Integrating Libraries and Electronic Publishing

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Integrating Libraries and Electronic Publishing

• The DART Project at Columbia University
• David Millman and Kate Wittenberg

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Educational Mission

• To help undergraduate students gain insight into
  the way in which anthropologists conduct research
  and draw conclusions
• Improve information literacy of undergraduate
  anthropology students through use of structured
  yet unfiltered digital resources

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E-Publishing Mission

• To develop a digital library infrastructure that
  will store digital resources so that they can be
  used in flexible ways
• To catalogue digital assets embedded within
  complex learning tools so that they can be used
  for broader research and/or teaching goals

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Case 1The Ethnographic Imagination

• The teaching module contains a digitized
  selection of authors field notes and published
  book
• Students read both sets of materials and write
  about the process of transforming the notes into
  an ethnography
• Increasing understanding of how knowledge is
  created from data

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Case 2 Intro to South Asian Culture

• Online syllabus that links to catalogued digital
  assets (primary texts, maps, photos, video)
• Teacher builds class assignments around these
  assets (response to questions, essays on
  readings, and full research paper)
• Increasing levels of interaction with library
  materials throughout the semester

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Digital Teaching Tools and Research Library
Resources

• Focus on the relationship between the closed
  world of the classroom and teaching tools, and
  the open world of the Web
• Can students explore freely the vast array of
  research tools available through the Web, while
  still having an appropriate level of guidance
  concerning how to select and evaluate the sources
  that they find?

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Unlimited Information as Benefit or Obstacle to
Learning

• How do we make information meaningful to users
  with diverse skills and needs?
• Future work will explore how to find the right
  balance between directed and unfiltered
  presentation of digital teaching and research
  materials in electronic publications

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Technology

• Accommodate different styles for teaching
• fall 04 (South Asian History Culture) web
  browser focus (syllabus navigation)
• spring 05 (Ethnographic Imagination) digital
  resource focus (primary source navigation)
• fall 05 (planning) considering mobile device in
  DL discovery retrieval
• Web services import/export
• Access management
• Metadata versions revisited

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Syllabus web navigation
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User Experience
course web site
catalog views
remote holdings
local holdings
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Catalog View
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Primary Source Navigation
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Link idiom in browser
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Navigation tool in browser
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Primary source reference db
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Acquisition
Digital South Asia Library DSAL _at_ U Chicago
Publishers Archives
DART faculty
Cambridge Univ Library institutional repository
mapping
(proposed) Tibetan-Himalayan DL thdl _at_ U of
Virginia
local workflow
DSpace
OAI
Fedora
DART catalog
DART content
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Access
METS
Sakai/OKI
MPEG21/DID
browser html
OAI
JSR170
IMS/CP
library repository environments
Z39.50
collaborative learning environments
openURL
DART catalog
DART content
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Access Management

• bi-lateral Shibboleth federation with LSE
• technology ok, though evolving
• federation scalability challenges
• process documentation
• policy
• legal

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Mobile

• front-end assumptions
• back-end assumptions

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Versions

• Lots of metadata moving around
• Identifiers back in the forefront?
• Evolution of OAI-PMH ?

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Simple OAI record
lt!--A record harvested from Cambridge,
representing an object in the --gt lt!--Cambridge
repository, as RECEIVED by DART--gt ltrecordgt
ltheadergt ltidentifiergtoaidspace.cam.ac.uk18
10_449lt/identifiergt ltdatestampgt2004-09-20T14
5013Zlt/datestampgt ltsetSpecgtcamlt/setSpecgt
ltsetSpecgtcamaalt/setSpecgt lt/headergt
ltmetadatagt ltoai_dcdc ...gt
ltidentifiergthttps//www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/18
10/449?modefulllt/identifiergt
lttitlegtInterview of Professor Haimendorf by Alan
Macfarlanelt/titlegt ltdescriptiongtA long
interview of the many fieldwork
...lt/descriptiongt ltcoveragegtNepallt/covera
gegt lt/oai_dcdcgt lt/metadatagt ltaboutgt
ltoai_dcdc ...gt ltdcpublishergtDSpace
at Cambridgelt/dcpublishergt
ltdcrightsgtNo rights to the use of these metadata
are granted except by prior
agreement.lt/dcrightsgt lt/oai_dcdcgt
lt/aboutgt lt/recordgt
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Exposure via OAI provenance
lt!Record 2 a record harvested from Chicago,
representing an object in the --gt lt!--DSAL
library, as EXPOSED by DART--gt ltrecordgt
ltheadergt ltidentifiergtoailib.uchicago.edu
ta013lt/identifiergt ltdatestampgt2004-10-08T1
85013Zlt/datestampgt ltsetSpecgtdsallt/setSpe
cgt ltsetSpecgtdsalhensleylt/setSpecgt
lt/headergt ltmetadatagt ltoai_dcdcgt
ltidentifiergthttp//pi.lib.uchicago.edu/
1001/org/dsal/ima...lt/identifiergt
lttitlegtGate into Taj groundslt/titlegt
... lt/oai_dcdcgt lt/metadatagt
ltaboutgt ltoai_dcdcgt
ltdcpublishergtThe University of Chicago
Librarylt/dcpublishergt ltdcrightsgtNo
rights to the use of these...lt/dcrightsgt
lt/oai_dcdcgt ltprovenancegt
ltoriginDescription harvestDate"2004-10-08T14100
2Z altered"false"gt
ltbaseURLgthttp//dsal.uchicago.edu/lt/baseURLgt
ltidentifiergtoailib.uchicago.eduta013lt
/identifiergt ltdatestampgt2004-10-01
lt/datestampgt ltmetadataNamespacegt
OAI... lt/metadataNamespacegt
lt/originDescriptiongt lt/provenancegt
lt/aboutgt lt/recordgt
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Implicit Derivative
lt!--Record 3a, metadataPrefix oai_dc --gt lt!--A
record representing an object in the DART library
that --gt lt!--is a derivation of the object
represented in Record 2, exposed --gt lt!--with
Dublin Core metadata--gt ltrecordgt ltheadergt
ltidentifiergtoaidart.columbia.edudart0023lt/id
entifiergt ltdatestampgt2004-10-08T185013Zlt
/datestampgt ltsetSpecgtdsallt/setSpecgt
ltsetSpecgtdsalhensleylt/setSpecgt lt/headergt
ltmetadatagt ltoai_dcdcgt
ltidentifiergthttps//dart.columbia.edu/main/DART-00
23.htmllt/identifiergt
lttitlegtPhotograph of Gate Into Taj
Groundslt/titlegt lttypegtimagelt/typegt
ltcreatorgtHensley, Glenn S.lt/creatorgt
... lt/oai_dcdcgt
lt/metadatagt lt/recordgt
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Explicit Derivative
lt!--Record 3b, metadataPrefix dart_xdc
--gt lt!--A record representing an object in the
DART digital library that is a derivation of
the object represented in Record 2, exposed with
DART metadata (an extension of dublin core
that includes work-derivation information--gt ltreco
rdgt ltheadergt ltidentifiergtoaidart.colu
mbia.edudart0023lt/identifiergt ... lt/headergt
ltmetadatagt ltdart_xdc
xmlnsdart_xdc...gt
ltidentifiergthttps//dart.columbia.edu/main/DART-00
23.htmllt/identifiergt
lttitlegtPhotograph of Gate Into Taj
Groundslt/titlegt ... ltderivedFromgt
ltdescriptiongtThis image was
resized to 700 by 800 pixels,
and cropped around a sketch at the corner of a
notebook...lt/descriptiongt
ltsourceObjectgt
ltidentifiergthttp//pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/
org/dsal/images/hensley/ta013lt/i
dentifiergt ltdatestampgt2004-10-
07T060504Zlt/datestampgt
lt/sourceObjectgt lt/derivedFromgt
lt/dart_xdcgt lt/metadatagt lt/recordgt
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Next Steps

• Export to local course management system (pilot
  Sakai-based)
• Experiment with non-html tools for content
  viewing / navigation
• Wider discussion of versioning issues

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