1. UNC Digital Library Project
CTC Retreat
December 15, 2000
Agenda
Overview
Q&A for RFP
Digital Library Services

2. Project Background Campus Standards
Infrastructure for Storage/Retrieval
Faculty-led (FITAC)

3. Phase I Services (Spring 2001)
We intend to roll out services focused on three main audiences:
Curators
Instructors
Scholars

4. Services for Curators Improved access to collections
Support for a variety of media types
24x7 storage services
Standards-based metadata schema
Capability to support discipline-specific vocabularies
Mini-grant program for digitizing high-impact collections

5. Services for Instructors
Flexible rights management (limit access to students in a course, departments, etc.)
Improved access to other supporting materials
Presentation options
Web-based slide show
Side-by-side object comparison
Integration with desktop applications
Support for annotations and other associated data
Documentation, training

6. Services for Scholars Ability to share objects easily with peers
Common web interface to multiple digital collections
Customizable “My Digital Library” user interface
Multiple search options (keyword, browsing, etc.)
Compliance with guidelines for disability access

7. Development Team (Phase I)
ATN
Center for Instructional Technology
College of Arts and Sciences
NCSU and other digital library projects

8. Phase II (Fall 2001) Objectives
Establishment of appropriate policies/governance
Support for additional storage, media types, workflow features
Crosswalks written for additional campus collections
Integration with central library catalog?
Inter-institutional implementation and policy (definition of scope, authentication, copyright, rights management, crosswalks, etc.)

9. Phase II (Fall 2001) Ongoing Support
Funding for the digitization of collections
Systems upgrade, expansion and maintenance

10. UNC DL Functionality
Track and keep information about digital assets at UNC and elsewhere.
Provide a broad range of tools to aid instructors, researchers and students in discovering digital assets.
Allow users to organize, annotate, and share references to digital assets.
Provide tools that allow users to build customized views of digital assets and to share those views with colleagues and students.
Strong authentication and authorization to provide protection for copyrighted and restricted materials.

11. Structure of the DLP DATABASE INTERFACE MIDDLEWARE OBJECT STORAGE
OTHER PROJECTS

12. DATABASE Structure of the DLP DATABASE INTERFACE Oracle database
OTHER PROJECTS
DATABASE
OBJECT
STORAGE
MIDDLEWARE
DATABASE
Oracle database
Metadata Directory
User Management
Crosswalk Repository
Schema Repository
Controlled Vocabularies

13. MIDDLEWARE Structure of the DLP DATABASE Java Servlets / XML
INTERFACE
OTHER PROJECTS
DATABASE
OBJECT
STORAGE
MIDDLEWARE
Java Servlets / XML
Metadata Transformer
Authentication and Authorization
Discovery Tools
Object Manipulation
Presentation Tools
Class Rolls
MIDDLEWARE

14. INTERFACE Structure of the DLP DATABASE INTERFACE My Folders
OTHER PROJECTS
DATABASE
OBJECT
STORAGE
MIDDLEWARE
INTERFACE
My Folders
Administration, Display, and Search
The Buzz; What’s New?

15. Prototype Interface Admin, Display, Search My Folders
ADMIN: Allows the digital library visitor to publish his own material for others to use as well as arrange the contents of his My Folders space.
DISPLAY: Allows for different ways of showing off an individual object or group of objects within one’s space. Some common “displays” here would include slideshows and thumbnails.
SEARCH: Allows for basic keyword searching at any point in time, as well as access to more extensive search capabilities.
Prototype Interface
My Folders
A personal space where your uploaded objects as well as links to other objects can be organized. This space will also show the classes and projects you are currently involved in, in the capacity of instructor and/or student.
The Buzz / What’s New?
This space will include recent additions to the digital library, particularly those related to the visitor’s established areas of interest. The Buzz will specifically display the most accessed objects overall, within my field, etc. This space will also ultimately contain other information, such as live news feeds, both local and world-wide.

16. Links UNC Digital Library Project http://www.unc.edu/projects/diglib
Digital Library Final Report
Cocoon