Debbie Campbell Director, Coordination Support Branch National Library of Australia Engaging national information infrastructure with learning environments

Debbie CampbellDirector, Coordination Support Branch

National Library of Australia

Engaging national information infrastructure with learning

environments

4th International JISC-CNI Conference

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Five challenges for libraries to address: “critical mass aggregation local collection development integration archives”

Five areas to take action in (UKOLN): “distributed discovery location and request development of metadata coordination of national resource discovery integrated access to resources across domains organisation of distributed library resources”

using the past to find the future


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by building on thestrengths of existingsystems

by providingintegrated access to print and electronicsources ofinformation through existing systems

by providing easyto use accesspathways for the end-user

print is not forgotten


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in the national learning environment: the Australian Academic Research Library

Network (AARLIN),

the Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services (COLIS) Consortium,

a new resource discovery service,

and in associated projects: the Western Australian Libraries Authentication

Project (WALAP),

the Schools Online Content Curriculum Initiative (SOCCI)

Australian library engagement


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talking the same talk


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Early findings from the pilot phase:

Z39.50, distributed searching

130 commercial databases chosen, 40 implemented

UNIX skills required by university staff, collaboration facilitated this

Reactions from academics:

not interested in Web sites selected by libraries or described in catalogues

keen on multi-database searches, e-journals

assumed could access resources not held/subscribed to by the university

walking the same walk


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beware the ‘portal’ label

"I think we're more interested in not going it alone."

“The results were not blazingly fast, a fact that annoyed some students”

“.. plans to become more involved in academic collaborations such as the university-sponsored Open Knowledge Initiative..”


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more infrastructural initiative

LIBRARIES

ICT BANDWIDTH

TECHNICAL STANDARDS

Australian Academy of the Humanities

Australian Research Council CSIRO

Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee

Council of Australian University IT Directors

Council of Australian University Librarians

Department of Education, Science and Training

National Library of Australia IMS Australia


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dancing to the same tune

“identify and map interoperability issues for learning space applications

identify appropriate standards for interoperability

provide input to IMS and other standards bodies to fill interoperability gaps

provide input into the OKI framework”


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Directories

VocabularyCompetencyMetadata

Repositories

Organizations Traders

Acc

ess

Man

agem

ent

MA

NA

GE

RIG

HT

S O

BL

IGA

TIO

NS

CO

NT

RO

L A

CC

ESS

AU

TH

EN

TIC

AT

E

AU

TH

OR

ISE

AU

DIT

Pro

curem

ent

NE

GO

TIA

TE

TR

AD

EM

AK

E P

AY

ME

NT

SEARCH

Learner Creator Infoseeker

Repositories

AssetsMetadata

Resource Utilizers

DISCOVER

REQUEST

USEPresentation

Mediation

Provision

People

AgentR

ESO

LV

E

Registries

STORE

STORE EXPOSEMANAGE STORE EXPOSEMANAGE

DELIVER

(Query, Browse, Follow Path)ACCESS

GATHER

PUBLISH

MANAGE

ALERT

EXPOSE


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disclosing resources

in the proposed pilot:

EdNA Online South Seas project

Australian Digital Theses Program

Australian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL)

Australian National University’s e-print archive

Australian Museums Online (AMOL)

the U.K.’s Resource Discovery Network

(Australian resources only)

the National Bibliographic Database

PANDORA, maps, manuscripts

Australian Journals Online (with newspapers)

online exhibitions


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shining a light

the pilot resource discovery service is:

making free, significant resources more visible in the public domain

enhancing awareness and use of the intellectual output of a nation by disclosing it to a broad community, to facilitate learning, teaching and research

engendering an interest in underutilised resources

flagging resources ‘at risk’

identifying and supporting service providers of the future


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Carl Lagoze, April 2002


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a new resource discovery service

An Information Architecture

Presentation Layer

•present

•discover

•locate

•use

Broker Layer

•license

•centralise

Broker Layer

•federate

•link

•query

Middleware

•manage digital rights

•B2C

Middleware

•authenticate

•resolve

Content layers

•IMS repository

•AARLIN

Content layers

•digital Australiana

•Google

•select •select

learning objects

CO

LIS

RD

S

assets metadata

objects


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is it all about libraries ? “libraries often do not present a clear vision to those responsible for library funding

the public does not see the library as part of the service they receive, but those responsible for funding need to be aware of the library’s role

libraries need to find a way to be more closely aligned with political and economic agendas

it is difficult for government agencies to get approval for plans which do not show a tangible economic benefit

it is essential that the library sector present a single voice to get funding for significant infrastructure development

there is value in trying to move the focus from strictly economic issues, although social and cultural value is not necessarily measurable in dollar terms”


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are we there yet ?

“incremental change is no longer enough..

transformational change is needed to secure sustainability..”


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Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Librarywww.anu.edu.au/caul/mirror/global/content/

MODELS Overviewwww.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/overview.html

National Library of Australia Electronic InformationResources Strategies and Action Plan 2001-2002www.nla.gov.au/policy/electronic/resourcesplan.html

Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Benchmarking Study

www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/nrswg/benchmarking.html

Systemic Infrastructure Initiative www.dest.gov.au/highered/research/sys_report2001.htm

Resources used in this presentation


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AARLIN, Australian Academic Research LibraryNetwork, www.latrobe.edu.au/arlin/

COLIS, Collaborative Online Learning and InformationServices, www.colis.mq.edu.au/

National Library resource discovery service www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/resdisc.html

WALAP, Western Australian Libraries AuthenticationProjectwww.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/40Green.pdf

U. of Michigan Cancels a Closely Watched PortalProject //chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041101t.htm



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ARL Scholars Portal Working Group Final Report, 21 May 02

www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/final.html

SOCCI, Schools Online Content Curriculum InitiativeSocci.edna.edu.au

Digital Rights Management in the Higher Education Sector www.dest.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip02_2/eip02_2.pdf

MIT Open CourseWareweb.mit.edu/ocw/

Customised Learning Experiences Onlinewww.lsal.cmu.edu/lsal/expertise/projects/cleo/



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Libraries and E-Learning: Organisational and TechnicalInteroperability www.colis.mq.edu.au/news_archives/lib_e_learning.pdf

South Seas Projectwww.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/southseas/

Museums and the Web 2002: OAI Introduction, History, Overview, Carl Lagoze, April 2002 www.cimi.org/wg/oai/MW_2002_OAI_Lagoze.ppt

Now That We’ve Found the ‘Hidden Web’, What Can We

Do With It ?www.archimuse.com/mw2002/papers/cole/cole.html

The ASSIST Graphical User Interface asc.harvard.edu/udocs/news_01/articles/eric.html



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The Intellectual Foundation of Information OrganisationElaine Svenonius, 2000, Massachusetts Institute of

TechnologyISBN 0-262-19433-3

Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good DigitalCollections /firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/cole/

JISC Information Environment Architecturewww.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/dner/arch/

Peak Bodies Forum, 15 February 2002www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/peakbod/

min150202.html

Australian Library and Information Associaton conference 2002

www.alia.org.au/conferences/alia2002/papers.html



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Debbie Campbell Director, Coordination Support Branch National Library of Australia Engaging national information infrastructure with learning environments