April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Libraries Strategic Plan Theme III Work to shape the future MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Discovery What is the role of libraries in the online network of Scholarly Communication? Information Provider: DSpace repository Thomson ISI’s Web Citation Index Elsevier’s SCOPUS Google Scholar Information Consumer: seamless access Google Scholar pilot project

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Discovery How will scholars find relevant content on the Web? New information service model Instruction and self-help services SIMILE project Semantic Web research collaboration with MIT CSAIL, W3C Improve tools for discovering and navigating digital resources on the Web Data architecture scalable to the entire Web Interoperable across systems, institutions, domains of practice

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Education How should libraries manage digital teaching materials? Libraries Metadata Unit provides Consulting, expertise Content description production CWSpace project 1000 OpenCourseWare online MIT courses Content hard to find, reuse Standards immature, evolving

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Education How should libraries support online courses and pedagogical tools? SAKAI Libraries project Collaboration with SAKAI core partners: Michigan, Indiana, Stanford, and MIT Prototypes for using digital library materials and services in the classroom

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Collections How will libraries manage digital data over archival time frames? Verde System for electronic resource information management Licensed or local content Integrated with other library systems, e.g. Barton Co-developed with library system vendor DSpace System for digital asset management and dissemination Associated service model for institutional repositories Digital preservation research agenda

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Collections How can libraries participate in the emerging Cyberinfrastructure? project Digital data curation crisis Collaboration with scientists, researchers Archive science, social science research data for Discovery & Reuse Long-term Preservation of scholarly record

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Digital Collections How will digital libraries scale up? DSRB project NARA/NSF funded research collaboration SDSC and the Data Grid Defining storage “utilities” Software to manage highly distributed, replicated content Models for long-term archiving, curation, preservation

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Partnerships What is the relationship between a university research library and a university press? Collaborate with the MIT Press Archiving digital content (e.g. e-journals) Partnership for Traditional publications New forms of publication e.g. scientific data

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Partnerships What partnerships can libraries form to work together on problems? DSpace Federation “Community” Open Source Software 75 live sites, more in progress exemplar More then 14,000 items deposited Evolving business plan and marketing strategies Focus for advocacy, publicity

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Partnerships DSpace Federation Building new markets for institutional content management Forming new communities for discussion, exploration, collaboration e.g. mailing lists, workshops, conferences Influencing digital access and preservation strategies

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Partnerships Digital Library Community Technology partnerships Digital Library Abstract Service Framework Global Digital Format Registry Digital Scholarly Communication partnerships SPARC, Creative Commons, Science Commons DPubS publishing system (Cornell, Penn State)

April 14, 2005MIT Libraries Visiting Committee Partnerships How are libraries making the transition to the digital era? Define the right research problems Learn through experimentation and outreach Collaborate with others e.g. National Archives, Google With great difficulty!