State of Library Technology 2002 May 14, 2002 UCLA Digital Library Who - What - Where - Why Presenter: Curtis Fornadley, Senior Programmer/Analyst UCLA Library Qualitative versus Quantitative

Who Curtis Fornadley - Digital Library Architect and Technical Lead Howard Bachelor - Digital Library Coordinator (and related duties) Various Student workers - Creating digital content and Metadata. Terry Ryan, Stephen Schwartz – guidance, support, management, politics,budgeting, interface with other institutions etc. Hannah Walker – Taking on project leadership role for LIS sponsored Digital Libraries projects. Brad Read – Oracle database administrator David Leonian and company - Hardware issues and infrastructure support. Gloria Rom – any issues on Unix machines. Darrow Cole – advisor on image processing

What do we do? Infrastructure Projects - learning, design, implementation and maintenance of tools for the support of the Digital Library. Including Database, Application servers, data collection tools, Java, XML and Oracle technologies. Content Projects - Web based applications to search and present digital content and metadata. Project Type Do We have it TextYes ImageYes AudioNo, planned WQ 03 VideoNone planned

Content Projects in Production Archive of Popular American Music (aka the Sheet Music project) Last updated March Considered an active project. (S. Davison will discuss) Hoover (Thelner) Collection - A pictorial history of the UCLA Westwood campus. A completed Image project. May be expanded in the future if funding appears. Nutrition Bytes – A digital publication containing the best papers submitted by first-year medical students, on topics pertaining to diet and nutrition. Last updated April 2002 (Updated annually) The Drew Clinical Research Papers Archive. Document original projects conducted by Drew/UCLA medical students. Could be considered a pilot for the creation of a “Generic Working Papers Repository”.

Current Content Projects in Development IMMI – Index of Medieval Medical Images Migrated metadata from MARC records into UCLA Core. Create digital images from slides from various manuscripts. New technologies: Dynamic sizing of images through Oracle InterMedia Tools. Diverse group of players: Kathy Donahue, Sara Layne, Rob Stibravy, and… a Faculty member Inez O’Neill Demo:

Current Content Projects in Development Comitatus – A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. An annual publication of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies A “model” text project. Digitized versus Digital text. New Technologies: Use of XML and XSLT. Demo :

Current Content Projects in Development Architecture Urban Design (AUD). Digitized slide catalog teaching resource. Great potential for take off - Faculty and department interest. Could be considered a pilot for a “Campus Wide Image Repository”. Pilot demo June Campaign Literature Archive – Election materials distributed by political campaigns from 1920 to the present. Developed prototype. Work on a production version will resume in the Fall.

Other Areas of Work Development of project work flow (Sheet Music Project) Development/Refinement of UCLA Core database/data collection Work on developing Project Team building and project leaders - Sheet Music and IMMI. The Critical Path: The demand for new Digital Library projects exceeds the current staffing. ExComm involved in setting priorities.

New Projects for the Future (Next 6 months) Infrastructure - Upgrade Digital Library servers to new hardware Infrastructure - Upgrade databases to Oracle 9i (Unicode enabled) OAI Sheet Music Data Provider OAI Sheet Music Harvester (Design, Build and Test)

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI Version 2.0) The Goal of OAI: “to supply and promote an application-independent interoperability framework that can be used by a variety of communities who are engaged in publishing content on the Web.” The OAI protocol facilitates metadata harvesting Editors: Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze Cornell University - Computer Science

OAI Requests and Responses OAI Requests and Responses use HTTP - “just like the web”. But… All OAI Responses are valid XML Two Classes of Participants: Data Providers: expose metadata about the content in their systems. Service Providers (aka harvesters): Issue OAI requests to the systems of data providers, and use the returned metadata as a basis for building value-added services.

OAI Sheet Music Data and Service Providers

Why (In my opinion) The Practical “Why” The Digital Library is meeting the need of providing people immediate, on line, access to content. This is in contrast to a finding aid model like EAD or an online catalog like Orion2. Applications are being developed with tools that aid in the use of these materials when presented in a digital format.

The Intellectual Why Digital Libraries are a process, just as Invention is a process. The definitions and boundaries of what a Digital Library, or for that matter what a Library is, are changing and growing. A process does not have a final destination. The UCLA Library must be a part of this “invention process” so that when Digital Libraries become “commercially viable” UCLA is there in the game.

Who Invented the Light Bulb? A Brief History of the Light Bulb 1809 Humphry Davy - First arc lamp 1820 Warren De la Rue - First attempt to produce an incandescent light bulb 1840 William Robert Grove - Lights an auditorium with incandescent lamps 1841 Frederik de Moleyns - First patent for an incandescent lamp 1845 W.E. Staite - Second patent Other inventors in between… 1879 Thomas Edison - Used carbon fiber to produce a lamp that lasts for 13.5 hours. and of course: 1893 Heinrich Gobel - Wonn court decision against Edison and received credit as the inventor of the electric incandescent lamp.