Remodeling the Digital Library An eKnowledge Service Model

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Remodeling the Digital Library An e-Knowledge
Service Model

• Xiaolin Zhang
• Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Zhangxl_at_mail.las.ac.cn
• ETD 2005, Sydney, Australia

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 1. Background
• 2. Repurposing information services
• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• 4. Challenges and Current approaches

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 1. Background
• Basic contextWhere
• A research library system redefining its core
  contributions
• Chinese Academy of Sciences Library System
• 1 central Library, 4 regional libraries
• 85 institutional libraries over 24 cities cross
  China
• A digital library system repurposing for
  knowledge productivity
• Chinese Science Digital Library
• Collaborative digital resource systems
• Digital Mainstream resources
• Network-based integrated service platform
• Network given way of access

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• Chinese Science Digital Library

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Digital CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Support ST Innovation via E-Science
Infrastructure Support ST Research
Management by Academia Resource Planning
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Research Informatics Support knowledge
discovery from, and exploratory analysis of, info
Support trend analysis pattern tracking
of research development Support research on
research strategies, planning, and policies
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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 1. Background
• 2. Repurposing information services
• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• 4. Challenges and current approaches

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• Changing forces
• Digital information environment
• Ubiquitous availability of digital information
  changes user behaviors and needs, and shifts user
  perception of what is valuable and indispensable
  info services
• --August 2005 Survey of 2500 Researchers
• E-Science environment
• Ubiquitous representation of RD objects on the
  network
• Convergence of content, communities,
  communications, and research processes in digital
  network space
• --CAS Strategic Planning

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• Changing Assumptions
• The bottleneck in information productivity moves
  to sense-making, relations-mining,
  path-discovering, and solution-exploration in the
  sea of information
• The answer to research productivity depends more
  and more on research informatics to detect
  trends, gaps, niches, abnormities, opportunities,
  alternative paths, etc. to support research
  strategy decision making
• The e-research space provides promising
  capabilities for interactive exploration of
  dynamic relationships and patterns of all
  research objects for a research inquiry-centered
  and knowledge-intensive service approach

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• Changing Requirements
• What becomes critical and valuable in terms of
  information services is how to improve
  researchers abilities to analyze and discovery,
  and to support institutional capabilities for
  research decision-making and strategy planning,
  while still providing seamless information access
• What becomes prerequisite for tomorrows digital
  libraries is the ability to provide information
  analysis and knowledge discovery along research
  inquiry to support micro/macro research decision
  making, while embedding digital library services
  within these knowledge services

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• A paradigm shift in libraries/digital libraries
• Computer Science ? hardware software
• Computer Science computing applications
• Libraries/Digital Libraries
• From resource systems to knowledge systems

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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• A paradigm shift in libraries/digital libraries
• More thoughts on the paradigm shifts

What is a knowledge system? Knowledge as content
a massive store of passive info Knowledge as
content/context an application-driven info
platform embedded, interrelated, and
interacting with research inquiry
processes Knowledge as content/context/community
a digitally interactive knowledge inquiry
process with a dynamical community
What is knowledge? Knowledge is a thing Knowledge
is a flow Knowledge is an experience
What a knowledge process deal with? Content Contex
t Community
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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• Need for strategic visioning and planning

Siemens Corporate TechnologyPictures of the
FutureStrategic Visioning at Siemens, 2004
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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 2. Repurposing information services
• Need for strategic visioning and planning

Kumar, V. Innovation planning Models, Tools, and
Uses. 2003.10
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Remodeling the Digital Library

• 1. Background
• 2. Repurposing information services
• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• 4. Challenges and current approaches

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Many roads to Rome

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Many roads to Rome

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Many roads to Rome

• HeyHardin, J. Sakai Project Overview.
• Educause 2004.

• Seal R. The Information Commons new pathways to
  digital resources and knowledge management

InformationCommons
repository
classroom
lab
grid
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• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• A New E-Knowledge Model

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• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• A Subject E-Research Integration Platform

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• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• An Institutional Integrated Knowledge Platform

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• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• ST Research Informatics Platform

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Supporting with a research inquiry ontology
• An underlying semantic glue
• Knowledge-based description and organization of
  objects and their multi-faceted relationships
• Semantic and context-sensitive integration of
  various objects to provide personal and on-demand
  research spaces
• Interactively exploration, activation, fusion and
  management of various objects and services to
  build dynamic processes of research-workflow,
  collaboration, KD-oriented investigation, and
  knowledge management
• Interactively interoperation with other e-Science
  services

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Supporting with a research inquiry ontology
• An underlying semantic glue (cont.)
• Some Examples
• Alpdemir, N. et al. The myGrid Information Model
• People, teams, and organizations
• Study, program, and experiment
• Data and data types
• Provenance
• Annotations and argumentations
• CCLRC Scientific Metadata Model
• Study, Topic, Person/organization, Data/Datasets
• Scholarly Community Ontology
• Publication, Team/Person, Theme, Activity

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Supporting with a research inquiry ontology
• A Faceted Ontology Framework

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Supporting with a research inquiry ontology
• A Faceted Ontology Framework (cont.)

• Adopted from Prof. Nuehold Semantic Resource
  Network, in Context enhanced digital library
  services, ICADL 2004

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Supporting with a user-application oriented
  framework

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Remodeling the digital library

• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• Supporting with a service re-organization

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Remodeling the digital library

• 1. Background
• 2. Repurposing information services
• 3. Restructuring digital libraries
• 4. Challenges and current approaches

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Remodeling the digital library

• 4. Challenges and current approaches
• Technical improvement (the easier part?)
• Integration Frameworks
• SOA/WS, OGSA, CORDRA, JISC eFRamework
• Integration Technologies
• NISO MSI, IESR AP, Z39.50 SRW/U, OAIMHP, OpenURL
• Open Registry Network, Portlets, Appl components,
  BPEL4WS
• Semantic Technologies
• KOS/Ontology, OWL-S, Ontological Service Engines
• Ontology registry, Ontology mapping
• DM, KD, Collaborative KD

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Remodeling the digital library

• 4. Challenges and current approaches
• Service re-organizing
• Repurposing the service
• From resource building to integration system
  building
• From collection-based S/R/D to customer
  information reference services and analytic
  services
• From just information services to include
  research informatics

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Remodeling the digital library

• 4. Challenges and current approaches
• Organizational Re-structuring
• New ways to organize user-centered
  research-process-embedded service
• Customer service teams for key projects and
  institutes
• Integrated teams for resources, portals, systems,
  and services
• Collaborative team mechanisms to engaging
  researchers
• New emphasis on research informatics services
• New emphasis on building open integration
  platforms to multiple layers of resources and
  multiple sources of partners
• New mechanisms to organize the whole CAS library
  system
• One integrated resource platform also linking to
  others
• Five subject-based customer service and research
  informatics centers (regional libraries primarily
  no libraries)
• Multiple customer information service centers
  (for institutional libraries)

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Remodeling the digital library

• 4. Challenges and current approaches
• Human resource development challenges
• New competency structure for staff
• ST research knowledge
• analytical and research capabilities
• customer-driven, people-friendly,
  cooperation-based
• change-oriented, Innovation-friendly
• organizational skill, communicative skill
• self-motivated, excellence-driven, always
  learning
• New strategies for HRM

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Remodeling the digital library

• 4. Challenges and current approaches
• Current approaches
• Strategic planning and phased implementation
  plans
• CAS-wide library system re-purposing
• Library organizational re-structuring (together
  with job post system re-designing)
• Collaborations at various layers and aspects
• With NSTL and other national systems
• With e-Science
• With research institutes and researchers
• Targeted recruiting and staff re-training
• System development and advanced research efforts

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