Support Infrastructure
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The Standards Catalogue is designed to provide brief, focussed information on standards which are relevant to JISC's development programmes. Apart from a risk assessment section, the catalogue does not provide advice on implementation architectures, decision making processes, etc.
Advice and support has been provided elsewhere. The following links may be useful to those involved in JISC-funded digital development work.
- QA Focus
- The JISC-funded QA Focus project, provided by UKOLN and AHDS, developed a wide range of briefing documents which give brief, focussed advice on various aspects of development work. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/].
- Netskills
- Netskills, a training organisation based in Newcastle which is partly funded by the JISC, provide a variety of training courses related to the development of networked services. For further information see <http://www.netskills.ac.uk/>.
- TASI
- TASI, a JISC-funded advisory service based in Bristol, provide advice related to creation of and use of digital images. For further information see <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/>.
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Support Provided Within the JISC Standards Catalogue
A limited amount of support is provided within the standards catalogue itself. The format of this support is as follows:
- Catalogue entries contain a section entitled Risk Assessment. This allows the authors of the sections to flag potential areas of significance in which there may be difficulties in deploying the standards.
- Catalogue entries contain a section entitled Further Information. This contains links to resources providing further information about the standard. This may include links to the standard itself and links to information about the standard. In many cases links are provided to entries held in Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been chosen as this community-developed encyclopaedia has the potential to be kept up-to-date with the involvement of a globally-wide community. However there is a need to treat entries in Wikipedia with care as the content does not undergo a formal reviewing process.
