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2. Managing Director, Ex Libris China
DigiTool - A Comprehensive Solution for Digital Asset Management for Libraries and Academic Institutions
Fucheng Shen (沈辅成）
Managing Director, Ex Libris China
January 6, 2006 , Hongkong

3. Overview
Company & Customers
Products & Solutions
DAMS & DigiTool

4. What We Do?
Ex Libris is a world leader in software solutions for managing academic and e-content library resources

5. Ex Libris at a Glance
Business Library automation and e-content management
Customers Over 1,500 libraries in 62 countries/regions, including 4 of the world’s 5 largest libraries
Installations Over 60 countries/regions worldwide
Presence 8 subsidiaries and offices, 15 distributors
Headcount 260+ professionals
Ownership Privately held

6. Global distribution and clients
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey
38%
UK, Germany, France,
Boston
Chicago
41%
Korea
United States
Israel
China
Japan
Mexico
Taiwan 7%
Colombia
Brazil
12%
Australia
Chile 2%
8 Subsidiaries and Offices
15 Distributors

7. Commitment to Industry Standards
Active in the development of new industry standards with international standards bodies
National Information Standards Organization (NISO), British Standards Institute (BSI), ILL Protocol Implementers Group (IPIG), Z39.50 Implementers Group
Ex Libris solutions support a wide range of leading industry standards
MARC 21, MAB, Z39.50, Dublin Core, SIP2, NCIP, TCP/IP, XML, HTML, EDIFACT for EDI, EANCOM, ISO ILL, OpenURL, OAI-PMH
Standards compliance ensures interoperability and future-proof investment

8. Development Partnerships
Collaboration with leading international partners – a key element in product development strategy
SFX link server and OpenURL standard: University of Ghent, Belgium
MetaLib: Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)
DigiTool: University of Maryland, USA, and Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Verde: Harvard University Library and MIT Libraries
Partnerships ensure development of customer-focused solutions that meet real market needs

9. Select Customers Academic Harvard University Tsinghua University
MIT Fudan University
California Digital Library Sichuan University
King’s College London Beijing Jiaotong University

10. Select Customers National Libraries The Russian State Library
The British Library The Royal Library of Sweden
The National Library of China Austrian National Library (ANL)
The National Library of Mexico

11. Overview
Company & Customers
Products & Solutions
DAMS & DigiTool

12. Growing, integrated product portfolio
Company Evolution
Future
Products
MetaLib (2001)
Easy-access library portal to e-resources
500+ customers
ALEPH 500 (1997)
Llibrary automation system 1,250+ customers
Verde (2005) e-Resource Management (ERM) System
45+ customers
DigiTool (2002) Digital Collection Management System 53+ customers
SFX (2000) The original link server 900+ customers
Time

13. ALEPH: Integrated Library System
Library Portal
Flexible: modular and modifiable components
Easy to use: intuitive workflows and graphical interfaces
Scalable: for customers of all sizes
Open architecture: based on industry standards
Integrated
Library
System
Local Repositories
Link Server
e-Resource Management

14. SFX: Context Sensitive Linking
Library Portal
The original link server
Based on the OpenURL standard
Includes a knowledge base unrivaled in scope
Hosted locally or via ASP subscription
Local Repositories
Integrated
Library
System
Link Server
e-Resource Management

15. MetaLib: The Library Portal
Enables libraries to manage their information resources
Provides end users with easy access to resources
Features metasearch
Offers personalized environment and services
Includes SFX
Integrated
Library
System
Local Repositories
Link Server
e-Resource Management

16. Verde: e-Resource Management
Library Portal
Manages e-collections throughout resource lifecycle
Provides tools for collection development and cost analysis for single institutions and consortia
Includes extensive knowledge base
Highly interoperable with Ex Libris and other products
Addresses DLF ERMI requirements and beyond
Integrated
Library
System
Local Repositories
Link Server
e-Resource Management

17. DigiTool: Digital Asset Management
Library Portal
Rapid cataloging of digital collections
Broader access to digital resources
Digital rights management features
Digital preservation of institutional assets
Integrated
Library
System
Local Repositories
Link Server
e-Resource Management

18. Overview
Company & Customers
Products & Solutions
DAMS & DigiTools

19. What is DigiTool?
DigiTool is an enterprise solution for the management of digital assets in libraries.
Institutional Repository
Digitized Collections
Learning Objects
Licensed Collections
Preservation System

20. The Need
Today’s libraries and academic institutions are facing a wide variety of digital collections:
Institutional repositories
Theses
Research papers
Committee reports
Educational materials
Learning objects and licensed collections
National heritage collections
Special collections

21. The Need
And each collection may include a wide variety of digital object types:
Text (.doc, .pdf, .rtf, .exl, .ppt)
Image (.gif, .tiff, .jpeg .jp2)
Audio (.ram, .wav)
Video (.mpeg, .mpg, .avi)
Institutions managing these digital assets require tools to organize this content into distinct collections to better enable sharing with growing numbers of end users from the local institution as well as with other organizationa

22. The Need The ever-increasing quantity of data +
Frequently changing technologies
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Better understanding of the urgency of digital object preservation and the involved complexities

23. What can DigiTool do?
DigiTool enables institutions to create, manage, and preserve locally administered digital collections…

24. … empowers end users in exploring the digital collections and accessing digital content….

25. …and facilitates the integration of the digital collections with institutional portals, e-learning systems, and other products and services

26. DigiTool Functional Modules
Deposit
Approval
Single & Bulk
Search & Index
Dispatcher & Viewers
Component-based, modular design. Interaction between components is protocol-based
DigiTool supports compound structures:
When a digital object is available in several format, a single
descriptive metadata record can point to several technical
metadata records, each associated with a specific format or
Resolution of the same digital object.

27. DigiTool Customers 53 customers around the world North America – 17
Europe - 31
Australia – 4
Israel - 1
3 national libraries (BL, ANL, BRB)

28. Why DigiTool ?
One system that can manage various types of digital collections
Completely scalable
Supports implementation in multi institution/department environments

29. Why DigiTool ? Supports interoperability through open architecture
Based on industry standards
MARC 21
Dublin Core
METS
MIX
OpenURL
Z39.50
OAI

30. Why DigiTool ?
Offered by Ex Libris--a vendor that traditionally offers best-of-breed products for the library market
MARC 21
Dublin Core
METS
MIX
OpenURL
Z39.50
OAI

31. Thank you!