2 million users? 2 million libraries!

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2 million users?2 million libraries!

• The HeadLine PIE hybrid library model
• John Paschoud, HeadLine Project Manager, LSE
• www.headline.ac.uk
• The Future is Hybrid, British Library,
  01-Nov-2000

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What sort of Hybrid Library do users want?

• Different users want different things
• and there are 2 million HE users out there!
• Each user really wants a personal library
• ...with everything they want, and nothing they
  don't
• Let users discover resources, and they want
  access too!
• wherever they are
• Users often hunt in packs
• they learn collaboratively

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Web Portals

• What is a portal?
• Organised
• Mediated
• Configurable
• Access to a variety of materials
• Why are portals a useful model?
• Exemplify customisability and uniformity of Web
• Rapidly become most popular websites
• Customer loyalty - people tend to use just one

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and Hybrid Libraries

• What is a hybrid library?
• Organised
• Mediated
• Configurable
• Access to a variety of materials
• Obvious?

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The overall HeadLine model
LibraryUSERS
meeting ofResource with User
User Metadata
HeadLineDiscovery to AccessTools
HeadLinePersonal Information Environment (PIE)
(electronic) Resource Full-Content
Library Resources
Resource Metadata
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The HeadLine PIE
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What a User can do in the PIE

• Collection-building
• Discovery - Browsing
• Discovery - Searching
• of collection entries in the RDM
• within RDM collections (where accessible)
• Access
• Use-related metadata
• Full-content
• Interacting

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The PIE - architecture
RDM Edit Tools
RDM
librarian
OnlineResources
PIE-userinterface
RDMaccess
end-user
D-to-A Tools
PIE session profile
InstitutionalUserDirectory
AuthBroker
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How to maintain 2 million different library
collections

• The HeadLine Resource Data Model
• Structured Resources, Locations, Access
• Indirect links to actual resources
• Managing who can use what
• Supporting searches within collections
• Interoperability of the RDM
• Standard 'All Resources' lists from saved searches

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Beyond Personal Personalisation

• The concept of group information environments
• for departments, courses, friends...
• Sharing resource items
• Group discussion environment
• Threads searchable - like any other collection

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Installing a PIE for your library

• PIE is a single-library-service model
• but possibly with shared Resource data
• Entirely open components tools
• All developed packages available Jan 2001

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Extending the PIE model to serve the DNER

• Extending the RDM beyond library stuff
• to include 'directed' learning resources
• Scaleability
• Backend database (any SQL)
• Process distribution
• Portability
• Backend database (any SQL)
• Institutional directory service