1. DLI All Projects Meeting The Canadian Scene: National and Provincial Initiatives DLI All Projects Meeting 24 June 2002 Peter Binkley peter.binkley@ualberta.ca

2. DLI All Projects Meeting Overview Connectivity Digitization Access Provincial and Regional Projects

3. DLI All Projects Meeting Geography 5, History nil Map: Natural Resources Canada Natural Resources Canada

4. DLI All Projects Meeting Connectivity LibraryNet SchoolNet Canada’s Digital Collections: digitization component Canada’s Digital Collections National Broadband Initiative Smart Communities: community portals Smart Communities

5. DLI All Projects Meeting CCOP “Canadian Culture On-Line Program”Canadian Culture On-Line Program Federal funding program for cultural heritage digitization Cultural Portal project (2002-2003)

6. DLI All Projects Meeting CCOP Guidelines Stress on interoperability and integration Requirements for projects: use of Dublin Core for item description use of RSLP for collection description use of validated HTML, CSS, XML use of open standards for file formats etc.

7. DLI All Projects Meeting Digital Library of Canada Project of National Library of Canada (NLC) Projects: AMICUS: Union catalogue AMICUS Images Canada: gateway to image collections Images Canada

8. DLI All Projects Meeting CIDL Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries Established 1997 60 partner institutions

9. DLI All Projects Meeting Our Roots/Nos Racines Canada’s Local Histories Led by U. of Calgary and U. Laval Emphases: Peer review Comprehensiveness Use of pre-existing metadata (MARC)

10. DLI All Projects Meeting Educational Metadata CanCore: Canadian application profile for IMS Learning Object Metadata CanCore BELLE: Broadband Enabled Lifelong Learning Environment BELLE Alexandria: national repository of learning objects Alexandria ALOHA: Advanced Learning Object Hub Application ALOHA

11. DLI All Projects Meeting Z39.50: Bath Profile NLC is Maintenance AgencyMaintenance Agency Major research libraries migrating from DRA to SIRSI ASIN work on indexing

12. DLI All Projects Meeting National Site Licenses Canadian National Site Licensing Project Consortium of 64 university libraries Initial three-year project has produced: Model licensing agreement Several important licenses

13. DLI All Projects Meeting Provincial & Regional Projects The Alberta Library (TAL) The Alberta Library TAL Online; RPA; RSS; Licensing TAL Online The Ontario Digital Library Licensing; integration

14. DLI All Projects Meeting Open Source Projects Godot: link server Godot Pytheas: ILS Pytheas openILL: an ILL management system openILL

15. DLI All Projects Meeting Conclusions Top-down approach has been slow to develop, but is now coming Bottom-up enthusiasm is there, but unchannelled The mass of “legacy” projects will have to be tackled