New Roles in Digital Libraries...

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New Roles in Digital Libraries...
José Borbinha ltjose.borbinha_at_bn.ptgt National
Library of Portugal Direction of Services for
Innovation and Development
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• Digital Libraries???
• Issues and cases in digital libraries
• the main cases
• New content genres, metadata, ...
• about interoperability
• Projects LEAF and TEL...
• about actors
• The DELOS/NSF Working Group...
• ...one global vision, BND...
• The National Digital Library (Portugal)

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An historical perspective
Libraries and technology among the times...
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A Computer Sciences perspective

• ACM Computing Classification System (January
  1998)
• ...
• H. Information Systems
• ...
• H.3 Information Storage and Retrieval
• ...
• H.3.7 Digital Libraries
• Collection
• Dissemination
• Standards
• System issues
• User issues

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A perspective of a traditional library
Digital Library
Publication
Licensing
Acquisition
Registration
Dissemination
Search
Preservation
Access
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Use Cases (from the model)...

• Publication
• Availability of a manifestation of a work
  (resource)...
• Licensing
• Rules for the usage of an item of a resource...
• Acquisition
• Ownership of a resource...
• Registration
• Create metadata to describe the resource...
• Dissemination
• Making aware the existence of a resource...
• Search
• Searching of information about a work (resource
  discovery).
• Access
• Visualization of a resource, duplication, ...
• Preservation
• To keep the resource in good shape for access...

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Another view of the cases...
Acquisition
Delivery by the publisher
Capture by the library
Harvesting by the library
Verification
Medium integrity
Content integrity
Logical integrity
Authentication
Registration
Metadata
Bibliographic and content description
Installation and de-installation
Preservation
Access
Intellectual preservation
Preservation
Logical preservation
Format conversion
Emulation
Physical preservation
Medium refreshing
Medium migration
Access
Local access
Conditions of use
Remote access
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Emerging issues...

• Genres (what?)
• Information resources media, formats, type,
  characteristics (on-line/off-line, dynamic
  resources, interactive resources, ...)
• Actors (who?)
• Need to review concepts and roles (editor,
  creator, contributor, translator, illustrator,
  distributor, owner, user, librarian, host,
  mediator, ...)
• Identifiers (where?)
• Names, uniform names and identifiers, contextual
  names and identifiers, persistency, ...
• Metadata (how?)
• Bibliographic description, administration,
  structural description, ..., creation versus
  reutilization, ...

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Classes of metadata
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Multiple perspectives for the "metadata" problem
in the Digital Library...

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Interoperability in a networked world...

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LEAF

• Linking and Exploring Authority Files
• Funded by the European Commission under the 5th
  framework
• IST programme
• Started March 2001
• End February 2004
• http//www.leaf-eu.org

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• The partners
• Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon
• Biblioteca de Universidad Complutense, Madrid
• British Library, London
• Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach
• Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für
  Österreichische Philosophie, Graz
• Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, Weimar
• Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine,
  Paris
• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
• University of Bergen, Bergen
• Swiss National Library, Bern
• National and University Library, Ljubljana,
• Riksarkivet, Stockholm

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Annotation Manager
User Interface
CNAF Common Name Authority File
Linking Manager
Update Manager
Local Authority Data
Local OPACs
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• Feasibility study concerning (Feb. 2001 July
  2003)
• Interoperability across Europes national
  libraries
• Combining the resources of Europes national
  libraries
• Groundwork to establish pan-European services

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• Partners
• European national libraries of United Kingdom,
  Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal,
  Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Conference of European
  National Librarians (CENL), Istituto Centrale per
  il Catalogo Unico, Italy (ICCU-Italy)
• Combining the resources of Europes national
  libraries
• Groundwork to establish pan-European services

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Work packages

• WP 1 Publisher relations
• WP 2 Business plans and models
• WP 3 Metadata development
• WP 4 Interoperability testbeds
• WP 5 Dissemination and use
• WP 6 Management

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• DELOS/NSF Working Group
• Reference Models forDigital Libraries
• Actors and Roles

http//www.delos-nsf.actorswg.cdlib.org/
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WG Members

• NSF (USA)
• John Kunze, University of California, USA (NSF
  coordinator)
• Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress, USA
  (Libraries)
• Becky Dean, OCLC, USA (Libraries services)
• Angela Spinazze, USA (Museums)
• Howard Besser, University of California, USA
  (Multimedia and digital art production)
• DCMI - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Warwick Cathro, National Library of Australia

• DELOS (Europe)
• José Borbinha, National Library of Portugal
  (DELOS coordinator)
• Michel Mabe, Elsevier Science, UK (Publishing
  industry)
• Peter Mutschke, Social Science Information
  Centre, Germany (Software agents, Information
  Retrieval)
• Hans-Jörg Lieder, Berlin State Library, Germany
  (LEAF project)

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Purpose of Actors Working Group

• to develop a reference model describing the
  different classes of actors related to the
  problem of the Digital Library, including their
  roles and implications.
• - traditional entities (authors, editors,
  publishers)
• non-traditional (users, catalogers, ref.
  librarians)
• emerging (software agents, mediators, special
  rights holders)

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Actors in Digital Libraries???

• ... are persons, organizations, and automata that
  play roles in the production, dissemination,
  management and use of digital information.

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Results

• White paper
• Definition and introduction to the problem.
• Description and analysis of the requirements.
• Proposal to the community for a reference model.
• Proposals for an international agenda for further
  technical and collaborative developments.

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Generic framework (1/2)
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Generic framework (2/2)
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HTTP//BND.BN.PTThe National Digital Library
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• Publication (Collection building)
• External deposit (digitized and digital born
  contents)
• Local edition (creation of our own resources...)
• Digitization (from our own digitization
  program...)
• Registration and storage
• Structural metadata (XML, METS...)
• Identifier management (URN/PURL)
• Cataloguing (UNIMARC, ...)
• Preservation
• Short-medium term management
• Long-term physical and logical preservation
• Access (who, how, when, why, ...)
• Local access versus remote access (URN/PURL
  resolution)
• On-line versus off-line
• Dissemination and Resource Discovery
• Traditional interfaces and services
• OPACs (PORBASE and specialized services)
• Thematic indexes
• New interfaces and services