Virtual Document eXchange

Robin MurrayManaging Director

Overview

Company Overview Standards Global Distributed Resource Access VDX in context Summary & Questions

Company Overview

Fretwell-Downing Informatics—Based in Sheffield, UK and Kansas City—FDI UK 56 People, USA 8 people—Turnover ~ $13M

Major Activities—Library Automation—Network Document Delivery / ILL—Collaborative R&D

Customers Include...

National Library of Australia (Amicus) National Library of New Zealand (Endeavor) British Library South East New York (Virtual Union

Catalog) University of Toronto (DRA) National Archives and Records

Administration LDS

Standards...

Z39.50 ISO ILL GEDI SIP / NCIP

But What For?

Distributed Resource Access & Delivery

Anything / Anywhere

Search

Locate

Request

Deliver

Consumer-to-Business Business-to-Business

Search

Virtual Union Catalog / Physical Union Catalog

Cross-Domain Scalable

—Users / Databases Quality of Service

—Speed—Error Tolerance—Sort / Dedup / Profile knowledge

Search Features

Scalability—Parallelised Architecture for massive scalability—Large PUC / VUC

—Error Tolerance, Fast response, Dedup, Sort

Cross Domain—MARC , CIMI, Dublin Core, GILS, Image

Databases Profile knowledge

—‘Search mangling’—Holdings aware

Locate

Finding potential suppliers Understanding consumer - business

relationship—Mediation requirements—Budgets / permissions

Understanding business - business relationships—Supply times / costs / quality of service—material types / service levels …—Consortial agreements

Locate Features

Active Policy Directory—User, library, consortia,

Automated Resource Finder—Z39.50 searching—Doing what humans do

Mediation—Automatic—Manual—Mixed

Request

Transparent requesting & management to any supplier—Library—Consortia—GLOBAL—Commercial Suppliers

Automatic forwarding

Request Features

ISO ILL Proprietary Request protocols

—Commercial suppliers Centralised Utility Automated forwarding / expiry

Deliver

Physical Delivery Scan-on-demand Electronic Delivery

Delivery Features Physical Delivery Management

—Workflow management, Pick lists—Circulation Integration

Scan-on-demand—Ariel Integration, Single or multiple—To Library or User

Electronic—Direct delivery

Common Management Framework

Management Features User Alerting Copyright Tracking Accounting Web based statistics ASP-ready ...

Scalability

Single Server—Single Institution

—e.g. University of Toronto, Macquarie University

—Consortia—e.g. SENYLRC, LASER

—Country—e.g. Australia, New Zealand

Transaction Store - Oracle RDBMS UI - WWW / Windows

Why?

Patron Initiated ILL

Global Mixed Media Resource Access

Distributed Hybrid Library

Australian ExampleLibrary

1

Library2

Library3

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NLA

Mac Univ

LibraryCatalogue

ElectronicJournals

Library1

Library2

Library 5

Library 4

CAVAL

NLNZ

Virtual Document eXchange

Robin MurrayManaging Director