Standards and Cultural Sector Resource Sharing

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Standards and Cultural Sector Resource Sharing

• Standards New Zealand,
• National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
• 30 October 2007
• Committee IT-019
• Computer Applications Information and
  Documentation
• Geoff Payne,
• Director, Library Corporate and Financial
  Services,
• La Trobe University Library
• g.payne_at_latrobe.edu.au

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Committee IT-019 Computer Applications and
Documentation

• Formed 1992
• Initially focussed on standards for Libraries
• Interoperability between Libraries
• Context

Bibliographic Utilities running WLN software
Internet just emerging for email and file
transfers
Integrated Library management Systems, MARC,
Inter Library Loans Protocol
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Context today
Internet ubiquitous
Content spaces
User inhabited spaces
Libraries
Search Engines Google generic Google Scholar
Australian Research Discovery Service
Museums
Amazon eBay Facebook Myspace Youtube Flickr etc
Galleries
Archives
Publishers
Repositories
Learning Management Systems
E-Research Open Access publishing
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Challenges
E-Research data sets in the public domain for
re-use
User Authentication and authorisation as a
precursor to discovery

• Universal search protocol
• Infrastructure such as registries (akin to the
  National Union Catalogues role previously)

• Managing and Respecting ethical and legal
  constraints associated with any given data set
• e.g. Creative Commons

• Filtering the totality of searchable resources
• Metadata about collections
• Metadata about reuse rights
• Metadata management to permit use of collection
  specific metadata schemas by generic discovery
  tools
• Metadata about metadata schemata containing a
  field named Search argument
• Automatic metadata generation

Search engine harvesting as a precondition for
discovery
Facilitating E-Research, including switching
between discipline specific metadata schemata,
annotations and mashups
Search engines that respect user credentials to
present only metadata or content a user may access
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Responses to the challenges

• Keeping our collecting agencies connected to
  users
• Documenting use cases
• Modelling such as the e-framework
• Development of open source toolkits
• The subject of todays program