

there is no blueprint for a European technology infrastructure

in semi-federated Europe, research approaches, infrastructures and governance are diverse and not easily aligned

diversity in available resources and expertise impacts the capacity and quality of existing national IT infrastructures

existing national organisations influencing IT infrastructure policy should be involved

researchers, as good pioneers, individually have less intrinsic interest to care for a generic technology infrastructure

Above are drivers for establishing Knowledge Exchange

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Knowledge Exchange with ambition

Potential at similar level of IT infrastructure provision leaders in technology infrastructure development able to share and develop in thought and action growing confidence to align strategies and

speak with one voice

Approach 2008-2010 continued structural exchanges for mutual benefit focus on new priority areas (next slide) provide a source of expertise that can help shape policy of EU.

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Future Priorities

Virtual Research Environments understand the many layers and interaction (GRID, collaboratories, data manipulation) focus on generic approaches, researchers needs, transnational ERA structures

Primary Research Data involve various stakeholders in dialogue, raise awareness for preservation and access define challenges and changing roles, develop strategic policy

European Digital Library inform partner investment in and support to digital libraries in order to develop

– strategies for content creation, including digitisation. – registries of digital collections and services– interoperability frameworks

EC interaction frequent dialogue on relevant issues, contributing to the strategic planning cycle inform each other, so potentially strengthen European and national programmes

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US and Europe shared objectives

Improve the user experience for US and EU scholars no limits to mobility, flexibility no limits to accessibility to increase quality

Better serve the economical and societal needs integrated teaching & learning and research environments better, faster research development and productive use better educated workforce

Increase the return on investment in shaping the technology infrastructure build upon each others creativity, expertise and experiences effective and efficient use of resources provide options for and anticipate on interoperability

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US and Europe common interests (1) Bachelor Master system

EU harmonisation includes accreditation European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), Diploma Supplement European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)

quality reference framework

Towards a global standard ?

FederationsNational federations develop in many EU countries, concerning public and private service and content providers evolvement into federations of federations registration bodies and definitions of levels of trust.

Trust development between US and Europe axis is essential ?

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International developments Open Access principles / business models) development; National and/or Institutional Repository interoperability standards development

Now is the time for alignment ?

International governance & quality management a transparent environment (e.g. Repositories, Open Access, Federations, IPR) for

stakeholders and actors that increasingly operate globally and need to work together

encouragement for inspiring innovations is still needed (User Services, Business Models, Data Control) - developments have not yet reached their full potential

build stability, manage expectations, define roles for service providers, information and content providers, registration organisations; identity and security levels

This can only be achieved crossing KE, EU, and US borders ?

US and Europe common interests (2)

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Questions or comments?

More information on Knowledge Exchange website: www.knowledge-exchange.info