Title: NELLI, The Finnish National Electronic Library Interface
1 NELLI, The Finnish National Electronic Library
Interface
- Ari Rouvari
- 9. - 11.6.2004
- ELAG 2004
- Trondheim
2TOPICS
- Visions and aims
- Implementing situation in Finland
- Consortia model
- Authentication / Authorization
- User interface fetishism
- The service core, The Triangle
- An example of the use of Triangle
3The Value Chain of Digital Library Services
Acquiring of digital resources FinELib
Digitisation of cultural heritage Mikkeli
Archiving of digital resources
User interface
4THE TRIANGLE CONSIST OF
- 1. The portal (Metalib/SFX)
- user interface / Authentication
- metasearch
- linking resolver access restriction
- 2. Library system (Voyager)
- description metadata
- 3. Document archive(Encompass)
- technical metadata
- repository
- Standard-base, standard interfaces
- openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc
Portal
Z39.50
ZING
library system
Document archive
OpenURL
5CUSTOMERS VISIONS
- CUSTOMERS Entire Finland
- 20 university libraries (2004)
- 30 polytechnics (2005)
- (450) public libraries (2005) 20 regional
libraries - research lib. (later)
- VISIONS AIMS
- Easy-to-use
- One-stop-shop
- Single sign on
- One search, all services
- Centralized maintaining management
- One server for the entire nation
- Local user interfaces
- tailoring
- Local services
- Collaborative development of services
Keep it simple stupid!
6USER INTERFACE FETISHISM
- Nelli-portal
- Local interfaces
- Regional interfaces
- National interfaces
- Library system
- OPACs
- Document archive
More is better?
Customer oriented way
7Nelli organization
- Nelli staff (Ari Henri)
- The Portal team (9)
- local project managers (20)
- local trainers (10)
- 14 000 ejournals
- 175 databases
- OPACs
The Triangle team
document archive
LS-team
Portal team
8Nelli-portal in consortia environment
- Centralized tasks
- co-ordinating the project
- implementing / maintaining
- updating SFX/Metalib
- SFX activiting instructions
- configuration (Metalib)
- descriptions of resources
- user interfaces (multi-languages)
- Development of services
- Local tasks
- Authentication
- Activating SFX-targets
- Copying of conf. Files
- Copying of descriptions
- Local tailoring
- Local services
- training
9Authentication authorization
- 1. LDAP
- 2. Remote authentication hook
- CGI-program
- Shibboleth
- esay-to-use
- Secure
- Standard base
- IP address ranges
- Shibboleth ?
10Shibboleth authentication
Home campus
Nelli-portal
2. Auth. starts
1. select home campus
Shibboleth origin site
Shibboleth target site proxy
3. Auth. OK
login password
4. Attribute request
remote authenticationCGI-hook
5. Response attr email address
LDAP directory
11Shibboleth authorization (vision)
target dbs
Metaserach
Nelli-portal
Home campus
Attribute Authority
Attribute query
SFX-target ejournal database
SFX Resolver
Handle service
Attribute resonse / pass on attributes
Authentication
12THE TRIANGLE CONSIST OF
- 1. The portal (Metalib/SFX)
- user interface / Authentication
- metasearch
- linking resolver access restriction
- 2. Library system (Voyager)
- description metadata
- 3. Document archive(Encompass)
- technical metadata
- repository
- Standard-base, standard interfaces
- openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc
Portal
Z39.50
ZING
library system
Document archive
OpenURL
13one scenario digital music collection (legal
deposit copies)
Nelli-portal
Search interface
OpenUrl
Z39.50
SFX-resolver
digital archive
access control
records
digital objects special metadata restrict
access by collections
Linnea-library system
Target database
OpenUrl
14THE RESOURCE MAP OF FINNISH ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
- Australian Libraries Gateway
- Scottish Collections Network, SCONE
Describe DCCD application Evaluate Conspectus
method
15CONCLUSION
- Creative innovative staff
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- Open Access
- Librarians should
- support free Information
Keep it simple stupid!
16Technical environment
- Sun Fire 4800 and Solaris-OS
- Software Apache, MySQL, Oracle
- Technical maintenance (patches in OS, all the
backups) by CSC, the Finnish IT center for
science - Connecting to the Funet Backbone Network
17Strenghts Weaknesses
- Applications/softwares
- ExLibris help desk
- Management tools
- SFX, its magic
- SFX KDB
- Exlibris attidute
- - multi-language
- - Consortia model
- - Usability/ Quick search
- - Ejournal tool
- - Metalib statistics