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Chapter NineChapter Nine
VisionsVisionsFuture, past, and presentFuture, past, and present
How to Build a Digital LibraryHow to Build a Digital LibraryIan H. Witten and David BainbridgeIan H. Witten and David Bainbridge
Visions: Future, Past, and Visions: Future, Past, and PresentPresent
Digital libraries have practical Digital libraries have practical advantages over physical onesadvantages over physical ones
Digital libraries offer the promise of Digital libraries offer the promise of far greater universalityfar greater universality
Mission of a LibraryMission of a Library
The mission of a library is twofold:The mission of a library is twofold: To collect, organize, and provide access To collect, organize, and provide access
to informationto information To pass it down to succeeding To pass it down to succeeding
generations as a record of culturegenerations as a record of culture
The Librarian’s DutyThe Librarian’s Duty
The librarian has twin duties:The librarian has twin duties: AccessAccess
to the world’s literature for today’s to the world’s literature for today’s readersreaders
PreservationPreservationfor future generationsfor future generations
Challenges for Digital Challenges for Digital LibrariesLibraries
Today’s collections are mostly textToday’s collections are mostly text The real challenge is to create The real challenge is to create
collections of digital documents in collections of digital documents in diverse media typesdiverse media types
Examples:Examples: Music libraries that can be searched by Music libraries that can be searched by
humminghumming
Libraries of the Libraries of the futurefuture
Libraries of the FutureLibraries of the Future
Digital libraries Digital libraries Have the potential to be far more Have the potential to be far more
flexible than conventional onesflexible than conventional ones Will be largeWill be large Will not be staticWill not be static
Today’s VisionsToday’s Visions
Impersonal and utilitarianImpersonal and utilitarian Example: Figure 9.2Example: Figure 9.2
Real people in real environmentReal people in real environment Example: Figure 9.3Example: Figure 9.3 Kataayi cooperative in UgandaKataayi cooperative in Uganda Low techLow tech
Today’s VisionsToday’s Visions
Libraries are about connecting Libraries are about connecting people with the information they people with the information they needneed
Tomorrow’s VisionsTomorrow’s Visions
Sci-fi imageSci-fi image emphasis of preservation over accessemphasis of preservation over access
Personalized spacePersonalized space A kitchen for knowledge preparationA kitchen for knowledge preparation
WorkshopWorkshop Comfortable, personalized, dynamic, up Comfortable, personalized, dynamic, up
to dateto date Your Visions?Your Visions?
LibrarianshipLibrarianship
Librarianship:Librarianship: Selection, organization, and Selection, organization, and
maintenancemaintenance Wisdom and value judgmentsWisdom and value judgments
What information to includeWhat information to include How to organize the informationHow to organize the information
Working Inside the Digital Working Inside the Digital LibraryLibrary
Digital LibraryDigital Library A library without walls but with A library without walls but with
boundariesboundaries
Working inside the digital library:Working inside the digital library: An environment that surrounds in an An environment that surrounds in an
intellectual senseintellectual sense More or less immersiveMore or less immersive Reacts and respondsReacts and responds
Preserving the Preserving the pastpast
The Problem of The Problem of PreservationPreservation
Technological progress comes at the Technological progress comes at the expense of preservationexpense of preservation
The Problem of The Problem of PreservationPreservation
PaperPaper Acid-based paper decomposes after only Acid-based paper decomposes after only
a few decadesa few decades FilmFilm
Film containing nitrate decays quicklyFilm containing nitrate decays quickly Analog audioAnalog audio
Wax cylinders or magnetic tapes must Wax cylinders or magnetic tapes must be preserved by transferring onto be preserved by transferring onto digital formatsdigital formats
The Problem of The Problem of PreservationPreservation
A process of regular copying can be A process of regular copying can be established to preserve digital established to preserve digital material without lossmaterial without loss
The Digital Dark AgesThe Digital Dark Ages
““No one understands how to archive No one understands how to archive digital documents”digital documents”
Preservation TechnologyPreservation Technology
Enormous amounts of digital Enormous amounts of digital information are already lost foreverinformation are already lost forever
Information technologies become Information technologies become obsolete very quicklyobsolete very quickly
Document and media formats Document and media formats continue to proliferatecontinue to proliferate
Technology standards will not solve Technology standards will not solve fundamental issues in the fundamental issues in the preservation of digital informationpreservation of digital information
Availability of MaterialAvailability of Material Libraries will shortly see a demographic bulge Libraries will shortly see a demographic bulge
of electronic material as the baby boom of electronic material as the baby boom generation of authors and academics generation of authors and academics contribute material gathered during their contribute material gathered during their careerscareers
Much material will never make it into library Much material will never make it into library collections for preservation because of collections for preservation because of increasingly restrictive intellectual property increasingly restrictive intellectual property and licensing regimesand licensing regimes
Archiving and preservation functions in a Archiving and preservation functions in a digital environment will increasingly become digital environment will increasingly become privatized as information continues to be privatized as information continues to be commodifiedcommodified
Traditional Library Traditional Library FunctionsFunctions
Financial resources available to Financial resources available to libraries and archives continue to libraries and archives continue to decreasedecrease
Libraries and archives will be Libraries and archives will be required to continue their existing required to continue their existing archival and preservation practices archival and preservation practices as the current paper publishing as the current paper publishing boom continuesboom continues
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Digital documents are vulnerable to Digital documents are vulnerable to loss because the media on which loss because the media on which they are stored decays and becomes they are stored decays and becomes obsoleteobsolete
They become inaccessible when the They become inaccessible when the software or hardware becomes software or hardware becomes obsoleteobsolete
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Digital formats have advantages Digital formats have advantages over analog formatsover analog formats
Digital formats seem to promote Digital formats seem to promote preservationpreservation
The advantages make digital The advantages make digital preservation even harderpreservation even harder
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Ease of creation causes information Ease of creation causes information glutglut
Easy of copying makes “copies” Easy of copying makes “copies” seem dispensableseem dispensable
Improvements in hardware and Improvements in hardware and software promote obsolescencesoftware promote obsolescence
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
““May all your problems be technical May all your problems be technical ones”ones” Computer people recognize that the Computer people recognize that the
technical problems can be solvedtechnical problems can be solved It’s the human part that causes problemsIt’s the human part that causes problems
Administrative and political processes Administrative and political processes take time and cause frustrationtake time and cause frustration
Technical problems have solutions Technical problems have solutions which yield to honest intellectual workwhich yield to honest intellectual work
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Preservation is not a technical Preservation is not a technical problemproblem
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Four Preservation StrategiesFour Preservation Strategies PaperPaper MuseumsMuseums EmulationEmulation MigrationMigration
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Paper and MuseumsPaper and Museums Involves printing the material on paper or Involves printing the material on paper or
microfilm and storing in museumsmicrofilm and storing in museums Not considered a long-term preservation Not considered a long-term preservation
strategystrategy Emulation and MigrationEmulation and Migration
Involves preserving the physical stream Involves preserving the physical stream of bits and/or the logical means by which of bits and/or the logical means by which the bits are interpreted as a documentthe bits are interpreted as a document
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
EmulationEmulation Keeping the documents in exactly the Keeping the documents in exactly the
same formsame form Emulate the functionality of the Emulate the functionality of the
original, obsolete system on future, original, obsolete system on future, unknown systemsunknown systems
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Preserving the physical bit streamPreserving the physical bit stream Regular copying to new mediaRegular copying to new media Error detection to determine if Error detection to determine if
degradation is occurringdegradation is occurring Error correcting codes to ensure new Error correcting codes to ensure new
generations are faithful copies of the generations are faithful copies of the originaloriginal
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Preserving the logical interpretationPreserving the logical interpretation Emulate old interpreters on new Emulate old interpreters on new
hardwarehardware Backward compatibilityBackward compatibility
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
An important feature of any format used An important feature of any format used for preserving documents it that it is for preserving documents it that it is open: the details are made publicly open: the details are made publicly availableavailable
It must be open in principle as well as It must be open in principle as well as practicepractice Documented well enough for others to Documented well enough for others to
understand and build their own understand and build their own interpretersinterpreters
Examples: PostScript and PDFExamples: PostScript and PDF
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
MigrationMigration Translating the document from the old Translating the document from the old
format to a format accepted by new format to a format accepted by new softwaresoftware Designed for near-obsolete softwareDesigned for near-obsolete software
Involves copying the physical bit stream Involves copying the physical bit stream to new mediato new media
Involves translation to a new logical Involves translation to a new logical formatformat
Preservation StrategiesPreservation Strategies
Emulation or Migration?Emulation or Migration? Migration may be cheaperMigration may be cheaper
No special emulation software needs No special emulation software needs writtenwritten
Conversion software is usually availableConversion software is usually available Conversion is a kind of translationConversion is a kind of translation
May lose features of the dataMay lose features of the data
Generalized Generalized documents: A documents: A
challenge for the challenge for the presentpresent
Generalized Documents: A Generalized Documents: A Challenge for the PresentChallenge for the Present
Text remains the principal means for Text remains the principal means for searching and browsing collections, searching and browsing collections, even when they contain documents even when they contain documents in other mediain other media
Multimedia documents can be Multimedia documents can be displayeddisplayed Linked to text documentsLinked to text documents Text may contain only captionsText may contain only captions Text is browsed and searchedText is browsed and searched
Digital Libraries of Digital Libraries of MusicMusic
Music information retrievalMusic information retrieval Motifs in music are analogous to key Motifs in music are analogous to key
phrases in textphrases in text OMROMR
Optical music recognitionOptical music recognition Music analog of OCRMusic analog of OCR
Other MediaOther Media
ImagesImages VideosVideos ObjectsObjects Other Document TypesOther Document Types
ImagesImages
ThumbnailsThumbnails Visual material can be rapidly browsed Visual material can be rapidly browsed
using thumbnailsusing thumbnails Captures the readers attentionCaptures the readers attention Gives a feeling for what the collection is Gives a feeling for what the collection is
aboutabout Difficult to automatically search images Difficult to automatically search images
rather than manually browse themrather than manually browse them
VideosVideos
VideoVideo a sequence of pictures?a sequence of pictures?
Cut detectionCut detection Locating techniques where the scene Locating techniques where the scene
changeschanges MoviesMovies
Browsed and manipulated using thumbnailsBrowsed and manipulated using thumbnails Each thumbnail represents a typical image Each thumbnail represents a typical image
or the initial image in a sceneor the initial image in a scene
ObjectsObjects
RealiaRealia Real artifactsReal artifacts Computer graphics allow three-dimensional Computer graphics allow three-dimensional
objects to be captured in the form of a data objects to be captured in the form of a data setset
ArtifactsArtifacts In libraries and museums, artifacts are In libraries and museums, artifacts are
indexed and located on the basis of indexed and located on the basis of metadatametadata
BooksBooks Can be modeled as physical objectsCan be modeled as physical objects
Other Document TypesOther Document Types
Teaching materialTeaching material Multimedia elementsMultimedia elements
Research materialResearch material Laboratory notebooksLaboratory notebooks
Scientific and engineering dataScientific and engineering data Results of experiments, simulations, Results of experiments, simulations,
and surveysand surveys Information is expressed in many formsInformation is expressed in many forms
Generalized Documents in Generalized Documents in GreenstoneGreenstone
Digital LibraryDigital Library Focused collection of digital objects, Focused collection of digital objects,
including text, video, and audioincluding text, video, and audio The ChallengeThe Challenge
Integrate objects of all kinds of media Integrate objects of all kinds of media into digital libraries in such a way that into digital libraries in such a way that each becomes a first-class citizeneach becomes a first-class citizen
Generalized Documents in Generalized Documents in GreenstoneGreenstone
Greenstone does not incorporate Greenstone does not incorporate searching and browsing techniques searching and browsing techniques for non-textual mediafor non-textual media
Generalized Documents in Generalized Documents in GreenstoneGreenstone
Solutions to current Greenstone limitations:Solutions to current Greenstone limitations: New modules can be addedNew modules can be added New search engine can be deployed by New search engine can be deployed by
replacing or augmenting the MG system that replacing or augmenting the MG system that does text searchingdoes text searching
Browsing horizontal and vertical lists can be Browsing horizontal and vertical lists can be handled by adding a new classifierhandled by adding a new classifier
New browsers can be added through Perl codeNew browsers can be added through Perl code New media types can be imported by adding New media types can be imported by adding
new plug-insnew plug-ins
Digital Libraries for Oral Digital Libraries for Oral CulturesCultures
Libraries are about literatureLibraries are about literature Literature:Literature:
The writings of a society, in prose or The writings of a society, in prose or verseverse
Broadly speaking, literature includes all Broadly speaking, literature includes all types of fiction and nonfiction writing types of fiction and nonfiction writing intended for publicationintended for publication
Digital Libraries for Oral Digital Libraries for Oral CulturesCultures
It should be possible to create digital It should be possible to create digital library collections intended for library collections intended for people in oral culturespeople in oral cultures
Useful for people who may be Useful for people who may be illiterate or semi-literateilliterate or semi-literate
Useful for people who cannot speak Useful for people who cannot speak or read the language of the digital or read the language of the digital librarylibrary
Digital Libraries for Oral Digital Libraries for Oral CulturesCultures
Iconic FormIconic Form Serious practical information can be Serious practical information can be
conveyed in a purely iconic formconveyed in a purely iconic form ExamplesExamples
How to splint a broken forearmHow to splint a broken forearm User manual for underground transport User manual for underground transport
systemsystem Historical precedent of Beggar’s BiblesHistorical precedent of Beggar’s Bibles
Digital Libraries for Oral Digital Libraries for Oral CulturesCultures
Libraries for the illiterateLibraries for the illiterate We are all illiterate with respect to We are all illiterate with respect to
some other languages and culturessome other languages and cultures Media types:Media types:
Static imagesStatic images Motion, sound, video, interaction, 3D Motion, sound, video, interaction, 3D
objects, simulations, virtual realityobjects, simulations, virtual reality