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Page 1: The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib)

Chris Rusbridge: Electronic Libraries Program (eLib) 10/04/23 1

The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Electronic Libraries

Programme (eLib)UNC Seminar, Oxford, May 1998

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Chris Rusbridge: Electronic Libraries Program (eLib) 10/04/23 2

DNER/eLib overview: contents

Background Services, collections, the DNER eLib outline: Phases 1/2 & 3 Related activities MODELS Ramblings!

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JISC Strategy Summary: Excellent access to relevant content eLib is core development

• stimulus to new information service developments CEI provides core content

• enriched distributed national electronic resource for HE

Related skills development Cultural change... slow process

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eLib: background

“Follett Report” of Libraries Review committee, 1993• Buildings program (£30m?)• Special collections & archives (£50M?)• CURL OPAC (£0.5M)• Pilot Site Licence Initiative (£4M?)• Arts & Humanities Data Service (£1.5M)• eLib Programme (£15M)

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Value Greatly improved access Increased resource sharing Digital content Downward pressure on publishing prices Stimulating publishing change

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CEI Services Data Centres (BIDS, Data Archive, EDINA,

MIDAS) & Information service (NISS) UKOLN, BUBL Mirrors (HENSAs?, Visible Human) Subject-based Gateways? Digitisation (HEDS) Coordinated by the Monitoring & Advisory Unit

(MAU)

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CEI Collections Collections policy Data sets

• Bibliographic, numeric/statistical, full text, images, GIS OPACs

• COPAC, clumps? Electronic journals/full text: PSLI/NESLI, ILEJ etc? Image sets

• HELIX, MIDRIB, Fast track, JIDI

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The Distributed National Electronic Resource

Fuzzy concept ... but useful Unification? + Specialised?

• geographic distribution: single failure, network load• access points• metadata... how do I know what’s there?• authentication... who am I? ... once!• preservation implications

Tailoring... information landscapes• economy of attention

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The eLib Programme

A Programme of“Collaborative partnerships between libraries, academic staff, publishers and others, to promote large scale pilot and demonstrator projects focusing on the components of a future electronic library service, and to provide stimulus to its creation.”

» The Libraries Review

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eLib: programme outline

Funded by UK Funding Councils through the JISC • Projects short term, 1-3 years• Practical focus: achievable & off the shelf rather than blue

sky technology. What will help libraries, students and academics?

• Phases 1 & 2: ~60 projects; £15 million• Phase 3: ~20 projects; £5 million

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eLib: phases 1 & 2 Electronic publishing Access to resources Document delivery Training & studies Digitisation (text and

images) Customised publishing

(e-reserve)

Web publishing

ANR

Doc Del

Training andstudies

Digitisation

Customisedpublishing

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eLib: comparisons with DLi

eLib 60 projects, 3 years,

£15M Incremental change Library & publisher

orientation Low technology? Local service, user and

copyright issues

DLi 6 projects, 4 years, $24M ASQ-not! Computer science

orientation Theoretical, research,

high technology Low impact on academic

processes

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Evaluation comments

“The electronic library is attractive ... but is only likely to be realised as an institutionally pervasive concept. That is, library strategies cannot be divorced from the internal ... research, teaching and learning strategies of individual HEIs.”

» Policy Mapping Study

“We can also observe ... actual mobilisation ... effects of the programme - on researchers, publishers ... and individual disciplines and HEIs.”

» Formative evaluation report

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eLib: phase 3 Exemplars of “hybrid

libraries” Large scale resource

discovery (“clumps”)• Z39.50-based virtual

union catalogues Digital preservation Project extensions

towards services

Hybrid Libraries

Clumps

DigitalPreservation

Project Extensions

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eLib Phase 3 : Clumps

Stress test for Z39.50?• scaling issues• holdings, serials, IPR

3 regional virtual union catalogues (2 years)• linked to regional computer networks (MANs) recently

created as part of national SuperJANET network Music virtual union catalogue project (3 years)

• libraries, commercial agencies, publishers• multi-media: scores, performances, etc

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Higher Education Resources ON demand (HERON)

Teaching & learning focus (Dearing etc) Consolidate eLib OD/ER results 3 UK HE partners + Blackwell’s

• Stirling, Napier, South Bank Create “critical mass” resource bank of copyright

cleared, digitised electronic materials for UK HE Return £ to rights owners (including HE!)

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Phase 3++ Hybrid library and clumps projects

• about access to information in all forms, whenever, wherever

Integrate with...• document delivery• DNER, NNDP (archives), museums• preservation/conservation for local material

Ecosystem not jigsaw

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eLib Phase 3: Hybrid Library

Assumes print and electronic media will coexist Seeks to integrate delivery of both from local and

remote sources via electronic access 5 3-year projects varying in technical ambition

from almost none to sophisticated software tracking individuals

Varied scope: individual institution -> subject -> customer groups

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Agora UEA, UKOLN, CERLIM, FDI etc Open, standards-based platform for distributed,

mixed media information management• link to MODELS Information Architecture; information

landscapes• sequence of prototypes tested in partner institutions• innovative strategy for disseminating results & sharing

experiences• exploratory enabling infrastructure for the DNER

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BUILDER Institutional project (Birmingham) but with partners Both teaching and research

• seamlessly integrate access to a wide range of printed and electronic information sources,

• local and remote users and information, • integrating library with other academic activities,• through user-oriented information landscapes.

6 modules & 6 subject areas

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Headline LSE, LBS, Hertfordshire Integration of print and electronic

• beyond resource discovery to resource access Orientation to knowledge & preferences of user

• customisation of services• user-oriented design

Copyright issues addressed Tools and technology to be made widely available

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HYLIFE• Research possible new boundaries of libraries• More user need driven than technological; focus: Social,

organisational, educational, operational• Concerned with library management/strategy issues • 6 customer groups: student, research centre, health

practitioners, business, community college students, distance students - “the electronic subject librarian”?

• Overarching generic strand: identifies and feeds best practise into implementations, builds results of testing into final toolkit for interface design

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MALIBU 3 partners (KCL, So’ton, Oxford)

• Humanities-based• Oriented towards organisation & management issues• Management of change issues• Staff training and development; User documentation

and training• Integrated hybrid resource catalogue, resource

discovery tools and integrated delivery strategies• Not new tools: integrate existing & developing tools

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IndependentApplications

IndependentApplications/Unified presentation

Unified service/Flexible presentation

Multiplying resources

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USER/BROKER

BROKER/SUPPLIER

SEARCH

LOCATE

REQUEST

DELIVER

HELPERS

AUTHENTI CATION

SECURITY PAYMENT

Generic Architecture - Helper Components

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Library Broker

EndUser

Admin User

External Z39.50 Client

Z39.50 Searches

Service Example (Z39.50 Discovery Only)

Distributed Z39.50 Searches

HTTP

Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Target 5 ...

SQL

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ClumpGateway 1

ClumpGateway 1

Target B

Target A

Target C

NetworkNetwork

ClumpGateway 2

ClumpGateway 2

ClumpGateway 3

ClumpGateway 3

Gateway 2User CommunityGateway 2User Community

Gateway 3User CommunityGateway 3User Community

Target D Target E

Target F

Target G

Gateway 1User Community

Extensibility - e.g. Clump Network

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Related activities

Copyright-related: JISC/PA JTAP technology programme

• includes authentication & authorisation ?Other HEFC activities?

• TLTP, TLTSN, CTI, Anderson, LTDI, Talisman?

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Dissemination Vital to make programmes worth while Needs specific planning; first to be dropped! Telling

• scholarly & popular articles, conferences, web, email, Helping

• assisted & supported take-up & implementation• workshops, roadshows, summer schools

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In a digital world, are libraries...

irrelevant?• no, but... “Don’t do libraries!”

necessary? vital?• yes: print legacy, electronic info support, service & IPR

sufficient?• no: must recognise ‘external’ non-library resources

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In a digital world, are libraries...

warm, social, supportive study & research environments, giving access to the world’s knowledge?• librarians self image?

cold, authoritative, excessively complex, ritualised, exclusive, devoted to the past?• need for self-challenge?

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Comments from ADL Advances in Digital Libraries conference attendees

remarks:• “Libraries will increasingly hold data as well as documents;

substantial new challenges” (NLM)• “This is now about leadership... the technology exists, drive

this thing through” (Palumbo)• “Solutions will unfold organically over many years” (Lucier)• “We’re beginning to move away from digital libraries to

knowledge management” (Freeston)

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“Gateways to Knowledge” ed Dowler 1997

“...librarians have too often bolted new technology, programs and services onto existing library functions”

“The gateway, like Janus, looks to the documentary sources of the past, even as it looks in the direction of electronic sources ... in the future” Dowler

“The library I never go to is already one of the most important places in my life” Appiah

“The gateway library is ... a process that delivers services to the user” Rockwell

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“Gateways to Knowledge” ed Dowler 1997 (cont)

“The gateway library is not a place ... [it] is as distributed and decentralized as campus computing has become” ibid

“Investments in people will be critical to success” ibid “Libraries can still make themselves irrelevant to the new

information age, by repelling all invaders from IT, by allowing job protection strategies to dominate decision making, or by failing to provide librarians with opportunities for appropriate training and re-training” ibid

“Every new database ... seems to generate more demand for instructional support” Dowler

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Service in Digital Libraries? “[There is] an emphasis on technology & information

resources, and a very noticeable lack of discussion of the service aspects of the digital library” Sloan, UIUC

“... high tech and high touch” Dwyer, Cal State Chico “Social interaction helpful in

• selecting information• seeking informal information• highly specific, contextual information• socialising function” Ackerman via Sloan

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eLib: more information

eLib phase 3 information pack... June? Web pages maintained by UKOLN

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/elib/ Mailbase lists including

[email protected]@mailbase.ac.uk