Developing for the Future

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Developing for the Future

• Seminar on Legal Deposit of Official Publications
• Presented by Wendy Moulang
• 27 May 2008
• e-Mail wmoulang_at_juta.co.za

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Industry Challenges

• Access to information
• The way its authored and published
• The way its accessed
• Technological changes
• Digital item is read using software platform
• Software platform requires operating system
• Operating systems require hardware infrastructure
• Microsofts acquisition of FAST Search and
  Transfer
• Supplier of Jutas current publishing platforms
  NXT and Folio VIEWS
• Information formats
• Must satisfy a number of needs
• Some standards and formal processes are required

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Same Information Many Sources

• Juta provides free access selected Journals via
  University Websites
• We also make selected legislation available to
  Government departments for free public access
• SAFLII provides free access to legal resources,
  so too does the Constitutional Court and others
• Juta previously sole publisher of SA Law Reports
  from 1947
• Mid Feb-2008 18-mil pages of public domain
  federal case law released in the US

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Market Changes

• Shift from fixed media such as CD-ROM to Online
• Subscription migration
• Internet usage in South Africa up gt120 in last 2
  years 1
• Ownership vs Access
• Shift to access?
• Portability, mobility and accessibility
• Becoming more important in some sectors
• Technology natives or immigrants?

1 Research by Nielsen//Netratings published on
www.matthewbuckland.com
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Dynamic User Experience Moving from content to
context

• Publishing focus Content or Context?
• Lines between Knowledge Management, Document
  Management and Information Management are
  becoming increasingly blurred
• Static vs Dynamic datasets
• Federated search capabilities
• Standardised vocabulary and the building of
  taxonomies

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Data Formats Now and in the future

• Content structures
• Reduce total cost of information
• Constant reworking of information rerquired
• Definition of standards
• Existing formats are varied
• Makes data transfer of data difficult
• Generic guidelines
• Anonymity and de-sensitisation
• Citation methodologies
• Future changes in formats
• Possible neutrality of format?
• Careful monitoring of future changes required

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Strategic partnerships and working relationships

• Licensing of content
• Aggregators such as Sabinet, Hein Online and
  Justis Publishing
• Other information vendors
• Development partners
• Local and international development houses and
  software vendors
• Local and international data manipulation
  services
• Upstream relationships
• Content originators such as government and
  authors

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Conclusion

• Thank you for your interest
• Any questions or comments can be forwarded to
• wmoulang_at_juta.co.za
• Tel [phone]