Presentation made to CETIS Specialist Interest Group, at University of Bolton, 6 May 2008

1. National Rural Knowledge Exchange CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG 6th May 2008 Roger Greenhalgh Information Manager (Information Architect ?! )

2. 1976 - joining things up

4. The National Rural Knowledge Exchange A 14 University Consortium: Newcastle Central Lancashire Hull Keele Birmingham Harper Adams Warwick Worcester Royal Agricultural College West of England Gloucester Writtle Reading Bournemouth Initially planned to ‘broker’ (personally & via email) the following Knowledge Transfer services of the 14 Partners: - Joint projects - Consultancy - Bespoke training courses - Lab and field trial facilities - Visiting speakers - Graduates on short or long-term placements schemes, including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (aka Teaching Company Schemes)

5. Practitioners Universities & their Rural Departments Research Institutes PLCs Are Research Priorities right? Consultants Individual clients Clubs and Hubs Land-based Colleges Academic Journals Trade Press Product sales licensing A Rural Knowledge Supply Chain.. ??? Academic conferences Open Days Shows Talks, meetings Technical conferences Skills & business training Graduates LANTRABus Link RDAs FBAS, RDS Etc etc Talking to friends

7. Portal focus Current distribution of rural organisations in our ‘National Rural Directory ’ National coverage + local and regional relevance and usability

9. National Rural Portal (2006 - to date)

10. Listing and Searching

12. Nationally and regionally…

13. Organisationprofiles

14. Relationships between organisations

16. Syndication

18. JISC e-infrastructure

19. N-tiered infrastructure  www.nationalrural.org website RSS / ATOM /XCRI / XML data feeds : inbound and outbound  bulk email updates Workflow Business logic layer Presentation layer Data access layer Data storage layer AD provider SQL provider Active Directory name service SQL2005 database Google map tiles Access management Serialisation: self-instantiation & self-actualisation of business objects Process scheduling Content management & moderation Location geocoding NationalRural web application Land-based Library web application  www.landbasedlibrary.org website Accessions management & moderation Full text indexing MS Windows file storage Video-streams Web-services & APIs Object inter-relationships  Micro-sites  Sub-sites Access & ownership

22. Aggregation