The Digital Library or, the library in the age of technology

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The Digital Libraryor, the library in the age
of technology

• Lois Brooks Tom Cramer
• June 15, 2005

Stanford University Libraries Academic
Information Resources
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The Org Chart (abridged)
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CourseWork and the Sakai Project
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Classes in the physical world

• some standard models that work well
• different configurations for different needs
• technology rich displays, communication tools
• flexible, configurable for collaboration

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Homework in the physical world
Shared display for group work by public laptop
users Cross-platform screen-sharing
file-sharing application AComp Computer
Science Dept research project
Meyer TeamSpace
teamspace.stanford.edu
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Why CourseWork?

• interesting uses for teaching
• security
• interoperability
• consistency
• less faculty time spent on mundane tech tasks
• risk management

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Innovative Teaching
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CourseWork Courses
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CW spring qtr. stats
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CourseWork Next Gen Buy, Build or Adopt?

• We need control
• We want to innovate
• But development is expensive
• And technology changes quickly

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November 2003 The University of Michigan,
Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal
Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative
(OKI) are joining forces to integrate and
synchronize their considerable educational
software into a pre-integrated collection of open
source tools.
Jan. 2004 The Sakai Project receives a 2.4M
grant from the Mellon Foundation
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Why Sakai?all the simple reasons

• Course management is core infrastructure
• Economic advantages
• Higher ed values open, sharing, building the
  commons core support for collaboration
  technology
• Ability to rapidly innovate move our tools
  within/among HE institutions rapidly
• Interoperability
• Maintain institutional capacity, independence

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Where are we now?
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Pilot begins
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The Digital Library
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The Stanford Libraries

• Support for the enterprise of research and
  teaching, from entering frosh through undergrad
  career, grad school, researchers, faculty
• always rich resources increasingly digital in
  addition to traditional

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A library the quality of Stanford
8 Million number of works in the Stanford
Libraries
50,000 number of journals to which we subscribe
280,000 cartographic resources (maps, images,
etc.)
59 million manuscript pages
120 number of countries from which we acquire
400 number of languages represented
110,000 new volumes acquired each year
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Going digital

• Raw material of scholarship
• Output of scholarship
• More and more content is born digital
• More and more tools for using digital content

Text (books, papers), images, audio, video,
electronic journal articles, web pages, data
sets, software, course objects Sakai content
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Born digital

• Databases
• Computer files
• Applications

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Publishing
highwire.stanford.edu
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Why digitize? Enhanced access!

• Access to rare materials
• Access to things that arent at Stanford
• Simultaneous access
• Searchability, federation
• New kinds of scholarship
• Preservation

http//library.stanford.edu/depts/dlp/bookscanning
/
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In-house digitization

• Books, photos, manuscripts, audio
• Enhancement to make files searchable, playable on
  computers

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A few samples

• www.ebrary.com/stanford/browse2/indexbh.html
• site.ebrary.com/lib/stanfordimmigrationdillingham/
  
• gatt.stanford.edu/page/home
• library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/image.html

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The Google project

• A good match we have books, they have resources
• We keep the books and get all the digital files
• print.google.com
• http//print.google.com

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Now that we have this stuff, we need to keep
it. Stanford Digital Repository
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Digital preservation why?

• Mission of the Libraries
• Todays challenge build the digital stacks
• 500 years of analog preservation experience,
  5 years of digital preservation experience
• Systems and content are ephemeral
• The Internet as a case study
• http//web.archive.org/web/

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Preservation the challenge

• Entropy (bit rot)
• Obsolescence (think wax cylinders, betamax,
  wordstar)
• System life cycles
• 3-7 years for hardware
• 5-10 years for operating systems, software
• Goal preservation for centuries

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Digital access finding all this stuff

• islands of content
• Federated search
• Grokker.stanford.edu
• Qualified search
• Scholar.google.com

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