1. Technology 13 ways of looking at … Lorcan Dempsey Solinet Meeting, May 2

2. CBS school, Ennis

3. Libraries – and the network space

4. Libraries

5. Shared cataloging – 70sA shared network space

6. Resource sharing – 80s

7. A shared network space Article discovery and delivery – 90s

8. A shared network space Collaborative reference, Digital content management, Digitisation, Scholarly communication

9. Progressive entry into a network space … Early stages of ‘digital’ libraries Being digital suggests reorganisation to best leverage individual and collective strengths Move away from vertical organisation around collection to horizontal organisation around process … And ….?

10. Generations

11. Social Business/policy Service Technical

12. Co-evolution

13. Active reshaping in a new medium Scholarly communication: –Moving from author-publisher-distributor-library chain to –… web in which all are potentially in contact with each other. –Co-evolution of new institutional forms with the support the network provides

14. A shared network space

15. A shared space – on campus The Digital Library, providing access for staff and students, wherever they are located, to networked information resources, which may in turn be disclosed to the outside world. e-Learning systems, providing the University with the capacity to enable learning and teaching in a flexible, place-independent, online environment, and enhancing the existing campus learning experience. The public Web site, providing a means of marketing the University and of communicating with students, potential students, alumni and others. The Corporate Intranet, providing staff with access to information and communication resources, and to means of conducting their business in a secure, online environment. A Student Intranet, providing students with access to student-centred information, learning resources, course management and communication facilities, as well as the ability to conduct financial and administrative functions online. And lots of other stuff. Hull

16. A shared space - the creative user Digital scholarship Digital research Digital learning Cultural heritage

17. Clash of Cultures Source: http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/clash

18. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy Supplementary Material Archives Source: http://msa.lib.ohio-state.edu/jmsa_hp.htm

19. Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) Motion Capture Lab Source: http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/mocap/mocap_info.htm

22. Architectures

23. Towards an information environment - services No single resource is the sole focus of a user’s attention In a distributed environment resources can be specialized to provide particular function Leverage communication between resources to add value to user’s experience Need a shared view and vocabulary

24. creation shared services portals content brokers and aggregators provision mediation infrastructure presentation Directories Registries Terminology S Resolution Authorisation Citation linking Which? Who? Which? Who?

25. So far.. Library operations progressively entering network space Generations of change shortening Co-evolution We are not alone with our users in this new shared space We need to begin to architect High acronymic density … Google is for finding out what acronyms stand for! Now..

26. Learning management systems

27. Learning management Fold information into the learning experience Relationship between library systems and learning systems Electronic reserve, reading lists, learning objects, … Own standards framework (IMS, IEEE/LOM, SCORM)

28. Directories Vocabulary Competency Metadata Repositories OrganizationsTraders Access Management MANAGE RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS CONTROL ACCESS AUTHENTICATE AUTHORISE AUDIT Procurement NEGOTIATE TRADE MAKE PAYMENT SEARCH Learner CreatorInfoseeker Repositories Assets Metadata Resource Utilizers DISCOVER REQUEST USE Presentation Mediation Provision People Agent RESOLVE Registries STORE EXPOSEMANAGESTOREEXPOSEMANAGE DELIVER (Query, Browse, Follow Path) ACCESS GATHER PUBLISH MANAGE ALERT EXPOSE

29. Interoperability as recombinant potential

30. Interoperability Traditional views of interoperability depend on pre- coordinated agreements about every aspect of syntax, structure, and semantics In the new shared space, this degree of coordination is harder to come by How do we address this? –Simplify? OAI –Complexify? Objects, services, metadata Pre-coordination gives way to recombinant systems?

31. OAI OAIHarvesterOAIHarvester WebBrowserWebBrowser UnionCatalogUnionCatalog DC/MARC HTML OAI Server#1 DC & EAD OAI Server#1 DC & EAD OAI Server#2 DC & MARC OAI Server#2 DC & MARC OAI Server#3 DC & VRA OAI Server#3 DC & VRA DC MARC DC

32. OAI “low-barrier” sharing of metadata Many potential uses –E-prints –Learning materials –Cultural heritage –… Model of the web … simple design supports multiple uses

33. Metadata

34. Data which supports operations on entities Life cycle –Creation, discovery, assembly, administrative, contextual, preservation, rights, … Domain –Learning, library, archives, etc Here come those acronyms (9) –MARC, MODS, ONIX, Dublin Core, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, METS, … Interoperability –Registry –RDF (resource description framework)?

35. Information objects

36. From atomic to recombinant Structure –Document images –SGML/TEI –XML –METS/content packages Collectible resources?

37. Services

38. Web services Web services are interfaces that describe operations that are network accessible through XML messaging. (IBM) Have a web of functional components as we now have web of pages.

39. OCLC web services examples e-Prints UK RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service Institutional e-print archives Personal e-print archives OAI-MHP Non-institutional e-print archives Subject classification service Name authority service Citation analysis service SOAP Javascript/HTTP Z39.50

41. YAP

42. ?

44. Some issues – lack of shared architecture No agreement on functional components. No shared vocabulary … middleware, portal, personalisation,…. Individualised solutions. Accelerated generational turnover (e.g. Z39.50 and OAI). Disagreement on technical approaches.

45. Some issues Different requirements –Breadth – demand side economies of scale –Depth – selective disciplinary depth –Projection – surface resources in other environments New technologies –Web services –Portlets –RSS –Directories/environment intelligence

46. shared services infrastructure Directories Registries Terminology S Resolution Authorisation Citation linking brokers and aggregators mediation Portals/portlets……api/web service content provision presentation

47. Preservation and archiving

48. Quick run OAIS –Conceptual framework within which to consider archival systems which manage materials over the long term –Many projects implementing OAIS Emulation/Migration Levels

51. dempseyl@oclc.org