Digital Libraries

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Digital Libraries

• . . . Kansas style
• prepared by Karen Cole, KSU

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Overview

• What is a digital library?
• Kansas Digital Library
• KSU digital library

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Digital Library - what is it?

• Selected and managed digital collections
• Schema for organizing and access of digital
  objects
• Supporting infrastructure and architecture

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Digital Library - what is it?

• Systems, Not Just Projects
• Archetypes not prototypes
• Closely tied to academic mission and built in
  collaboration with scholarship
• Sustainable
• A commitment of resources on a scale consistent
  with the mission

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Digital Library - what is it?

• Content
• Access Architecture
• Standards
• People

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Digital Libraries

• are more than simply network- accessible
  collections of information, hyperlinks and
  silos
• rather they attempt to bring together disparate
  electronic resources

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Kansas Digital Library

• Concept created by CODDL (Council of Deans and
  Directors of Libraries)
• Focus on created content
• Collaboration Kansas State Library, State
  Historical Society, State Department of
  Education, KLNB, Regents Libraries

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Kansas Digital Library

• A working mission statement
• ... Create a comprehensive, electronic library of
  visual, textual and auditory information
  resources for a world-wide audience focusing on
  resources that are either uniquely Kansan or
  unique to Kansas. The Kansas Digital Library will
  provide a framework for faculty and students to
  develop, build, organize, and apply their
  expertise and talents to create scholarly content.

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Characteristics of the KDL

• collaborative development among information
  partners across the State
• easy access and navigation using standard tools
• a wide diversity of content and format
• a high band width and reliable technological
  infrastructure
• adherence to national and international standards

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KDL- prototype

• http//www.kansasdigital.org

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Kansas Digital Library

• Collections
• Historial Maps - WSU
• Abbie Bright diary - Kansas Historical Society
• Kansas Wildflowers - KSU
• Curriculum guides - KSDE
• Beech Collection - WSU
• Popular Entertainment - KU
• KLNB grant recipient - May 2000

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Kansas Digital Library -
the future

• KDL Executive Committee
• White paper
• Budget
• Support of COCOA
• Support of Board of Regents

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KSU digital library

• Complement the KDL
• Acquired and created content
• Utilize existing/supported software

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KSU digital library

• A working definition
• . . .KSU digital library is proposed as a
  knowledge discovery facility. It is a framework
  for organizing, accessing and delivering
  knowledge resources to a widely (liberally)
  defined KSU academic community.

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KSU digital library

• . . . is not
• A replacement of existing web interfaces to
  campus resources
• A replacement to the proposed State of Kansas
  Digital Libraries project
• A "one-size-fits-all" approach to KSU information
  seeking
• Owned and operated by any single KSU division,
  such as KSU Libraries. Instead, it will be a
  cooperative venture of several campus entities

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KSU digital library

• Components
• Architecture - content structure
• acquired resources
• developed resources
• created resources
• goodness of fit to KSU research instruction
• use of appropriate metadata
• application which extends use of resources

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KSU digital library

• Components
• Engineering
• commonly used browsers
• software tools commonly available rather than
  home-grown or proprietary software
• search engines allowing for simultaneous
  searching on disparate types of digital items
• methods of selecting appropriate alternative
  routes to information

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KSU digital library

• Components
• People (users, developers, providers,
  instructors)
• user identification
• user defined profiles
• expertise availability, i.e. technical, legal,
  discipline/content, instructional
• collaborative development

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KSU digital library

• Continuous revision response to issues
• Instruction
• Standardization
• Preservation - issues of persistent access over
  time
• Scholarly inputs and outputs
• Quality Control
• Query optimization

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KSU digital library

• Initial development - FY2001
• Utilization of ILS - Endeavor
• base product
• Citation server
• Image server
• Collaboration/partnership with CNS, ISO, KSUL,
  COA
• Revamp web site - presentation

• Initial target digital resources
• Collegian
• Historical Agricultural Research
• ISSA collections
• Wildflower
• Monitor KDL development

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Digital Libraries

• . . . Kansas style are
• Just emerging
• In development
• Being defined

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Special Thanks

• Beth Warner Marilu Goodyear, KU
• Jim Bingham, KU Medical Center
• KDL participants
• KSU Digital Development Committee
• David Allen
• Mike Haddock
• Martin Heger
• David Hillier
• Angela Jones
• Jeff Pihl
• Judy Riniker
• Donna Schenck-Hamlin

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