MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT GLOBE: The Global Alliance of Digital Libraries Yasutaka Shimizu & Gerry Hanley MERLOT International Conference Nashville, Tennessee July 24, 2005

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT What’s up around the GLOBE? MERLOT’s widening horizons – It takes a village… GLOBE: G lobal L earning O bject B rokered E xchange NIME: National Institute for Multimedia Education

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Slipstreaming Outcome: Improving Your Performance By Leveraging Other’s Work Process:Collaboration that can be… Cooperative to Competitive Intentional to Incidental Synchronously to Asynchronously

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Our Slipstreaming Increasing access to collections with other Digital Libraries –Edna (Australia)- ARIADNE (EU) –NIME (Japan) - COMPadre (physics) –CAUSE (statistics)- Safari U –Journal of Chemical Education - Internet Scout (Workforce Dev) Higher Education Organizations complementing us – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative- TLT Group – New Media Consortium- IMS – Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Learning Management Systems can use us – Blackboard- WebCT- Angel – Desire2Learn- Moodle- Sentient Discover – O’Reilly Media Technology Corporations supporting us – Sun Microsystems - Macromedia

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT GLOBE will be a consortium of online services and tools that will provide an integrated search of learning objects for individuals and educational institutions worldwide. The consortium will provide a distributed network of learning objects that meet quality standards. By sharing the resources through a federated search, strategic alliances and technical interfaces need only be made once, but all of GLOBE benefits from these partnerships.

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Who Will Serve? Higher Ed Vocational Programs K-12 Corporate Training Life-long/Independent Learners

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Community Principles GLOBE will be an Open Community as defined by the following principles: Develop and make available policies and procedures for inviting and enabling member participation, striving to keep the barrier of entry and participation low. Provide open specifications and community source code that is openly shared among community members in accordance with community policies, whenever source code is developed. Use standards, where appropriate, and contribute back to the development of these standards based on experiences and best practices.

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Who will be Members? A member organization of the GLOBE consortium can be, but is not limited to: Digital Libraries Digital Content Providers Educational Institutions Technology Organizations Technology Corporations Professional Societies and Organizations Other organizations that will advance the mission of GLOBE

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT How Will Be Governed? Stewardship Council – Founding Partners –Technology Council with Co-Chairs –Business Council with Co-Chairs –Project Manager that keeps it all going

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Services Anonymous User Services –Simple Search –Selective Search/Browse After Simple Search –Browse Registered User Services provide users progressive support for their decisions in: –Finding online resources to be used for their purposes. –Planning how they can use the materials for their purposes Snapshots, assignments, personal collections for materials across all collections

MERLOT Conference July 27, 2005 Copyright MERLOT Milestones for August 2004 –First meeting of GLOBE partners in US February 2005 –Technology Team meeting in Australia –Business Case Team meeting in Japan July 2005 –Partner implementation of GLOBE November 2005 Phase 1 requirements implemented. Beginning of 2007: World wide kick-off