1. MyLibrary: manage the resources you need Vision - Concept - Realisation - Confrontation? - Integration IATUL, Kraków 2004 Ursula Jutzi

2. MyLibrary Vision - Concept - Realisation - Confrontation? - Integration

3. ETH Library  Function - Main library of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) - Swiss national centre for scientific and technical information  Collection -5.6 million items - over 6400 journals online full-text - 180 multidisciplinary, bibliographic databases - over 2500 e-books

4. Web Portal: Goals  Possibility to present content from different resources in logical „channels“ (content-aggregation)  Possibility to configure the portal according to personal requirements (customization)  Possibility to present content for specific groups

5. MyLibrary: Goals  Personalised portal page for ETH Library  Possibility to include external Internet resources  Support research and tuition at ETH Zurich  Realisation of a first version by the end of 2003  Scientists obtain a new tool for the management of all information resources

6. MyLibrary Vision - Concept - Realisation - Confrontation? - Integration

7. Verification of Requirements  Customer Survey (single login, integration of the library catalogue, management of external links)  Preliminary Study (easy to use, short cuts to library resources and services, central login)  ETH World Project (virtual campus for ETH Zurich)  uPortal (open source product, led by JA-SIG)

8. Mockup: Default Page

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10. Initial Page

11. Personal Start Page

12. Skins – User Preferences

14. Components of MyLibrary

15. Technical Framework  Software - Portal: uPortal 2.2.1 -apache - Java: j2sdk 1.4.2 -ServletContainer: Tomcat 5.0.18 - Database: postgresql 7.2.1 and mysql 3.23.56  Hardware - Test system 2 Dell PowerEdge 2650

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17. Collaboration with Partners within ETH  Portal Project for the 150 th anniversary in 2005 - Corporate Communications - Central IT Services - ETH World  Content provided by different suppliers should be presented together

18. Collaboration with Partners within ETH  Migration of the two technical systems into one  Name and design for the new project  Integration of different content  Integration of different philosophies  Changed PR activities  Tough time-limit for implementation of “myETH”

19. MyLibrary Vision - Concept - Realisation - Confrontation? - Integration

25. Next Steps  Beta-test in June  Fine-tuning (design, multilingual functionality etc.)  Enhancements for existing channels (e.g. person search)  Extensions to the general application (e.g. skins)

26. Next Steps  Integration of new content (development of new channels and interfaces to services within ETH Zurich)  Installation of a third server for load-balancing  Documentation  Marketing  User training  Going public on the 28th June 2004

27. MyLibrary: manage the resources you need Vision - Concept - Realisation - Confrontation? - Integration IATUL, Kraków 2004 Ursula Jutzi