Internationale ontwikkeling van een digitale bibliotheek in

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Internationale ontwikkeling van een digitale
bibliotheek in open access over
informatiebeheer

• Voordracht bij de Online Conferentie Nederland
  OCN2006 november 2006
• Paul.Nieuwenhuysen _at_ vub.ac.beVrije Universiteit
  Brussel Universiteit AntwerpenBelgië

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• About UNESCO-IOC-IODE
• Evolution and aims of OceanTeacher
• Structure and contents of OceanTeacher
• The size of OceanTeacher
• Challenges and bottlenecks related to
  OceanTeacher
• Plans for further development
• Evaluation of OceanTeacher
• Invitation to contribute

- contents - summary - structure - overview -
scope - plan of this contribution
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About UNESCO-IOC-IODE
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UNESCO gt IOC gt IODE

• UNESCO with headquarters in Paris, the United
  Nations organization for education, science and
  culture
• gt UNESCO-IOC The International Oceanographic
  Commission
• gt UNESCO-IOC-IODE The International
  Oceanographic Data and Information
  Exchange established by the IOC in 1960.

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The aims of UNESCO-IOC-IODE

• to facilitate and promote the exchange of
  oceanographic data and information
• to develop standards, formats, and methods for
  the global exchange of oceanographic data and
  information
• to assist member states to acquire the necessary
  capacity to manage oceanographic data and
  information and become partners in the IODE
  network

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE activities aimed at capacity
building
UNESCO
UNESCO-IOC
UNESCO-IOC-IODE
UNESCO-IOC-IODE capacity building
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UNESCO-IOC-IODE activities aimed at capacity
building

• National regional workshops and training
  courses
• Advisory missions
• Internships
• Regional Ocean Data Information Exchange
  NetworksFor instance
• ODINAFRICA for Africa (running)
• ODINCARSA for the Carribean and South America
  (needs more funding)
• ODINCINDIO for the Indian Ocean?
• Training tools OceanTeacher !

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE regional ODIN networks

• The ODIN strategy includes the following
  components
• Linking of training ?? equipment ?? operational
  support
• Stimulating regional co-operation
• Orientation towards concrete products and
  services
• Taking into account the many stakeholders

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UNESCO gt IOC gt IODE gt ODINAFRICA

• For instance
• ODINAFRICA The Ocean Data and Information
  Network for Africa
• http//ioc.unesco.org/odinafrica/

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE-project ODINAFRICA

• Started in 2001 with 20 States in Africa.

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE-ODINAFRICA aims

• Aims include the following
• to improve access to data and information
  available in African marine science centers
• to develop skills for the creation, dissemination
  and analysis of data and information products
• to stimulate the transition towards digital
  information systems on the Internet like
  catalogues interlibrary lending
  communication by e-mail usage of
  Internet-based information sources document
  repositories

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE-ODINAFRICA achievements

• National Oceanographic Data Centers established
• Improved Internet connectivity
• Data atlases, meta-databases, national ocean
  awareness activities, stakeholder meetings,
  national coordination teams, training courses

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE-ODINAFRICA achievements

• Improved marine information management
• libraries established
• one computer program for integrated library
  management provided and installed in most centers
• training courses for information managers
• national catalogues created
• merging in a union catalogue that is searchable
  through the WWW
• start-up of 1 common ODINAFRICA
  document-repository

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Evolution and aims of OceanTeacher
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OceanTeacher situated in UNESCO-IOC-IODE
UNESCO
UNESCO-IOC
UNESCO-IOC-IODE
UNESCO-IOC-IODE capacity building
UNESCO-IOC-IODE OceanTeacher
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UNESCO-IOC-IODE project OceanTeacher

• OceanTeacher provides training tools for data
  and information exchange in general and in
  particular for applications in ocean science.
• These tools are used during IODE training
  courses, but they can also be used for self
  training and continuous professional development.
• http//ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/
• The WWW site is accessible free of charge.
• The site can also be obtained on 1 DVD disk

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE the evolution towards
OceanTeacher

• 1960-1997 no standard curriculum
• 1997 start of the development of HTML-based
  training curriculum on CD
• 1998 start of the IODE ResourceKit
• 2001 ResourceKit training modules
  OceanTeacher
• continued

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE the evolution towards
OceanTeacher

• 2003 refinement of the outline taxonomy
  classification of the study materials
• continued

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE the evolution towards
OceanTeacher

• 2004 bringing together in common modules the
  documents on topics that are relevant for data as
  well as information management, such as ICT and
  metadatarenaming to OceanTeacher Digital
  Library Courses

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE project OceanTeacher

• This can be considered primarily as an open
  access digital library developed in an
  international co-operation.
• This offers
• documents
• hyperlinks to documents on the WWW
• computer programs
• references to related products (such as the FAO
  cd-rom)

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Structure and contents of OceanTeacher
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OceanTeacher digital library
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OceanTeacher digital library

• The digital library can be browsed.
• To facilitate editing and browsing, a taxonomy is
  developed and applied.
• The contents can be searched using an external
  search system (for instance Google).

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OceanTeacher digital library and courses

• Besides the digital library, various courses
  guide users and trainees through the digital
  library, in a way that corresponds to the aims
  and audience of a particular training course.

OceanTeacher
Digital library
Courses
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OceanTeacher courses

• The creation and application of a Course works
• WELL in the case of 1 trainer who can directly
  contribute online to the OceanTeacher WWW site
• but NOT WELL in the case of several trainers who
  cannot directly contribute online to the
  OceanTeacher WWW site

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The size of OceanTeacher
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OceanTeacher size

• OceanTeacher is perhaps the largest stand-alone,
  single-topic teaching system on the WWW.
• It incorporates the following
• 1.5 GBytes
• More than 6000 individual files
• About 3600 illustrations
• More than 14 000 internal cross-links that
  integrate the entire system
• More than 13 000 links to external resources
• Many oceanographic textbooks

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Challenges and bottlenecks related to OceanTeacher
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OceanTeacherchallenges and bottlenecks

• Permission must be obtained to include some
  materials in OceanTeacher, even when they are
  available/accessible free of charge
• continued

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OceanTeacherchallenges and bottlenecks

• Only few study materials
• are available free of charge
• offer high quality contents
• are up to date and will be updated later when
  needed
• continued

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OceanTeacherchallenges and bottlenecks

• Keeping copies of documents and programs up to
  date in the OceanTeacher system, when the
  original master version contents is updated
  elsewhere
• International co-operation requires some
  face-to-face contacts, which is expensive
• continued

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OceanTeacherchallenges and bottlenecks

• Funds are limited (of course)
• Differences in language among the users hinder
  communication, training and learning (English,
  French, Spanish, Portuguese)

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Plans for further development of OceanTeacher
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Further development of OceanTeacher

• Development goes on in the ODIMEX project from
  2004 to 2007.
• This work is supported by the Government of
  Flanders, Belgium.

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Further development of OceanTeacher

• Enlarge and improve the open access digital
  library of study materials on data and
  information management
• In parallelEvaluate, refine and improve the
  taxonomy / structure of the digital library

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Further development of OceanTeacher

• Expand the topics covered, with
• Remote Sensing
• Marine biological data management
• Operational oceanography data management
• Circulation modelling

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Further development of OceanTeacher

• Expand target audience focus also on scientists
  in related areas, not only data and information
  managers.
• Derive from OceanTeacher a more or less standard
  proposed university curricula, for various study
  programs.
• Focus not only on starting data and information
  centers in developing countries, but also on
  continuous professional development.

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Further development of OceanTeacher

• Extend OceanTeacher from a static web site to a
  web site that is managed by a contents management
  system, which is of course based on a database
  management system and
• which provides an electronic learning environment
• which can not only be browsed, but also searched
  by an internal search system

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UNESCO-IOC-IODE OceanTeacher www site
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Assessment / evaluation of OceanTeacher
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Assessment / evaluation ofOceanTeacher

• Assessment of the product developed during a
  project or during a phase in a longer, ongoing
  project, is of course desirable.
• How to evaluate a product like OceanTeacher that
  is still evolving fast?
• Up to now, the system has already been an
  essential component of several training courses
  on marine data management and on marine
  information management.

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Invitation to contribute
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UNESCO-IOC-IODE invitation of authors

• You are invited to contribute documents to the
  OceanTeacher digital library on information
  management for library and information staff.
• Why contribute?
• High visibility of the WWW site
• Prestigious, due to quality control by the
  editors and the international character
• Probably long term stability of the system, due
  to international support

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Questions and suggestions are welcome
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