1. NELLI, The Finnish National Electronic Library Interface Ari Rouvari 9. - 11.6.2004 ELAG 2004 Trondheim

2. TOPICS Visions and aims Implementing situation in Finland Consortia model Authentication / Authorization User interface fetishism The service core, The Triangle An example of the use of Triangle

3. The Value Chain of Digital Library Services Acquiring of digital resources FinELib Digitisation of cultural heritage Mikkeli Archiving of digital resources User interface

4. ”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF 1. The portal (Metalib/SFX) user interface / Authentication metasearch linking resolver & access restriction 2. Library system (Voyager) description metadata 3. Document archive(Encompass) technical metadata repository Standard-base, standard interfaces openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc Portal library system Document archive Z39.50ZING OpenURL

5. CUSTOMERS & VISIONS CUSTOMERS: Entire Finland 20 university libraries (2004) 30 polytechnics (2005) (450) public libraries (2005) 20 regional libraries research lib. (later) VISIONS & AIMS Easy-to-use One-stop-shop Single sign on One search, all services Centralized maintaining & management One server for the entire nation Local user interfaces tailoring Local services Collaborative development of services Keep it simple stupid!

6. USER INTERFACE FETISHISM Nelli-portal: Local interfaces Regional interfaces National interfaces Library system OPACs Document archive Customer oriented way More is better?

7. Nelli organization 14 000 ejournals 175 databases OPACs Nelli staff (Ari & Henri) The Portal team (9) local project managers (20) local trainers (10) document archive LS- team Portal team The Triangle team

8. Nelli-portal in consortia environment Centralized tasks: co-ordinating the project implementing / maintaining updating SFX/Metalib SFX activiting instructions configuration (Metalib) descriptions of resources user interfaces (multi- languages) Development of services Local tasks: Authentication Activating SFX-targets Copying of conf. Files Copying of descriptions Local tailoring Local services training

9. Authentication & authorization 1. LDAP 2. Remote authentication hook CGI-program Shibboleth –esay-to-use –Secure –Standard base IP address ranges Shibboleth ?

10. Shibboleth authentication Nelli-portal Shibboleth target site = proxy Home campus 3. Auth. OK 1. select home campus 2. Auth. starts Shibboleth origin site login & password LDAP directory 4. Attribute request 5. Response attr: email address remote authentication CGI-hook

11. Shibboleth authorization (vision) Nelli-portal Home campus SFX-target: ejournal database Attribute Authority Authentication Handle service SFX Resolver Attribute query Attribute resonse / pass on attributes Metaserach target dbs

12. ”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF 1. The portal (Metalib/SFX) user interface / Authentication metasearch linking resolver & access restriction 2. Library system (Voyager) description metadata 3. Document archive(Encompass) technical metadata repository Standard-base, standard interfaces openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc Portal library system Document archive Z39.50ZING OpenURL

13. one scenario: digital music collection (legal deposit copies) Search interface Nelli-portal Target database Linnea-library system Z39.50 records access control SFX-resolver digital archive digital objects special metadata restrict access by collections OpenUrl

14. THE RESOURCE MAP OF FINNISH ACADEMIC LIBRARIES Australian Libraries Gateway Scottish Collections Network, SCONE Describe DCCD application Evaluate Conspectus method

15. CONCLUSION Creative & innovative staff Open Access Librarians should support free Information Keep it simple stupid!

16. Technical environment Sun Fire 4800 and Solaris-OS Software: Apache, MySQL, Oracle Technical maintenance (patches in OS, all the backups) by CSC, the Finnish IT center for science Connecting to the Funet Backbone Network

17. Strenghts & Weaknesses + Applications/softwares + ExLibris help desk + Management tools + SFX, it’s magic + SFX KDB + Exlibris attidute - multi-language - Consortia model - Usability/ Quick search - Ejournal tool - Metalib statistics