a service for the nation ari rouvari 16. - 17.8.2004 pedase, vihterpalu
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A Service For the Nation
Ari Rouvari 16. - 17.8.2004
Pedase, Vihterpalu
TOPICS
• Information retrieval portals• Services
• Nelli, National Electronic Library Interface • The Finnish consortia model• A little demo• Usability
• Interoperability• Development projects
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PORTALSWHY?
• a lot of heterogenius resources• For example in Finland (FinELib)
– 14 500 ejournals– Over 175 databases– A lot of library catalogues
• Library systems - we need something more
• How to organize• How to use
DEFINITION by Marc Carden
A common interface that allows users toaccess library-owned resources and library-
accessible resources.
DEFINITION BY ELAG
A LIBRARY portal is an application which allows one-stop-shop access/searching and discovery via a unified single-point interface to organized heterogeneous resources and enabling services to a pre-defined community (users)
DEFINITION BY JISC
• Technically, a portal is a network service that brings together content from diverse distributed resources using technologies such as cross searching, harvesting, and alerting, and collates this into an aggregated form for presentation to the user, usually via a website
Services and characters
• organizing• metasearching• display• authentication• authorization• tailoring• personalization
• OpenURL linking• Standard interfaces
Visions and aims
• one-stop-shop• single-sign-on• One search, all
services• easy to use
•Centralized maintaining & management
•One server for the entire nation
•Local user interfaces
•tailoring
•Local services
•Collaborative development of services
Keep it simple stupid!
FinELib
• acquires resources. • negotiates user-rights agreements
• University Libraries (20)• Libraries of polytechnics (31)• Research Libraries (35)• Municipal Libraries (21)
CUSTOMERS OF NELLI
Entire Finland• 20 university libraries (2004)• 30 polytechnics (2005)• (450) public libraries (2005) 20 regional
libraries• research lib. (later)
The Value Chain of Digital Library Services
Acquiring of digital resources
FinELib
Digitisation of cultural heritage
Mikkeli
Archiving of digital resources User
interface
”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF
1. The portal (Metalib/SFX)• user interface / Authentication
• metasearch
• linking resolver & access restriction
2. Library system (Voyager)• description metadata
3. Document archive(Encompass)• technical metadata
• repository
Standard-base, standard interfaces• openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc
Portal
library
system
Document
archive
Z39.50ZING
OpenURL
NELLI
• Metalib portal software, by ExLibris• SFX OpenURL resolver • by Exlibris• One server (SF 4800)• local user interfaces• local services
USABILITY CASE STUDIES
• Amsterdam university• Two test groups
• Loughborough University, (Stubbings and Hamblin,2004).
• promising trend in the use of libraries’ information• the use of databases rose by 609% over the previous year.• Zetoc rose by 1,385% & SportDiscus by 1,207%. • not cross-searchable saw an increase in usage, for example, • ICEA went up by 225% and ANES by 36%.
QUICKSEARCH
FIND RESOURCES
Nelli-portal in consortia environment
Centralized tasks:• co-ordinating the project• implementing / maintaining• updating SFX/Metalib• SFX activiting instructions• configuration files (Metalib)• descriptions of resources• user interfaces (multi-
languages)• Development of services
Local tasks:• Authentication• Activating SFX-targets• Copying of conf. Files• Copying of descriptions• Local tailoring• Local services• training
Authentication & authorization
1. LDAP(Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol) 2. Remote authentication
hook• CGI-program• Shibboleth
– esay-to-use– Secure– Standard base
• IP address ranges• Shibboleth ?
Shibboleth authentication
Nelli-portal
Shibbolethtarget site= proxy
Home campus
3. Auth. OK
1. select home campus
2. Auth. starts
Shibbolethorigin site
login &password
LDAPdirectory
4. Attribute request
5. Response attr: email address
remote authenticationCGI-hook
Shibboleth authorization (vision)
Nelli-portalHome campus
SFX-target:ejournal database
Attribute Authority
Authentication
Handle service
SFX Resolver
Attribute query
Attribute resonse / pass on attributes
cross-searchtarget dbs
”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF
1. The portal (Metalib/SFX)• user interface / Authentication
• metasearch
• linking resolver & access restriction
2. Library system (Voyager)• description metadata
3. Document archive(Encompass)• technical metadata
• repository
Standard-base, standard interfaces• openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc
Portal
library
system
Document
archive
Z39.50ZING
OpenURL
one scenario: digital music collection (legal deposit copies)
Search interface
Nelli-portal
Targetdatabase
Linnea-library system
Z39.50
recordsaccess control
SFX-resolverdigital archive
digital objects
special metadata
restrict access by collections
OpenUrl
OpenUrl
THE RESOURCE MAP OF FINNISH ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Australian Libraries Gateway
Scottish Collections Network, SCONE
Describe
DCCD application
Evaluate
Conspectus method
USER INTERFACE FETISHISM
Nelli-portal:• Local interfaces• Regional interfaces• National interfaces
Library system• OPACs
Document archive
Customer oriented way
More is better?
INTEROPERABILITY WITH
• Institutional portals /university portals
Integration with elearning systems
Instructors• Define reading list• Define searches• Define resources
End users• Use reading list• Use pre-defined
searches
Goal:
Anywhere, any time
CONCLUSION
FOCUS ON…
The Needs of the customers
Information literacy
Open Access
Librarians should
support free Information
Creative & innovative staff
Tänan Tähelepanu eest!
…professionals?
Technical environment
• Sun Fire 4800 and Solaris-OS• Software: Apache, MySQL, Oracle• Technical maintenance (patches in OS, all the
backups) by CSC, the Finnish IT center for science
• Connecting to the Funet Backbone Network
Strenghts & Weaknesses
+ Applications/softwares
+ ExLibris help desk
+ Management tools
+ SFX, it’s magic
+ SFX KDB
+ Exlibris attidute
- multi-language
- Consortia model
- Usability/ Quick search
- Ejournal tool
- Metalib statistics
Nelli organization
• Nelli staff • Ari, co-ordinating• Tiina, technical issues• mr/mrs X, services
• The Portal team (9)• local project managers (20)• local trainers (10)
document archive LS-
team
Portal team
The Triangle team