Welcome to Discovery

Towards a thriving metadata ecosystem

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.

Our work will continue to the end of 2012 and 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.

Project Findings & Lessons Learned What we've learned from the 8 institutional projects that focused on making metadata about library, museum and archive collections openly available. Read More

 

• Discovery Open Metadata PrinciplesJoin the Resource Discovery Task Force partners in adopting a set of principles for opening up data.
• Feedback from the Community"Anything that helps people to make more meaningful use of resources is a good thing"
• Open Data – the Missing Link?Ken Chad positions Discovery in the context of global and national thinking.
• Connecting data; Connecting historiesTaking disparate or 'silo-ised' datasets and using lightweight technical approaches such as APIs to knit that data together in meaningful ways.
• Open Bibliography WorkshopDiscussion and debate during the day ranged over both technical and strategic issues.
• Jerome at the University of LincolnThe purpose of the Jerome project is a rather ambitious one.
• CoMET Sighted in the EastCOMET (Cambridge Open METadata) aims to release over 2.2 million catalogue records under a Public Domain Dedication License