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Digital library building blocks: Empowering libraries in an increasingly competitive online
information space
Daniel Greenstein and Peter Brantley
California Digital Library
Presentation to CNI, April 5, 2005
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Lowering the costs involved in building high-quality trusted collections…
with a suite of web-accessible services that libraries and other information organizations can use to
• create and gather collection content that their users require
• organize and present that content in ways and with tools that meet their users’ needs
• manage the content persistently over the longer term
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Encouraging with guidelines tools, and support services, the production of persistent
and interoperable digital content
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Automating incorporation of that content into access services and digital persistent
repositories
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Enabling customization and interactivity with authoring, editing, exhibit-building, and export
tools
To be supplied…
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Tools for persistently managing digital information
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Some use cases for digital library building blocks
• A public library [historical society/museum/academic department] wants to digitally reformat selected materials from its special collections, publishing them to the web via a local service and integrating them into one or more larger collections
• A government agency [academic institution/university or society publisher or press] wants to enable staff [faculty/authors] to “publish” papers, monographs, journals, etc to the web in an orderly manner
• A research organization [library/archive/historical society] wants selectively to capture, organize, and manage selected web-based materials that are critical to the organization/users it serves
• A curriculum development specialist [museum curator/academic publisher] wants to wrap a variety of primary sources, all of them available in digital form, in a narrative web, presenting them to end users as learning materials [exhibits/textbooks] with a variety of interactive features
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CDL Common Framework
• The CDL Common Framework -
• Is a philosophy governing software development
• … a conceptual design for digital library services
• … a specific technical architecture
• … a set of developed services
• … growing number of applications
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CF Philosophy
• Composite, modular, lightweight are good words
• Design and implement quickly
• Reduce need for app-specific kludges
• Make replacement and enhancement easy
• Encourage staff training, development
• Perfection is not allowed
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CF Conceptual Design
• Elemental services conceptualization– E.g.: “search”, “AuthZ”, “admin”, “harvest”
• Applications independent of services
• Design to enable build, rebuild apps
• New app « reuse existing services (or minor mods)
• Services change, apps version
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CF Technical Architecture
• Common development environment
• Web services based (XML, Java)
• Preserve generic design in specification
• Cleanly separate API (interface) layer
• Services agnostic on system vs. user interaction
• Externalize data mods to XSLT when possible
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CF Services
• CDL has defined and prioritized services
• Preservation repository first CF application
• Services such as ingest, search, view, admin built
• Design review with campuses inits change reqs
• CF permits very rapid change/build cycles
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CF Applications
• Applications are released products
• Comprised of packaged (or suites of) services
• Preservation repository (DPR)
• eXtended Browse Framework (XBF)
• Product evolution yields new services