JISC has published an interview with Paul Miller, Director of the UK Common Information Environment. Excerpt: 'The Common Information Environment (CIE) are a group of public sector organisations who recognise that a lot of the content that we are placing online for our own audiences is also of relevance and interest to many others across a range of domains. These organisations include the BBC, Becta, The British Library, and the e-Government Unit at the Cabinet Office....We want to deliver useful shared solutions for end users wherever they might be in the UK....Individually the members each have their defined audience. In JISC's case that would be staff and students within the UK Further and Higher Education community. Collectively, the CIE could be seen to serve everyone in the UK....We are trying to move away from a ribbon cutting culture of creating numerous websites each with tightly coupled sets of content behind them. We are trying to broaden access to what we already have. We estimate that at least two billion pounds have been spent on digitising content in the UK in recent years. Most of that is actually quite invisible to the end user....The CIE draws upon a wealth of work by JISC and other members, and seeks to add value to this, or to look at ways in which content and services prepared for one audience, FE and HE say, might be repurposed for use with another audience....[A] number of the CIE partners are very interested in how they might work with Google to see how a number of services that we are working on can become visible through Google Scholar and any future solutions in this area.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/10/2005 06:37:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
