Discovery Guidance and Case Studies
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The Case Studies in this guide focus practice and outcomes relating to the Discovery open metadata principles and technical principles. Drawing on real life examples wherever possible, the case studies and supporting guidance materials seek to answer the questions of “Why should my organisation be interested in Discovery?” i.e., the business case, and “How can my organisation publish data for Discovery?” by detailing their approaches.
By exemplifying the business cases and approaches for a wide range of different types of organisations, from large university research libraries or national museums with multi-million pound budgets, through to small archives with minimal staffing available, we hope to enable organisations to use the lessons from the case studies and guidance to plan their own contribution to the Discovery ecology.
The Guidance section, provides more explanation on the technical and metadata aspects described in the case studies, aiming to demystify some of the major terms that now dominate this space. This guidance is not exhaustive, comprehensive or technically detailed. Instead, it aims to provide some background for those considering these issues perhaps for the first time, facilitating dialogue with developers, aggregators, or systems vendors.
The JISC -funded Discovery programme was launched in May 2011 to create ‘a metadata ecology’ to support better access to vital collections data in libraries, archives and museums and facilitate new services for UK education and research.
The programme is focused on advocating open data, reducing technical and licensing barriers, providing information, advice and training, and supporting exemplars.
The Discovery programme takes forward the Vision of the earlier JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF) which has been working with partners from the libraries, archives and museums since 2010.
