LAMA Institute

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LAMA Institute

• Lorcan Dempsey
• 14-16 November 2002

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Becoming digital
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Becoming digital

• The data map what sorts of resources are we
  supporting
• The 'recombinant' library modular library
  services for more flexibility
• Emerging emphases
• Portal
• Digital collections
• Engagement with research and learning

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Becoming digital

• A shared network space
• Resources and users
• Organization, services and users

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Grid .. resources and users
stewardship
high
low
low
uniqueness
high
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Books and journals and

• Rich apparatus for discovery, acquisition,
  management is under pressure
• Multiple electronic resources
• Catalogs
• AI databases
• Journals
• For the library
• A headache
• Improve service
• Realize value of investment
• Squeeze cost out of processing
• Automate supply chain
• Manage rights/licenses

• For the user
• Ranganathan!
• What is available?
• Enhance research and learning experience

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Special collections

• Make rich cultural resources available in new
  ways
• For the library
• Resourcing
• A major learning experience
• No routine
• Selection
• Presentation
• Fragmented

• For the user
• What is useful for research, learning, personal
  fulfilment?
• Can materials be re-used

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Research and learning

• Supporting the creation, management, use and
  disclosure of institutional learning and research
  resources
• Learning
• Courseware
• E-reserves
• Reading lists
• Research
• E-prints
• Data
• Scholarly communication

• What is the library role?
• The diffuse library (Wendy Lougee)

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Freely available web resources

• If it is not on the web, does it exist?
• For the library
• What is the role?
• Major redundant effort links
• Align with other resources

• For the user
• The google experience
• The library promise

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Above and below the line

• Below the line
• Discovery?
• Shining a light on hidden resources
• Preservation?
• The long term costs of digital ownership
• The digital library

• Above the line
• Commodified?
• Streamlined

A unified experience
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The example of metadata
stewardship
high
low
Books Journals
Freely-accessible web resources
MARC, Onix
Dublin Core
low
uniqueness
MARC, METS, EAD, DC, TEI
Special collections
high
Research and learning materials
DC, DDI, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, SCORM
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Trends
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Organization, service and users

• Library services in a shared network space

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The recombinant library
user environments
library
resource environment
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Recombinant organization

• Existing
• Shared cataloguing
• Resource sharing
• Access to journal literature

• Emerging
• Tiered catalog access
• Archiving
• Collection mapping
• Collaborative collection assessment,
  consolidation, development
• Resolution streamlining access to the commodity
  literature
• Virtual reference
• Harvesting

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Issues

• The value of interoperability
• Interoperability is recombinant potential
• Add a database to a search
• Add a document to a repository
• Fuse metadata from one repository with another
• Switch provider of data or system or service
• Add new service channels

• The quest for organizational structures and new
  institutional arrangements
• The need to understand the experience of the user

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Where we are going
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Portal
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The recombinant library
user environments
library
resource environment
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Library portal
How the library mediates the engagement of users
and resources in a network environment

• All vogue words tend to share a similar fate
  the more experiences they pretend to make
  transparent, the more they themselves become
  opaque. Zygmunt Bauman

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Library portal - the problem

• End user needs to
• Know what is available
• Learn multiple interfaces
• Manually fuse results

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Library portal approach
Provide intermediate layers between user and
resources. Manage multiple collections.
Resources
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A portal grid!
Still
Dynamic
Mediation/Presentation (thick)
Presentation (thin)
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Institutionalrepository
Commercialresource
Communityrepository
Resource 2
Resource 4
Record fusion enrichment
Delivery
Request
Configuration
Harvesting data
Terminology services
V. Ref
Rightsmanagement
Distributed query
Resolution
Syndication
Identity management
Annotation
Notification
Presentation

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Mediation
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Query Harvest Request reference
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Presentation

• A portal will have its own user interface
• It may also appear as a channel in another
  presentation layer
• A portlet in a portal framework
• Web services
• SOAP,

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Some central technologies

• Z39.50
• SRU/SRW
• Open Archives Initiative
• OpenURL

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OAI-based mediation
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Data map again
Z39.50 and OpenURL
A mixed economy
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Library
- Champaign, IL - 499,440 2002 National
Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research
Demonstration In this three-year research
project, the Library of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will create a
collection-level registry of digital collections
created with IMLS funding from 1998 to 2005 and
will research, design and implement a prototype
item-level metadata repository service
based on the Open Archives Initiative Metadata
Harvesting Protocol.
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Portal functionality provided by ARL libraries
results of an ARL survey April 2002

• 77 ARL libraries respond
• 21 have a portal
• 10 are building one
• 42 in discussion about a portal
• 14 not considering one
• A portal defined as cross-searching plus one
  other supporting service

http//www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/prelim.ht
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Some aims

• Wrap a collection of resources in a web
  environment which
• Saves time for research, learning and personal
  fulfillment
• Surfaces potentially valuable resources which
  otherwise might be overlooked in the trees
• Allows users and library to focus on collections
  rather than mechanics of interaction
• Will increasingly need to interact with other
  environments
• Learning management, institutional portal
  frameworks,
• Library portal transitional

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The engagement with research and learning
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A whirlwind tour

• The institutional portal framework
• Folding information into the learning environment
• Curatorial attention to research and learning
  resources

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Dynamic presentation
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Interacting with enterprise

• Enterprise view
• Portal envy
• Portal wars
• Proliferation of portals
• YAP (yet another portal)
• No resource is single focus of a users attention
• Interaction with other institutional services
  (authentication)
• A channel in a wider framework

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Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket
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Library?
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learning
it is likely that a large part of the student
and teacher experience will be managed within a
systems framework which manages the learning
life-cycle and interfaces to multiple systems and
services.
Neil Mclean, pro-vice Chancellor e-learning and
information services, Macquarrie University
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Perhaps the core lesson for librarians from the
quiet revolution in teaching and learning in
academe is the awareness that most academic
libraries are not ends in themselves, but rather
a means to enhancing teaching and learning. From
this perspective, all future changes in library
goals and objectives, budget and staffing,
strategies and directions, must be in synch with
the university and driven by the values and
visions of the campus for teaching and learning.
.... To be successful in the future, however,
librarians must partner with academic departments
and classroom faculty in ever new and creative
ways as we plan and deliver these library
services to the University community.
Brad Baker, NE Illinois U
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Learning

• Some specifics
• Reading lists
• eReserves
• Exam papers
• Subscription resources
• Virtual reference
• YAP?
• Interaction between library systems and learning
  management systems

• Some general
• Which library resources are most relevant to
  teaching?
• Organizational frameworks for collaboration?
• Long term role curatorial role?
• Metadata and repositories

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components of CI-enabled science engineering
High-performance computing
for modeling, simulation, data
processing/mining
Humans
Instruments for
observation and
characterization.
Individual
Global Connectivity
Physical World
Group Interfaces
Visualization
Facilities for activation,
manipulation and
Collaboration
construction
Services
Knowledge management
institutions for collection building
and curation of data, information,
literature, digital objects
Atkins report
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Knowledge bank OSU in planning
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of
an OSU knowledge bank
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Institutional repository curating institutional
intellectual assets

• Reputation management
• Interesting interaction between
• Devolved scholarly authority to contribute to
  discipline
• Managed university approach to asset and
  reputation management
• Curatorial responsibility to the intellectual
  record
• Enrich the discourse of scholarly communication
• Surface rich resources
• New opportunities for access, analysis, re-use

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General repository issues

• Long term ownership costs unknown
• Mission critical liabilities
• Balance between scholarly needs and management
  needs
• Actuarial perspective
• Ingestible
• Secure the value of investment

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Research and learning

• Research and learning behavior is increasingly
  entering the network space
• Library resources need to be available at the
  appropriate stage within the learning or research
  environment
• Research and learning outputs require curatorial
  attention
• New forms of engagement and support.
• The impact of technology on libraries is no less
  important than the impact of technology on the
  behaviours of our users. What is very important
  is how we adapt to support those changes.