1. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative What is a Digital Library Initiative Employing digital technologies to support access, understanding and use of information by faculty and students to support the university’s core mission--research and education. Provide seamless, immersive access to information--our resources and the resources of others.

2. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative What is a Digital Library Initiative Insure a shared understanding of information, as well as its discovery and use. Support our users in all their roles: researcher, educator, publisher and learner --a lifelong role! Provide core services to build a digital repository for RU information sources--both integrated and distributed

3. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Design Principles User-centered - user collaboration Supports Simple, transparent information use Customized for user roles and information needs Secure against misuse; intellectual property is appropriately safeguarded.

4. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Design Principles Sustainable -- collections and services are part of core mission. Core Applications suite supports addition of new archives and projects. Lifecycle of proposed projects are understood. Distributed, flexible infrastructure that supports independence with integration across RU. Seamless access to information and services Scalable - expansion not replacement, build forward rather than rebuild

5. Design Principles Core integration - common service suite Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Flexible data management - support heterogeneous metadata to support unique needs of information with a “core” that is understandable across all collections. Interoperable - based on open standards for collaboration and data exchange

6. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative The “Hybrid” Library Goal: Seamless integration of analog and digital information. Ease of discovery and access regardless of format. Building designs that encompass inviting, immersive stacks Core integration through the metadatabase

7. Discovery and Evaluation Digital Persistence - Create Once / Always maintain Intellectual Property Management Library Collection “Gray Lit” Private colls Official docs Collaborative Sharing University Information Model

8. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Initial Steps: Build an Open-Architecture Repository Infrastructure Distributed, managed digital storage providing information that is durable and secure. Centralized database with data registry Open protocols that support sharing information across libraries and across campus: Creating a shared, “virtual” collection of university information providers.

9. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Open-Architecture Repository Data Ingest Digital Object Storage Database Data Export Library repository

10. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Initial Steps: Build a Common Service Suite Metasearch engine across collections METS structure map for defining parts, concatenating into collections, linking descriptive and technical information - database driven design Multiple display and export formats from structure map Core intellectual property management - collaboration with Internet2, CNI, ViDe and others

11. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Initial Steps: Build a Common Service Suite Metadata driven archives (“portals”) which support data sharing within and outside RU. Open Archives Initiative implementation for sharing metadata--participating in other union catalog initiatives. Enabling our “information provider” users to share their metadata with their initiatives. OAI is a core “middleware” interoperability protocol required by NSF and other granting agencies.

12. Role of Interoperability Protocols OAI  OAI - Open Archives Initiative. HTTP-based protocol for simple searching and data mining across metadata repositories. METS  METS - Metadata Encoding and Transport Standard- concatenates descriptive, administrative and rights metadata into an OAIS dissemination information package. Provides structure map for complex objects. SCORM  SCORM - Shareable Content Object Reference Model. Combines IEEE LOM metadata with run-time initialization to provide data objects that can be pulled into IMS applications for use in lesson plans, syllabi, etc. Z39.50  Z39.50 - Data Exchange and Transport Protocol  MPEG-7  MPEG-7 - Multimedia Content Description Interface ALA / ALCTS Nov. 2002 Slide 12 Rutgers Digital Library Initiative

13. Open Archives Initiative Protocol (OAI) Metadata record mining using OAI protocol commands imbedded in HTTP (GetRecord, ListRecords) Service providers pull records from data providers for union catalog implementations Limited set definitions and limited flow control Requires Archives ID, Record ID, and datestamp ALA / ALCTS G. Agnew Nov. 2002 Slide 13 Rutgers Digital Library Initiative

14. Provides encoding and transmission of descriptive, administrative and structural metadata using XML Provides for transmission of metadata. Associates structure map, file types and behaviors with digital objects to provide “intelligent” complex objects - e.g. E-Journal with machine and human recognizable “table of contents,” “abstract,” “citation,” etc. METS: Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard G. Agnew Rutgers Digital Library Initiative

15. Standard to create interoperable “learning objects”--can run on any compliant LMS/LCMS. Model includes: Required run time that compliant LMS must support required descriptive metadata - IEEE LOM application profile Structure map for complex objects (“SCOs”) Simple sequencing specification SCORM - Shareable Content Object Reference Model G. Agnew Rutgers Digital Library Initiative

16. Z39.50: ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995 (ISO 23950): Supports data exchange between repositories Supports federated searching by individuals across distributed repositories Client/Server computer-to-computer communications protocol that specifies query and retrieval of information: bibliographic data, full-text documents; images, and multimedia in a distributed network environment, across disparate computer systems, databases and search engines. Rutgers Digital Library Initiative

17.  Synchronization between content and description  Creation of dynamic and “permanent” segments and clips  Non-textual indexing - melody and speech recognition, color, shape, scene changes, etc.  Textual format/Binary Format completely equal Rutgers Digital Library Initiative MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface

18. NYTSL 2002-05-10 Agnew RUCore at Rutgers Performing Arts Iris Luna Dynamic Portal DB Environmental Sciences LCMS Learning Object

19. NYTSL 2002-05-10 Agnew Performing Arts Iris Luna Environmental Sciences Moving Image Gateway Core DB Archives A OAI Gateway: Dublin Core Science Education Portal Portal DB Moving Image Collections Project

20. IRIS LUNA RU-ONLINE JAZZ NJEDL NJ- IANA Rutgers Scrapbook Project: Digital Preservation of photographs and pages Technical (“preservation” metadata) METS STRUCTURE MAP Testbed Participant in “Digital New Jersey”

21. IRIS LUNA RU-ONLINE JAZZ NJEDL NJ- IANA MARC Export of books, serials into IRIS Direct export facility to LUNA MCS LOM-compliant database for MCS; OAI mining for NJEDL

22. IRIS LUNA RU-ONLINE JAZZ NJEDL NJ- IANA Convert in-house database into DC/MPEG-7. Collaborations with Music Library, other collections (Indiana Variations, Juilliard?) Metadatabase; digitizing standards, etc. for Classics

23. Role of RUL Faculty and Staff ALA / ALCTS Nov. 2002 Slide 23 Rutgers Digital Library Initiative DAWG DAWG - Digital Architecture/Infrastructure WG Developing storage and delivery infrastructure and core enabling technologies. (R. Jantz, Chair) Data Architecture WG - Data Architecture WG - Developing a flexible “core” data registry for discovery and access via a “common understanding”. Key role in metadata-derived portal development (R. Marker, Chair) Digital Collection WG - Digital Collection WG - Developing criteria for selecting and managing digital collections (R. Sewell, Chair) Planning Committee - Planning Committee - Developing education and training - -websites, in-house training, etc.

24. Role of RUL Faculty and Staff ALA / ALCTS Nov. 2002 Slide 24 Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Assessment Assessment - Understanding the “information ecology” at RU: How do core user groups use information for research and education activities? What are their information sources? What is RUL’s “market share?” What digital information do our core users create and manage? What potential digital information sources (analog, frequently nontraditional.”

25. Role of RUL Faculty and Staff ALA / ALCTS Nov. 2002 Slide 25 Rutgers Digital Library Initiative Developing a Sustainability Model Maintaining a project or collection’s durability and usefulness -- “keeping our promise.” Developing “application suite” that enables RUL to create and manage digital collections/services and to integrate services created by others. Develop and document minimum “best practices” for the creation and management of digital collections Participate in testbeds. Determine the “lifecycle” of a project via testbeds. Participate in testbeds.