Committee Type: Sub Committee
JISC theme(s): Information environment, Access management
JISC working group(s): Information environment working group, Scholarly communications working group, Strategic content alliance working group, Users & innovation: personalising technologies, JISC IPR Advisory Group
JISC services(s): OSS Watch, UKOLN, Jorum
JISC programmes(s): Core Middleware Infrastructure programme, Core Middleware: Technology Development programme, Digital Libraries in the Classroom programme, Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme, Digital Repositories programme 2005-7, JISC Frameworks programme, Portals programme, Presentation programme, Repositories and Preservation programme, Shared Infrastructure Services strand, Users & Innovation: Personalising Technologies, Digital Preservation and Asset Management, UK LOCKSS pilot strand
JISC Integrated Information Environment committee is responsible for ensuring the continued development of an online information environment to provide secure and convenient access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly and educational material, building on existing partnerships and forging new ones to contribute to a vision of a single, world-wide information environment.
Terms of reference
- develop an integrated technical framework and middleware applications (including authentication and authorisation) to facilitate interoperability across learning, teaching, research and their supporting systems
- identify and promote the use of relevant standards in the coherent management and delivery of resources that support learning, teaching and research across the JISC communities
- work with Museums Libraries & Archives Council, British Library, National Library for Health, e-Science Core Programme and others to develop the Common Information Environment to promote the use of common standards-based approaches to the management of on-line resources across public sector organisations involved in research and learning
- lead the development an integrated network of digital repositories and portals involving local, regional and national foci where appropriate
- develop appropriate tools and services for creating, describing, discovering, disclosing, and delivering online quality resources of all types, including data, text, images and sound
- provide advice and support to the community on the digital preservation of online resources
- advise on and determine the suitability of open source and proprietary solutions as appropriate
- advise on appropriate IPR, scholarly communications and DRM issues to protect the assets of the FE, HE and Research communities and to enable proper and effective use
- work closely with the JISC Learning and Teaching committee, JISC Support for Research committee, JISC Organisational Support committee and the JISC Content Services committee to ensure that the specific information management needs of the JISC communities are met
- work with JISC Content Services committee to establish mechanisms for services to work together effectively to provide the information environment; and with JISC Network committee and the JISC Support of Research committee to promote the development of appropriate network security applications
- liaise and collaborate with other relevant organisations (eg. MLA, British Library, NLH, e-Science Core Programme) to develop the Common Information Environment