Collaborative Collecting in Scotland

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Collaborative Collecting in Scotland

• Current state of play Conspectus, CATRIONA, RCO,
  CAIRNS, SCONE, SEED, CC-Interop, HaIRST - but
  mainly SPEIR
• IFLA 2003, Berlin
• Dennis Nicholson, Director,
• Centre for Digital Library Research,
• Glasgow, Scotland

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Additional Comment

• Scope of talk
• Collaborative collecting
• Mechanisms to support and facilitate
• Collection, Collection Strength metadata
• Use of this in collaborative collecting and user
  navigation and landscaping
• Acronyms
• A necessary evil
• Just labels for projects, groups
• Brief descriptions as we go
• URL at end for more information

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Scottish CC Timeline

• 1980s Conspectus exercise
• 1991 - BUBL, BUBL Subject Tree
• 1994 CATRIONA Model
• It is likely that internet opacs will be
  categorised according to their subject strengths
  and that users will be able to search for
  records of other opacs strong on a particular
  subject category
• 1995 RCO Conspectus-based web service
  guiding users to distributed subject collections
  individual web and telnet catalogues if
  available

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Scottish CC Timeline

• 1999 CAIRNS Z39.50 RCO and dynamic
  landscaping - cross-searching distributed
  subject collection landscapes
• 2000/02 SCONE and SEED SCONE collections
  service - Public Libraries - Conspectus
  alternatives embryonic SCAMP staff collections
  portal
• 2002/2004 CC-Interop (Riding Clone, Landscaping
  beyond Scotland, SCAMP development)

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Scottish CC Timeline

• 2002/05 HaIRST (OAI, SCAMP, collaborative
  collecting)
• 2003/04 SPEIR Draws the threads together
  within a pilot co-operative infrastructure
  Incorporates a collaborative Scottish Distributed
  Digital Library Recognises the key role of
  collection level description in collaborative
  collection management, resource discovery, portal
  management

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What is SPEIR?

• Some answers
• Scottish Portals for Education, Information, and
  Research
• Scots for to ask or to enquire
• Funded by the Scottish Library and Information
  Council as an adjunct to the Scottish Cultural
  Portal Pilot co-operative infrastructure to
  support this and other portals
• Backed by key players in Scotland through the
  Confederation of Scottish Mini-Cooperatives
  (COSMIC)

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SPEIR bits

• Build on CAIRNS, SCONE, SCAMP, dynamic
  landscaping HaIRST integration with CAIRNS
• Bring in Public Libraries, FE, Cultural Players
• Central support services for distributed portals
  particularly Scottish Cultural Portal but aim
  is generic support (GDL, NLS also one key here)
• Scottish Distributed Digital Library
• Collaborative cataloguing through Connexion
• Collaborative collecting through SCAMP
• CAIRNS, SCONE navigation

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SPEIR bits

• Dynamic landscaping of various kinds e.g. for
  different users, different badging
• Terminologies pilot requirements
• CoSMiC dimensions (groups)
• Interoperability Focus for Scotland
• Identification of digital and non-digital
  collections relevant to the Cultural Portal and
  SCONE
• Pilot for a more developed form of the current
  Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure

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Co-operative Infrastructure
Various user nodes
SCONE collections database with staff CCM
tools/ landscape control --- Future
SCAN integration?
CAIRNS cross searchable catalogue with
landscaping mechanism driven by collections datab
ase
COSMIC co-ordinates
Our Portal
various activities including
Other Portals
Metadata Issues Items, Collections
Joint RD Plan
So we can all join in
CORC
CCCG
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Projected Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure
Feb. 03
Various user nodes
Global links Cross domain Scone
SCAN Museums Resource JISC IE LOOK CERL
COSMIC co-ordination
Portal Support
Support Services
CAIRNS
CoSMiC Task Group
Interoperability Standards
Cultural Portal
SCONE
Connexion
HaIRST
Regional, Sectoral, SI Groups
GDL-like Portals
SDDL
SCAMP(2)
Pub-Lib Portals
Online LIS Support via SLAINTE/BUBL Mini-clump
Joint RD Plan
SCAMP(1)
etc Sapiens Authentication Terminologies
Scotslink WIDWISAWN
Other Portals
NLS
SLIC
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Why?

• Users increasingly use and need distributed
  resources and finding tools, so co-operation is
  now essential as well as desirable
• Distributed networked collections need
  collaborative management
• Coherent distributed virtual libraries wont
  just happen we must co-operate to manage
  retrieval and user environments
• Institutional and other boundaries are becoming a
  barrier to providing what users need

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Further Information

• CDLR Website Click on projects
• http//cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ or
• http//cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects.html
• My email address
• d.m.nicholson_at_strath.ac.uk