Specifying Hybrid Library Requirements Agora Hybrid Library Project

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Specifying Hybrid Library RequirementsAgora
Hybrid Library Project

• funded by
• The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• David Palmer, University of East AngliaLibrary
  Associates Coordinator

Internet Librarian Libtech International 99 -
March 30, 1999
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Todays Presentation

• Agora Project Overview
• Specification Methodology
• Specification Contents
• The future

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Project Overview

• Agora
• a place where information users products meet
• Purposes
• to explore technical issues
• to move the community forward
• develop tools to aid implementation

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Project Overview

• January 1998 - December 2000
• Project methodology
• Consortia
• UEA, UKOLN, FDI, CERLIM
• Staged Build - Reflect - Define
• User-led
• Standards - based

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Project Overview

• Associates
• Libraries, Technical Providers, Service
  Providers
• Specification role
• functional technical framework
• exemplar of hybrid library concept
• developmental focus

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Specification methodology

• Baseline information
• Prototype evaluation
• Theoretical requirements
• Draft for comment
• Consultation evaluation
• CERLIM
• Associates / FDI

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Specification methodology

• Specification format
• Functional specification
• Functional technical synthesis
• Components
• High level description
• Requirements catalogue / tabulation
• User / admin framework diagrams
• Framework catalogue

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Specification Contents

• Integration of functions
• discovery
• searching
• locating
• request delivery
• Integration of sources
• multiple formats, domains locations

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Specification Contents

• Authentication / registration
• ATHENS . under investigation
• user profiles
• (un)authenticated use
• self / system registration

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Specification Contents

• Landscapes
• Resources available / chosen
• Self-defined / System-generated
• Retention of landscapes
• Collection description

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Specification Contents

• Searching
• Simultaneous searching of multiple sources
• Simple / advanced searching
• Retention of searches
• Need for standards / cooperation

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Specification Contents

• Results / Managing hits
• Common display format
• Configurable number / display
• Shopping basket functionality
• Sorting / deduplication

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Specification Contents

• Locating / Requesting
• Use of information from targets
• Two functions independant
• Location rota available
• Integrated requesting
• Unmediated option

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Specification Contents

• Administrative framework
• Administering people
• Group patron details
• Administering resources
• Service / collection descriptions
• Landscape search definitions
• Explain proxy / target admin.

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Specification Contents

• Administrative framework cont.
• Administering money
• Cost / payment management
• Administering linkages
• User permissions
• Inter-lending / document delivery
• Utilities

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The Future

• Agora Release 1 (Aug. 1999)
• installation and evaluation
• support material
• Reflect and Refine
• Agora Release 2 (Aug. 2000)
• Dissemination Expansion

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Further info

• Agora web pages lthttp//hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/agora
  /gt
• email
• Libraries
• david.palmer_at_uea.ac.uk
• Communication suppliers
• r.russell_at_ukoln.ac.uk
• Project Director
• greg_at_uea.ac.uk