Debbie Campbell

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Engaging national information infrastructure
with learning environments

• Debbie Campbell
• Director, Coordination Support Branch
• National Library of Australia

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using the past to find the future

• Five challenges for libraries to address
• critical mass
• aggregation
• local collection development
• integration
• archives
• Five areas to take action in (UKOLN)
• distributed discovery location and request
• development of metadata
• coordination of national resource discovery
• integrated access to resources across domains
• organisation of distributed library resources

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print is not forgotten

• ? by building on the
• strengths of existing
• systems
• ? by providing
• integrated access to
• print and electronic
• sources of
• information through
• existing systems
• ? by providing easy
• to use access
• pathways for the
• end-user

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Australian library engagement

• in the national learning environment
• the Australian Academic Research Library Network
  (AARLIN),
• the Collaborative Online Learning and Information
  Services (COLIS) Consortium,
• a new resource discovery service,
• and in associated projects
• the Western Australian Libraries Authentication
  Project (WALAP),
• the Schools Online Content Curriculum Initiative
  (SOCCI)

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talking the same talk
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walking the same walk

• Early findings from the pilot phase
• Z39.50, distributed searching
• 130 commercial databases chosen, 40 implemented
• UNIX skills required by university staff,
  collaboration facilitated this
• Reactions from academics
• not interested in Web sites selected by libraries
  or described in catalogues
• keen on multi-database searches, e-journals
• assumed could access resources not
  held/subscribed to by the university

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beware the portal label
"I think we're more interested in not going it
alone." The results were not blazingly fast, a
fact that annoyed some students .. plans to
become more involved in academic collaborations
such as the university-sponsored Open Knowledge
Initiative..
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more infrastructural initiative

• LIBRARIES
• ? ICT BANDWIDTH
• ? TECHNICAL STANDARDS
• Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Australian Research Council ? CSIRO
• Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee
• Council of Australian University IT Directors
• Council of Australian University Librarians
• Department of Education, Science and Training
• National Library of Australia ?
  IMS Australia

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dancing to the same tune

• identify and map interoperability issues for
  learning space applications
• identify appropriate standards for
  interoperability
• provide input to IMS and other standards bodies
  to fill interoperability gaps
• provide input into the OKI framework

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disclosing resources

• in the proposed pilot
• EdNA Online ? South Seas project
• Australian Digital Theses Program
• Australian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL)
• Australian National Universitys e-print archive
• Australian Museums Online (AMOL)
• the U.K.s Resource Discovery Network
• (Australian resources only)
• the National Bibliographic Database
• PANDORA, maps, manuscripts
• Australian Journals Online (with newspapers)
• online exhibitions

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shining a light

• the pilot resource discovery service is
• making free, significant resources more visible
  in the public
• domain
• enhancing awareness and use of the intellectual
  output of
• a nation by disclosing it to a broad
  community, to
• facilitate learning, teaching and research
• engendering an interest in underutilised
  resources
• flagging resources at risk
• identifying and supporting service providers of
  the future

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Carl Lagoze, April 2002
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a new resource discovery service
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An Information Architecture
metadata
assets
learning objects
objects

• select

• select

• Content layers
• IMS repository
• AARLIN

• Content layers
• digital Australiana
• Google

• Middleware
• authenticate
• resolve

• Middleware
• manage digital rights
• B2C

• Broker Layer
• license
• centralise

• Broker Layer
• federate
• link
• query

• Presentation Layer
• present
• discover
• locate
• use

RDS ?
COLIS ?
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is it all about libraries ?

• libraries often do not present a clear vision
  to those
• responsible for library funding
• the public does not see the library as part of
  the service they
• receive, but those responsible for funding
  need to be aware of
• the librarys role
• libraries need to find a way to be more closely
  aligned with
• political and economic agendas
• it is difficult for government agencies to get
  approval for plans
• which do not show a tangible economic benefit
• it is essential that the library sector present
  a single voice to get
• funding for significant infrastructure
  development
• there is value in trying to move the focus from
  strictly
• economic issues, although social and cultural
  value is not
• necessarily measurable in dollar terms

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are we there yet ?
incremental change is no longer enough..
transformational change is needed to secure
sustainability..
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Resources used in this presentation

• Beyond the Beginning The Global Digital Library
• www.anu.edu.au/caul/mirror/global/content/
• MODELS Overview
• www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/overview.html
• National Library of Australia Electronic
  Information
• Resources Strategies and Action Plan 2001-2002
• www.nla.gov.au/policy/electronic/resourcesplan.htm
  l
• Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
  Benchmarking Study
• www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/nrswg/benchmarking.html
  
• Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
• www.dest.gov.au/highered/research/sys_report2001.h
  tm

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Resources used in this presentation

• AARLIN, Australian Academic Research Library
• Network, www.latrobe.edu.au/arlin/
• COLIS, Collaborative Online Learning and
  Information
• Services, www.colis.mq.edu.au/
• National Library resource discovery service
• www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/resdisc.html
• WALAP, Western Australian Libraries
  Authentication
• Project
• www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/40Green.pdf
• U. of Michigan Cancels a Closely Watched Portal
• Project //chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041101t.h
  tm

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Resources used in this presentation

• ARL Scholars Portal Working Group Final Report,
  21 May 02
• www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/final.html
• SOCCI, Schools Online Content Curriculum
  Initiative
• Socci.edna.edu.au
• Digital Rights Management in the Higher Education
  
• Sector
• www.dest.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip02_2/eip02_2.p
  df
• MIT Open CourseWare
• web.mit.edu/ocw/
• Customised Learning Experiences Online
• www.lsal.cmu.edu/lsal/expertise/projects/cleo/

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Resources used in this presentation

• Libraries and E-Learning Organisational and
  Technical
• Interoperability
• www.colis.mq.edu.au/news_archives/lib_e_learning.p
  df
• South Seas Project
• www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/southseas/
• Museums and the Web 2002 OAI Introduction,
  History,
• Overview, Carl Lagoze, April 2002
• www.cimi.org/wg/oai/MW_2002_OAI_Lagoze.ppt
• Now That Weve Found the Hidden Web, What Can
  We
• Do With It ?
• www.archimuse.com/mw2002/papers/cole/cole.html
• The ASSIST Graphical User Interface
  asc.harvard.edu/
• udocs/news_01/articles/eric.html

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Resources used in this presentation

• The Intellectual Foundation of Information
  Organisation
• Elaine Svenonius, 2000, Massachusetts Institute
  of Technology
• ISBN 0-262-19433-3
• Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building
  Good Digital
• Collections /firstmonday.org/issues/issue7
  _5/cole/
• JISC Information Environment Architecture
• www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/dner/arch/
• Peak Bodies Forum, 15 February 2002
• www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/peakbod/min150
  202.html
• Australian Library and Information Associaton
  conference 2002
• www.alia.org.au/conferences/alia2002/papers.html

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