Building the Mother of all Collections: the future of the National Library’s discovery services Warwick Cathro Assistant Director-General, Innovation National Library of Australia

National Library role Collecting, access, coordination roles Strong focus on national discovery services Support for research Strong interest in participating in research infrastructure development

Our medium term direction Build digital collections –web archives –newspaper and other “industrial scale” digitisation Restructure national discovery services Be involved in ANDS –such as support for a National Persistent Identifier Service (if selected)

Restructuring the national discovery services Implement a Service Oriented Architecture –move to discrete, loosely coupled, shareable, functional service components –use a “service framework” based on the JISC/DEST e-Framework Establish a virtually integrated “national metadata store” –“collection views” of that store –manage the national discovery service in an integrated way

Our goals For users: –provide access to a wider and more coherent set of data which exposes Australian collections –improve the search experience For the National Library: –maintain discovery services more effectively –IT Architecture Group report:

The problem: silos NBD RAAM Picture Australia People AustraliaARROWNewspapers Music Australia Pandora Journals NLA Catalogue

High level model Discovery Service Authentication Service Search Service Annotation Service Request Service Newspapers View Journals View Pictures View Music View National metadata store

Content of the national metadata store Full text indexes: –national digital newspaper collection –other digitised full text content (books, journals...) –oral history transcripts –national web archives (PANDORA, whole domain harvest) –biographical information Metadata: –Australian National Bibliographic Database –journal indexing data –finding aids –pictures metadata

What it might look like In Australian librariesOnline Australian All Newspapers Journals Pictures Maps more >> Advanced search Preferences TM In my libraries

What makes it unique A place for Australians to start a search that: –enables Australians to understand ourselves and our place in the world –gives prominence to information in Australia’s collecting institutions –is seen as authoritative, impartial, non- commercial

Types of collection view Format views: –Books, Journals, Newspapers, Theses, Pictures, Film & video, Music scores, Audio, Maps, Archives & manuscripts, Data sets, Web archives Topic views –People, Places, Concepts, Events “Specialisations” –Disciplines (history, music,...) –Contexts (eg “research outputs”)

Displaying the views

Newspaper view

Collection view: Journals Information about all Australian journals –including library holdings External targets –Google Scholar –Informit indexes and full text –ERA (Electronic Resources Australia) targets APAIS and AMI indexing data –business model transition Potential for incorporating digitised text from out-of-copyright journals

Defining a “Research View” Would encompass several formats: –scholarly books, journal articles, pre-prints, theses, data sets... Data harvested from university repositories Downstream harvesting by Google Scholar and other aggregators External targets: –Google Scholar itself –Future ANDS Discovery Service –Data sets in the ABS National Data Network

The NLA and ANDS ANDS service providers not known for several months NLA might provide some Utilities Program services In any case data sets, theses etc. could be external targets for our discovery service Relationship of ARROW Discovery Service to ANDS Utilities Program

Collection Services Registry Included in vision of ANDS Utilities Program Will support discovery: –facilitate selection of targets for federated search –describe services –machine/machine capabilities Prototype ORCA Registry

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Where are we up to? Formed an internal “Business Integration Taskforce” Is developing a prototype of new discovery service Have started to develop some service framework components (eg Harvest) We envisage a staged transition to the new model: –Stage 1 may involve the NBD (Libraries Australia free search service), newspaper data, people data