1. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Digital library concepts Anna Maria Tammaro

2. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Outline  Differences in definitions, expectations, constituencies, visions and realities?  What is the role of a network?  What is a digital library? What are the essential elements and relationships?

3. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 What is a digital library?  Many different ideas and definitions  Concept of digital library means different things to different people

4. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Digital library concepts  Librarians – Another form of a physical library  Computer scientists – Distributed, text-based, information system or – Networked, multimedia information system  End users - Similar to WWW

5. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Borgman’ competing vision  Researchers – Content collected on behalf of user communities – Focus attention on problems to be addressed  Practicing librarians – Institutions or services Focus attention on practical challenges in transformation of research libraries & universities

6. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 What is new?  Availability of Internet => dramatic changes for how people – Collect, – Organize, – Disseminate, – Access, & – Use  Information focus  Networking: storage location is irrelevant to access

7. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 What is a library? The Library Tree  Roots: the core, links with the past  Trunk and branches: institutional strategy, resources organisation  Foliage and leaves: resources to access, future prospectives

8. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Digital Libraries issues Susan Hazan:  Libraries as place and/or virtual space? How create community? David Nicholas:  Risk of duplication!! Do users have the skills? Zhu Qiang, Rossella Caffo:  Management issues, standardisation, copyright

9. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Users empowerment  Electronic technologies place ever-greater power in the hands of library users  Increased empowerment => increased complexity & frustration

10. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Content creators  Susan Hazan described the huge rich market of information producers and providers  Einar Rottingen focused on “Users cooperation” They will also become producers They can create metadata

11. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Paradox  Modern technologies, permit users to be increasingly independent  But, to be used effectively electronic technologies demand high levels of expertise & experience

12. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Archival paradigm Digitise Archive Distribute

13. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Access to knowledge paradigm  Share  Organise  Search  Experience

14. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 Digital library and WWW  Similar but with improvements in – Performance, – Organization, – Functionality, & usability

15. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 ARL Definition  Digital library not a single entity  Digital library requires technology to link resources of many  Linkages among many digital libraries & information services transparent to end users  Goal: universal access to digital libraries & information services  Digital library collections not limited to document surrogates  Digital library collections include: – Digital artifacts that cannot be represented or distributed in printed formats

16. A.M.TammaroNMPLIS Summer School, Tblisi, July 5th-15th, 2010 EC definition  “Digital libraries are organised collections of digital content made available to the public. They can consist of material that has been digitised, such as digital copies of books and other ‘physical’ material from libraries and archives.  Alternatively, they can be based on information originally produced in digital format” – Commission Of The European Communities, “i2010: Digital libraries,” Brussels, 30.9.2005