Digital library infrastructure -- systems

• Repositories for storing digital resources• protect, manage, deliver, and preserve digital

resources over time

• Discovery services for finding digital resources • catalogs, portals, full text search services, federated

search agents

• Access management to protect digital resources• authentication, profile information, “fewer sign-ons”

Digital library infrastructures -- services

• Digitizing – facilities, expertise, and on-demand services to convert

materials to digital formats• Object management

– store, protect, and serve digital resources• Preservation

– maintain availability and/or viability of digital objects over time as technology changes

• Metadata– create and maintain metadata required to describe,

render, manage, and preserve digital objects

Digital library infrastructures -- expertise

• Metadata– advise on formats and conventions for descriptive,

technical, and administrative metadata as used in various communities

• Digitization– advise on technical formats, good practices, conversion

hardware and software, and conversion workfows• Intellectual property

– advise on copyright and license issues related to digital information, both procured from outside and created within the university

Some areas of overlap with academic IT

• Institutional repositories– who is responsible for housing, providing access, and

preserving the digital assets created within the university?

• Learning management systems– relationship between “e-reserves” systems and LMS?– can LMS utilize digital objects stored in digital library

repositories?– Should course web sites be archived and preserved?

• Authentication, profiling, “single sign-on”– Pretty obvious….

Some areas of overlap with academic IT

• Supporting scholars and students in creating digital objects– who provides advice on appropriate formats, metadata,

conversion technologies and workflow? • Portals

– library resources should be configurable and delivered through the same mechanism as any other campus resource

• Large-scale storage systems– digital libraries generate LOTS of large objects, many

of which are archival rather than current service copies