Information Strategy of the University - a Vice President's View

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Information Strategy of the University - a Vice
President's View

• Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann
• Vice President
• Georg-August-University Göttingen

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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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• Initial situation
• Information supply is an essential infrastructure
  factor for
• research
• education and teaching
• Information supply as a factor of university
  competition

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• Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (state and
  university library) Göttingen
• Information supply for a full university
• Requirements of natural sciences
• Requirements of humanities
• Duties of the state library
• National and international information supply
• Completion and maintenance of traditional
  collections and preservation of the librarys
  cultural heritage

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Library Purchasing Expenditures
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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• E-Only information offerings
• Concepts of in-house publishing and utilization
  of print on demand
• Multimedia offerings
• Long-term archiving
• Digitization centres

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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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Electronic information supply
Download
Information portal
User
Print on Demand
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• Changes in the market for digital scientific
  journals
• Tendency towards oligopolies and monopolies on
  the supply side
• Rising prices
• It is necessary to increase market power on the
  demand side with cooperations

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• Consequences of electronic information supply
• Sophisticated billing solutions
• A multi-level library structure is no longer
  affordable and required
• New spatial requirements
• In-house publishing as a strategic option

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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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The Future of Scientific Publishing

• provision on the university's publication server
  by the library
• - access by internationally compatible metadata
• worldwide distribution- added value
  cross-linking

publication
production
printed traditional publications (books,
journals etc.)
texts in media neutral formats
e-publishing print-on-demand (e.g.
ProPrint) Göttingen University publication
server SUB WebDoc Server
scientific information media neutral multimedia
images

• video material

multimedia presentationsCD-ROM. Internet
presentations (exhibitions, guided tours)
- long-term archiving- assuring sustainability
E-learning applicationscourse modules, learning
platforms, didactic units
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ProPrint-Workflow
ProPrint
document server
ProPrint
print
a
ProPrint- DB search
order
b
combi-nation
c
research
A B C
delivery with invoice or pickup and cash payment
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The Pyramid of Publication
publications
university publisher
Intranet, Internet and print
scientific articles from the University
scientific articlesby publishing house
university printing
master theses
dissertations
ProPrint
teaching material
compilations of existing documents
learning material
media neutral publishingIntranet or
Internet and Print on Demand

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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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Multimedia lecture room
Transmission of the lecture

• Autoring on the fly
• Studio productions with animations

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Learning management system
Learning management system
Student
Teacher
Content Management
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• Multimedia service centres
• Competence development for teaching staff and
  students
• Provisioning of the technical infrastructure
• Media competence for students
• Advisory services for teaching staff
• Multimedia production

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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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• Digitization centre
• Mass digitization of scientific content
• High quality digitization of historical images
  and text documents
• Digitization of existing courseware

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• Long-term archiving
• Permanent access to the electronic information
• Cooperation between libraries and data processing
  centres
• Further developments necessary

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Long-term archiving
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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion

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applications third party funds
confe- rences
researchers
research data
teaching-management-system (TMS)
multimedia-service-point in SUB and natural
sciences library
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• Cooperation structures of the information service
  providers at Göttingen University

Executive board (Mgmt. BE IT, Mgmt. GWDG, Mgmt.
SUB) chair man
Advisory board Gö Chairman foundation board,
Mgmt. MPG, experts of international sites,
representatives of the user group
Steering committee (executive board BHMed, member
chair, executive board MPI)
Staff positions

• Project groups (project manager and members of
  all service facilities)
• permanent team structures
• temporary team structures

BE IT
SUB
GWDG
Sub centres, IT staff, departments/teams
External participants
Comprehensive projects
Comprehensive projects
Comprehensive projects
Special projects
Special projects
Core competencies
Core competencies
Core competencies
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• Technical and organisational consequences
• Cooperation of service providers and creation of
  new organisational structures
• New spatial requirements, in particular
  multimedia production and learning centres
• Changes to the library's business processes
• New requirements for the employees

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• Outline
• Initial situation
• Developments of supply and publication of
  information
• Examples
• Electronic information provisioning
• Publishing information
• Multimedia teaching and learning
• Digitization and long-term archiving
• Technical and organisational consequences of
  changing requirements
• Conclusion