Collections AND Connections

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ltCollections AND Connectionsgt

• Innovative Ideas Forum

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Collections or Connections?

• The Arguments
• Content is not king
• Connect dont Collect
• Retail or Wholesale
• Centralised or Distributed
• EdNAs Response Connecting Collections

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EdNA Tag Cloud

• 1997 askedna australia browse collaboration
  communities dulwich early childhood edna.edu.au
  education events ICT information international
  knowledge metadata myedna networks news online
  quality resources schools search standards
  training universities value VET what when where
  who why?
• How

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• Working together building Australias knowledge
  networks

(2002- )
(2003- )
(1997- )
(2002- )
(2001- )
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Vital signs

• 18,500 metadata records in repository
• 156,807 visitors/month to www.edna.edu.au
• 40,000 search requests/month
• 900 lists with 42,000 members
• 160 e-newsletters to 18,358 recipients
• 900 AskEdNA email enquiries
• 80 face-to-face workshops to 1500 participants
• AGIMO, 2005 Demand Value Assessment

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Single sign on
lists.edna.edu.au
My Lists
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My Lists
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Single sign on
www.groups.edna.edu.au
EdNA feeds
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Roadmap v 1.5 - 2.1

• Themes
• RSS management
• Blogs
• Instant messaging
• MyMoodle personalisation
• Accessibility

Metadata Portfolio API Repository API Web
services API Database module LAMS
integration Hive integration
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Connecting communities

• Newsletters via email, website, RSS
• News via website, RSS, Javascriptother
  websites, mobile
• Events via website, ICAL, RSS, XML, HTML
  print

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Shared information services
xml, rss
customise
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Examples of Shared Services
Teaching Learning _at_ANU News uses EdNA Higher
Education News Headlineshttp//www.anu.edu.au/ced
am/teachingandlearning/ednanews.php Carrick
Institute Conferences and Workshops in
Australiauses EdNA Calendar http//www.carrickin
stitute.edu.au/carrick/go/pid/91 Global
Education Learning Questsuses EdNA search
stringshttp//www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/glo
baled/go/pid/2087 Curriculum Corporation Science
Lynxuses EdNA new school science curriculum
resourceshttp//www.curriculum.edu.au/science/new
s/news.htm eLearn (NZ) News uses EdNA Higher
Education news and new resources aggregated with
other news feeds from other sourceshttp//www.ele
arn.govt.nz/elearn/elearn.portal
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Users of EdNA Shared Information Services
EdNA www.edna.edu.au groups.edna.edu.au
Government Education Portal
EdNA Sibling Sites Global Ed, CTFS, ICT Leading
Practice, LCC, NSEP, ICT Policy, ICT Research,
OzProjects, etc
End users Via desktop RSS Feeds and RSS sites
e.g. bloglines,OLDaily
GLOBE Sites MERLOT, NIME ARIADNE
VET Sites Via LORN Project NSW CLI, TAFE VC, FL
Toolboxes, TAFE TasFlexible Learning
EdNA Shared Information Services Distributed
Search Browse News, Calendar Events, Recent Items
Standards OrganisationsIMS
Australian Schools Many via MyInternet Learning
EdgeCatholic Ed, Assoc Indep. Schools, NSWTLF
(via BELTS)
New Zealand Via NZ Education Federated Search
Service
Stakeholder Sites NSW DET (TALE), NT Edu Dept,
WA Ed, Tas Ed, DECS SA, DET Vic, Qld Ed.
International Higher Ed Sites rug.nl, usc.es,
sfu.ca, ncl.ac.uk, ucr.edu
Australian Higher Ed Sites uts.edu.au,
uaw.edu.au, usq.edu.au, usyd.edu.au,
unimelb.edu.au, deakin.edu.au
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Collections

• Collection policy
• Core business priority Resource discovery
• Collection models Cataloguing vs Harvesting
• Selection
• Description
• Maintenance
• EdNAs Response Distributed Search

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Connecting Collections
Approved collection
COLLECT?
N
CONNECT
Y
EdNA creates metadata?
Y
N
Metadata Harvest?
EdNA Collection
Index creator
N
Y
EdNA Search Index
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• What is it?
• How did we do it?
• Issues
• Future

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Traditional Search Model
Distributed Search Manager
Repositories
Web Portals/LMS
EdNA
EdNA Repository
EdNA Query Grammar
XML API / HTTP
Repository n
Portal n
Query Grammar n
Search / Transport Protocol n
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Distributed Search Model V1.0
Distributed Search Manager
EdNA Repository
Portal n /
Repository n
Distributed Search API
Repository Search APIS
Repository Search APIS
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Distributed Search Manager

• Distributes search request to multiple
  repositories in real time
• Java Servlet, Open Source. Fast, Simple,
  lightweight
• Pluggable Front end Query Interfaces
• Simple Keyword Search (HTTP Get/XML)
• SRW/U
• Pluggable Backend Repository Adapters
• Z39.50, SRU/W, SOAP, EdNA XML etc
• Supports mixed repository types
• Metadata, LO, Digital Library, Library catalogue
  etc
• Supports multiple search policy options
• manage tradeoff speed vs search depth/width
• E.g. Wait All, Wait 1st, Poll, Wait n secs

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DSM Palette
HTML
SOAP
Z39.50
Zing SRU/W
Client Spec XML
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Initial search WOW!
All results
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EdNA Advanced Search
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VET resources
VET LOs
VET thesaurus
Audience Tailored Search Page
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Advanced VET Search results
Sort options
Relevance
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DSM 2.0 Roadmap

• Repository-level metadata (with branding) and
  ability to categorise repositories.
• Extend to support federated searching via
  Shibboleth (MAMS)
• Released DSM 1.0 as open source (GNU License).
  Discuss with education.au if interested in OSS
  model

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Whats next?
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www.search.edna.edu.au

• Gus Singh, gsingh_at_educationau.edu.au
• Pru Mitchell, pmitchell_at_educationau.edu.au