International Cooperation in Digital Libraries CoLIS 3 - 25 May 1999 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: International Cooperation in Digital Libraries CoLIS 3 - 25 May 1999


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International CooperationinDigital Libraries
CoLIS 3 - 25 May 1999

• Edward A. Fox
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• fox_at_vt.edu

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DLs Why of Global Interest?

• National projects can preserve antiquities and
  heritage cultural, historical, linguistic,
  scholarly
• Knowledge and information are essential to
  economic and technological growth, education
• DL - a domain for international collaboration
• wherein all can contribute and benefit
• which leverages investment in networking
• which provides useful content on Internet WWW
• which will tie nations and peoples together more
  strongly and through deeper understanding

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SMETE Library(from www.dlib.org)

• Context Global movement toward Digital Libraries
  (see April 1998 CACM)
• NSF effort Science, Mathematics, Engineering,
  and Technology Education Digital Library
  (focussed on undergraduates)
• 3 workshops, yearly increasing funds / new calls
• ex., www.cstc.org - CS Teaching Center
• SMETE Library likely to operate as distributed
  federation, with separate parts for each key
  discipline, and to lead to a global effort

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A Digital Library Case Study

• Domain graduate education, research
• GenreETDselectronic theses dissertations
• Submission http//etd.vt.edu
• Collection http//www.theses.org

• Project
• Networked Digital
• Library of Theses
• Dissertations
• (NDLTD) http//
• www.ndltd.org

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US University Members

• Air University (Alabama)
• Cal Tech
• Clemson University
• College of William Mary
• Concordia University (Illinois)
• East Tenn. State University
• Florida Institute of Tech.
• Florida International University
• Michigan Tech
• Naval Postgraduate School (CA)
• North Carolina State U.
• Penn. State University
• Rochester Institute of Tech.
• U. of Florida
• U. of Georgia
• University of Hawaii, Manoa

• U. of Iowa
• U. of Maine
• U. of Oklahoma
• U. of South Florida
• U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
• U. of Tennessee, Memphis
• U. of Texas at Austin
• U. of Virginia
• U. Wisconsin - Madison
• Vanderbilt U.
• Virginia Tech - required since 1/97
• West Virginia U. - required beginning fall 1998
• Worcester Polytechnic Inst.

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Australian Project Members

• U. New South Wales (lead institution)
• U. of Melbourne
• U. of Queensland
• U. of Sydney
• Australian National University
• Curtin U. of Technology
• Griffith U.

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German Project Members

• Humboldt University (lead institution)
• 3 other universities
• 5 learned societies
• 1 computing center
• 2 major libraries

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Other International Members

• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Chungnam National U., Dept of CS (S. Korea)
• City University, London (UK)
• Darmstadt U. of Tech. (Germany)
• Gyeongsang National U. (Korea)
• India Institute of Technology, Bombay (India)
• Nanyang Technological U. (Singapore, part)
• National U. of Singapore (Singapore, part)
• National Library of Portugal
• Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
• Rhodes U. (South Africa)
• St. Petersburg St. Tech.U (Russia)
• Univ. de las Américas Puebla (Mexico)
• U. Laval U. of Guelph U. Waterloo Wilfrid
  Laurier U. (Canada)

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Key Ideas
Networked infrastructure
University collaboration
Scalability
Workflow, automation
Education is the rationale
Authors must submit
Maximal access
Standards
PDF, SGML, MM
MARC, DC, URNs
Federated search
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User Search Support(multilingual, XML)
Note All groups shown are connected with NDLTD.
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What are we doing?

• Aiding universities to enhance grad educ.,
  publishing and IPR efforts
• Helping improve the availability and content of
  theses and dissertations
• Educating ALL future scholars so they can publish
  electronically and effectively use digital
  libraries (i.e., are Information Literate and can
  be more expressive) - gt100,000 per year

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Why might you want to be involved?
(www.ndltd.org/join)

• To improve graduate education / better prepare
  your students
• To unlock university information
• To save money for students and for the university
  / improve workflow
• To build an important digital library supported
  by SURA, US Dept. Ed., UNESCO, Adobe, IBM, OCLC,
  ...

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Questions from Asian DL Workshop, Hong Kong 98

• Is there global understanding of DL?
• Will people take action beyond talking about
  intl collaboration?
• What frameworks for intl collaboration will be
  established?
• Will there be support from govt, industry, and
  academia?

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International Digital Libraries Association - Rob
Akscyn (rma_at_ks.com)

• 1st Summit on International Cooperation on
  Digital Libraries, 27-28 June 1998, Pittsburgh,
  PA Held immediately following Digital
  Libraries '98
• 2nd Summit , 14 Aug. 1999, Berkeley, CA
  following ACM DL 99 - accessible from
  http//fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99

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1st Summit - Issues - 1of 5

• 1. Is international cooperation on digital
  libraries necessary, and why?
• 2. What are the truly important benefits of
  digital libraries and how might they be realized
  -- specifically by international cooperation --
  while at the same time not being oversold via a
  never-ending series of grandiose pronouncements?

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1st Summit - Issues - 1of 5

• 1. Is international cooperation on digital
  libraries necessary, and why?
• 2. What are the truly important benefits of
  digital libraries and how might they be realized
  -- specifically by international cooperation --
  while at the same time not being oversold via a
  never-ending series of grandiose pronouncements?
• Reduce duplication, Increase cultural diversity,
  Ensure interoperability

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1st Summit - Issues - 2 of 5

• 3. What goals should be set for international
  cooperation? Who should set them? And how might a
  critical mass of effort be accumulated to make
  timely progress?
• 4. What organizational mechanisms are appropriate
  for fostering international cooperation? What
  other models of international cooperation have
  worked and not worked?

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1st Summit - Issues - 2 of 5

• 3. What goals should be set for international
  cooperation? Who should set them? And how might a
  critical mass of effort be accumulated to make
  timely progress?
• 4. What organizational mechanisms are appropriate
  for fostering international cooperation? What
  other models of international cooperation have
  worked and not worked?
• Increased communication , an IDL Reqt document,
  Exemplary efforts (multilingual, interoperable)

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1st Summit - Issues - 3 of 5

• 5. How will all the cooperating participants
  benefit -- so that the effort invested is a
  win-win for all?
• 6. What specific programs and projects should be
  undertaken, and how can these avoid fragmentation
  and oneupmanship?
• 7. How can results be achieved in graduated,
  incremental steps -- versus attempting the
  ever-deadly quantum leaps?

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1st Summit - Issues - 3 of 5

• 5. How will all the cooperating participants
  benefit -- so that the effort invested is a
  win-win for all?
• 6. What specific programs and projects should be
  undertaken, and how can these avoid fragmentation
  and oneupmanship?
• 7. How can results be achieved in graduated,
  incremental steps -- versus attempting the
  ever-deadly quantum leaps?
• Common problem, e.g., Digital preservation???
  Area disaster relief, environment, childrens
  stories, educ., DL2. Approach Internet/Web

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1st Summit - Issues - 4 of 5

• 8. What is a realistic time frame for achieving
  these goals so that unachievable expectations are
  not spawned in the first place? What might be
  demonstrable (and heartening) progress in the
  interim?
• 9. What level of government funding is needed?
  How should that funding be sourced? Among what
  objectives should that funding be allocated and
  how?

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1st Summit - Issues - 4 of 5

• 8. What is a realistic time frame for achieving
  these goals so that unachievable expectations are
  not spawned in the first place? What might be
  demonstrable (and heartening) progress in the
  interim?
• 9. What level of government funding is needed?
  How should that funding be sourced? Among what
  objectives should that funding be allocated and
  how?
• 5-10 years 5-10M/year Plans/milestones

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1st Summit - Issues - 5 of 5

• 10. How will the digital library paradigm be
  respectful of, but made part of, everyday
  activity -- especially across international
  boundaries?
• 11. What should be done next, following this
  Summit, and who will do it?

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1st Summit - Issues - 5 of 5

• 10. How will the digital library paradigm be
  respectful of, but made part of, everyday
  activity -- especially across international
  boundaries?
• 11. What should be done next, following this
  Summit, and who will do it?
• Ongoing projects inherently collaborative and
  widely used by large numbers in many countries
• Many nations funding of planning (,) meetings,
  development, operation, as well as basic research