NELLI, The Finnish National Electronic Library Interface

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NELLI, The Finnish National Electronic Library
Interface

• Ari Rouvari
• 9. - 11.6.2004
• ELAG 2004
• Trondheim

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TOPICS

• Visions and aims
• Implementing situation in Finland
• Consortia model
• Authentication / Authorization
• User interface fetishism
• The service core, The Triangle
• An example of the use of Triangle

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The Value Chain of Digital Library Services
Acquiring of digital resources FinELib
Digitisation of cultural heritage Mikkeli
Archiving of digital resources
User interface
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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
Z39.50
ZING
library system
Document archive
OpenURL
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CUSTOMERS VISIONS

• CUSTOMERS Entire Finland
• 20 university libraries (2004)
• 30 polytechnics (2005)
• (450) public libraries (2005) 20 regional
  libraries
• research lib. (later)

• VISIONS AIMS
• Easy-to-use
• One-stop-shop
• Single sign on
• One search, all services
• Centralized maintaining management
• One server for the entire nation
• Local user interfaces
• tailoring
• Local services
• Collaborative development of services

Keep it simple stupid!
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USER INTERFACE FETISHISM

• Nelli-portal
• Local interfaces
• Regional interfaces
• National interfaces

• Library system
• OPACs
• Document archive

More is better?
Customer oriented way
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Nelli organization

• Nelli staff (Ari Henri)
• The Portal team (9)
• local project managers (20)
• local trainers (10)

• 14 000 ejournals
• 175 databases
• OPACs

The Triangle team
document archive
LS-team
Portal team
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Nelli-portal in consortia environment

• Centralized tasks
• co-ordinating the project
• implementing / maintaining
• updating SFX/Metalib
• SFX activiting instructions
• configuration (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

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Authentication authorization

• 1. LDAP
• 2. Remote authentication hook
• CGI-program
• Shibboleth
• esay-to-use
• Secure
• Standard base

• IP address ranges
• Shibboleth ?

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Shibboleth authentication
Home campus
Nelli-portal
2. Auth. starts
1. select home campus
Shibboleth origin site
Shibboleth target site proxy
3. Auth. OK
login password
4. Attribute request
remote authenticationCGI-hook
5. Response attr email address
LDAP directory
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Shibboleth authorization (vision)
target dbs
Metaserach
Nelli-portal
Home campus
Attribute Authority
Attribute query
SFX-target ejournal database
SFX Resolver
Handle service
Attribute resonse / pass on attributes
Authentication
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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
Z39.50
ZING
library system
Document archive
OpenURL
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one scenario digital music collection (legal
deposit copies)
Nelli-portal
Search interface
OpenUrl
Z39.50
SFX-resolver
digital archive
access control
records
digital objects special metadata restrict
access by collections
Linnea-library system
Target database
OpenUrl
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THE RESOURCE MAP OF FINNISH ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

• Australian Libraries Gateway
• Scottish Collections Network, SCONE

Describe DCCD application Evaluate Conspectus
method
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CONCLUSION

• Creative innovative staff

• Open Access
• Librarians should
• support free Information

Keep it simple stupid!
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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

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Strenghts Weaknesses

• Applications/softwares
• ExLibris help desk
• Management tools
• SFX, its magic
• SFX KDB
• Exlibris attidute

• - multi-language
• - Consortia model
• - Usability/ Quick search
• - Ejournal tool
• - Metalib statistics