Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries1 Personalized; consumer-driven information culture Highly competitive Increasingly cooperative Continuously innovative Blurring roles: instructor, learner, publisher Changing University Landscape Managing Digital Initiatives

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries2 Discovery and Evaluation Digital Persistence - Create Once / Always maintain Intellectual Property Management Library Collection “Gray Lit” Private colls Official docs Collaborative Sharing University Information Model

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries3 Managing Digital Initiatives Design Principles Scalable - expansion not replacement, build forward rather than rebuild Core integration - common service suite Flexible data architecture - support heterogeneous metadata to support unique needs of information Interoperable - based on open standards for collaboration and data exchange Robust and Secure – 24/7 availability, maintaining

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries4 Managing Digital Initiatives Design Principles Supports Simple, transparent information use Customized for user roles and information needs Secure against misuse; intellectual property theft User-centered - user collaboration

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries5 Creating a “Digital Playground”: Managing Digital Initiatives Boundaries to create an integrated, rich information space with a multiple common services Within those boundaries - customization, personalization - “everyone can play.”

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries6 Managing Digital Initiatives The “Hybrid” Library Goal: Seamless integration of analog and digital information Building designs that encompass inviting, immersive stacks and analog materials use areas; improving circulation workflow Core integration of analog and digital through the metadatabase

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries7 Managing Digital Initiatives Build a Common Service Suite Metasearch engine across collections METS structure map for defining parts, concatenating into collections, linking descriptive and technical information - database driven design Multiple display and export formats from structure map Core intellectual property management - collaboration with Internet2, CNI, ViDe and others

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries8 Managing Digital Initiatives Build an Open-Architecture Repository Distributed, managed, secure digital storage Centralized metadatabase with data registry Security mechanisms for data storage and user access Treat all information resources as mission-critical with common security infrastructure and peering or failover procedures

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries9 Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Open-Architecture Repository Data Ingest Digital Object Storage Database Data Export Library repository

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries10 Managing Digital Initiatives Extend core services across the university Dynamic personalized web spaces to support information discovery and collaboration (AMIA Moving Image Gateway Project) Moving Forward

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries11 Managing Digital Initiatives “Intelligent Information Portal” Simple search interface (“Google” model) Blend description with reference evaluation Intelligent metadata that “self-describes” by portal Partner with other departments for development Different results for different user roles (Intenet2 Commons) Personal portal : create collections, components, search strategies, searchable, standardized dynamic site map

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries12 Managing Digital Initiatives The Metadata Repository Core registry that maps to reference schema – “RU Core” Schema, language and character set independent Enables self-describing of data by portal identifier (e.g. education data elements for education portals, etc. AMIA MIG model – separate tables for portal ID and for each data element, with extensive attributes (lang, charset, portalID, etc.)

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries13 Managing Digital Initiatives The Role of Metadata:  Bring intelligence, coherence to digital collections and the fragmented web  Selection, organization, preservation, discovery, interpretation  Enable the creator and the customer to make sense of digital information.  Active collaboration with the customer in this enterprise

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries14 MODEL Record Structure Repository Design Data Element Registration Database Population Dissemination to Users Data interchange ( other repositories) Metadata Repository Managing Digital Initiatives

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries15 Managing Digital Initiatives Open Standards for Interoperability; Transport  Z39.50 Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification Client/Server computer-to-computer communications protocol that specifies query and retrieval of information: bibliographic data, full-text documents; images, and multimedia in a distributed network environment, across disparate computer systems, databases and search engines. Current version: 3  Resource Description Framework (RDF) 

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries16 Managing Digital Initiatives Open Standards for Interoperability; Transport RDF – Resource Description Framework Enables interoperability among metadata schemes, including the modular use of multiple schemes within a metadata record utilizing the XML namespace facility; Adds machine-interpretable semantics to the encoding, exchange and reuse of structured metadata;

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries17 Open Archives Initiative Service Provider OAI Database ArchiveIDRecordIDCollectionIDDateStampAccess=“open” Metadatabase Data mining – repository to repository; user to repository Managing Digital Initiatives

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries18 Managing Digital Initiatives Open Standards for Interoperability; Transport SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol Combines XML envelope with programming layers that are stripped off, as appropriate, at each hop. Potential application – Digital Rights Management

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries19 Managing Digital Initiatives Open Standards for Interoperability; Transport XML – Extensible Markup Language A data exchange and markup language with inherent semantic meaning for elements ability to combine programming with data, particularly with XSLT transport and interoperability protocol

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries20 Managing Digital Initiatives Open Standards for Interoperability; Transport METS – Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard Enables concatenation of metadata records and schema for description, administration, rights, etc Enables interoperable structuring of complex objects (multi-page document, sequential video file, etc., for search and retrieval within structures, across documents

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries21 Managing Digital Initiatives Open Standards for Interoperability; Transport SCORM – Shareable Content Object Reference Model Provides IMS (instructional metadata standard) description for educational objects Enables SCORM-compliant objects to be imported and exported into compliant instructional management systems (WebCT, Blackboard, etc. Coming – structuring into lesson plans and syllabi

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries22 Managing Digital Initiatives Sustainability Collections and Services support core mission and primary strategic goals Build a distributed, shared infrastructure with core standards and technologies – actively partner across the organization

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries23 Managing Digital Initiatives Evaluating Sustainability Interval and impact of initiative – 1 year, 5 years, 10 years – value to institution as a whole and to key stakeholder groups Project Evolution Path – initiation, development, maintenance, enhancement, completion. How do we know when the useful life has ended?

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries24 Managing Digital Initiatives Evaluating Sustainability Coexistence – dependent, neutral, or competitive with other initiatives and ongoing services.1 year, 5 years, 10 years – value to institution as a whole and to key stakeholder groups

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries25 Managing Digital Initiatives The Digital Initiative in Context Identify core (mission-critical) activities. What percentage of effort/time do they require ---should they require? (workflow analysis What percentage of time/effort remains for R&D – tomorrow’s core? Workflow analysis – project development vs. project management. Commonalities between core and R&D

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries26 Managing Digital Initiatives The Digital Initiative in Context Strategic training Continuous evaluation – stand alone and in-context

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries27 Managing Digital Initiatives Customer Support is Key Support for New Roles: Information Seeker Information Publisher Lifelong Learner